Cheese whisps are little, crunchy bites of cheese. The company is American and promotes that it uses fresh milk that is sourced locally. And it is just cheese – 100% cheese. We have these at our grocery stores in Canada, so I’ve tried a couple of the more common flavours: parmesan and tomato basil.
The Cheese Whisps Experiment
So, I went into this experiment looking for a substitute for chips. Whisps are not that. They are crunchy, which is nice! They are also salty. But they have a very strong taste. To bust into a bag and just eat a bunch of them as a snack really is not for me. I wanted desperately to have a substitute for the chips I used to eat before I went on keto, but that’s not really fair to the product. They never claim to be the keto chips.
I have seen recipes on keto websites for using cheese as a chip. You bake it and then dip it into salsa or a ranch dressing. I’ve never been a big fan of that either. When I bake cheese, it kind of turns out limp. There is no crunch like there is in, say, a nacho chip. It also brings the saltiness out of the cheese, and I find that quite strong. So, I’m not sure why I was thinking Whisps would be more like potato chips. I guess I was just hoping. As I said before, they do have the crunch and I do enjoy that!
Known Information on Cheese Whisps
When I went on their website, they have a page of recipes and suggest using Whisps in a salad (almost like a crouton). They also have the idea of crushing up some of them and using them as a coating for zucchini. I bet you could do that for fish or chicken as well. Now we’re talking! I bought a bag of the tomato basil ones recently and I think I might try some chicken, dipped in egg and coated with the Whisps. That sounds really good!
I have to say, I really enjoyed their website. I’m a sucker for “dad” jokes, or I guess in this case, “cheesy” jokes, and they have a few. One of them is:
What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?
Nacho cheese!
Hee, hee, hee. They have a few more too, so if you like the “cheesy” humour, go on and have a giggle.
Not All You Can Eat, But Close
You can eat quite a few of these little morsels. Half of a bag of the parmesan has only 150 calories, 10 grams of fat, 1 gram of carbs and 13 grams of protein. Half a bag of the tomato basil has 150 calories, 11 grams of fat, 1 gram of net carbs (taking away the fiber count) and 12 grams of protein. And why wouldn’t they be good for keto? They are just cheese!
Overall, I think I will find a good use for Whisps. I set them up for failure when I first tried them because I wanted them to be something they weren’t, and something they didn’t claim to be. Now that I know what they actually are and how they taste, I’m going to try them in my salad and on my chicken. I’ll let you know how that goes!
Wendy
