Are you ready to take a bite out of National Hamburger month? Come celebrate this scrumptious occasion with us at your local grocery for our second Golden Ticket event!

The hamburger is indeed quite the cause for celebration. Imagine a warm day in May and you just sat down to enjoy a delicious, juicy hamburger right off the grill. The bun has been perfectly toasted with a thin layer of rich Tillamook Butter and topping the patty is a perfectly melted slice of award winning Tillamook Medium Cheddar. Or if you’d like to add a little spice to your life you could also decorate your hamburger with some of our Pepper Jack Cheese! Those sweet peppers and jalapeños might be the perfect kick to make your hamburger extra spectacular. But, don’t let us tell you what to do, pick out your favorite loaf and make your very own hamburger!

Want to win a free loaf for that hamburger? On May 18th at select stores in Sacramento and San Antonio, we’ll be hiding tickets every hour around various items related to hamburgers. If you are the lucky winner who finds one of the tickets in store you may redeem a coupon for a free loaf of any Tillamook Cheese your heart desires! However, that’s the just the beginning! If you find a golden ticket you will also be entered to win a year’s supply of Tillamook Cheese! Imagine all the cheesy creations that you could make with a years’ supply of cheese!

If you want a slice of all this cheesiness, check the Loaf Love Tour schedule to find out which store is nearest to you on this special day. We look forward to see you then!

Post by Elisa of the West Team!

By Tillamook

We’re happy to welcome a brand new cheddar to the Tillamook Family – Vintage White Sharp Cheddar! This cheddar is rich, full flavored, and naturally aged for 9 months to give you just the slightest bite. Give it a try at your next wine and cheese party, or in your next batch of mac and cheese!

Look for our new Vintage White Sharp Cheddar in stores soon, but buy it online now in the Tillamook Shop! In honor of Cheese Lover’s Day, enter to win a Big Cheese Gift Box by emailing fans@tillamook.com to tell us the first dish you’ll cook with this new cheese! Hurry and enter before January 31.*

*Official Rules

Email us at fans@tillamook.com to tell us the first dish you’ll make with this cheese!

By Katie

My absolute favorite part of our new website is the Tillamook Kitchen. It’s filled with amazing recipes – truly unique sandwiches and more – from chefs at three of our Tillamook-loving partner restaurants: The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen, Bunk Bar, and the Grilled Cheese Truck. These chefs were cooking with Tillamook before we even met them!

I have to admit, I’m not much of a cook… but I do love trying new food! The best part about these recipes is that they’re not overly-complicated, but they’re still unique and creative. They’re definitely not your mom’s PB&J (please don’t tell your mom I said that!).

The Tillamook Kitchen even has video recipes to coach you along. They feature our partner chefs preparing their tasty masterpieces while they divulge some of their helpful chef secrets. These videos are inspiring – they make me feel like even I can melt some sandwich magic. I seriously can’t wait to try them all.

We want you to try them, too! During the next two weeks, we’re holding a “Make, Review, Win Tillamook!” contest. All you have to do is make one of these delicious recipes, write a review on our website, and you could win a free Tillamook Baby Loaf Love gift box!

Here’s how to enter:

1. Between February 14 – February 25, visit the Tillamook Kitchen on our new website.

2. Browse our new recipes and pick any one of them that you’d like to try.

3. Gather ingredients and start cooking!

4. Eat what you whipped up (best part).

5. Review – An area to write a review for the recipe you made is located at the bottom of each recipe page.

6. At 5 p.m. on Friday, February 25, come back to the Loaf Life Blog to see if you’ve won and find out how to claim your prize.

All entries must be received before noon on Friday, February 25. You can review as many different recipes as you’d like!

Each person who writes a recipe review will be automatically entered into a random drawing to receive a free Tillamook Baby Loaf Love gift box! We’ll select 10 winners total and announce them on the Loaf Life Blog on Friday, February 25, before 5pm. Tune in on this date to see if you’ve won and to find out how to get your free Baby Loaf Love gift box!

Contest Official Rules

By Loafy

Here’s a recap of all the Scavenger Hunt questions and answers:

Day 11) Who owns Tillamook?
Answer: Farmers (or: farmer-owners, Tillamook County Creamery Association, TCCA)

2) How many pounds of cheese does Tillamook make each day?
Answer: 167,000

3) Partner chef Tommy Habetz of Bunk Bar has a preferred way to eat the Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Sandwich – what’s his method?
Answer: Squeeze the yolk out to soak up all the goodness!

Day 21) Tillamook products are made from milk from cows not treated with ____ ____ ____ (3 words).
Answer: Artificial growth hormones*

2) What comes atop the 38 Flavor Ice Cream Tour at the Tillamook Cheese Factory?
Answer: A flag

3) Freezing Tillamook Cheese prolongs its life, but it also changes the texture, making it ____ and ____.
Answer: Dry and crumbly

Day 31) What are the 5 values of Tillamook?
Answer: Quality, Cooperation, Integrity, Stewardship, Responsiveness

2) Which Tillamook Cheese has a “New Taste”?
Answer: Monterey Jack

3) What does partner chef Heidi Gibson from The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen use to mince rosemary for the Piglet Sandwich?
Answer: A coffee grinder

Day 41) What is our current Featured Flavor Ice Cream?
Answer: Cinnamon Banana Bliss

2) What is a Cheddarmaster?
Answer: A machine that separates curd from whey

3) Can you find Tillamook Ice Cream in Southern California? If so, where?
Answer: Yes, at Winco

Day 51) Which two Tillamook Yogurt flavors are now available in larger 32 oz containers?
Answer: Vanilla Bean and Naturally Plain

2) A historical Tillamook Cheese Advertisement from February 23, 1928 claims that “Tillamook cheese increases ____ _____ ____” (3 words).
Answer: Resistance against illness

3) What ingredient does partner chef Dave Danhi of the Grilled Cheese Truck put on the bread used in the Pepperbelly Melt to “cut the heat for sandwiches that cook longer” (i.e., might easily burn).
Answer: Mayonnaise (or: a mix of mayonnaise and butter, but mayonnaise is key)

*Please note that the FDA has stated that no significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rBST treated and non-rBST treated cows.

Image courtesy of dougwoods

By Loafy

The answers to yesterday’s Scavenger Hunt questions are:

Now on to today’s questions…

1) What is our current Featured Flavor Ice Cream?

2) What is a cheddarmaster?

3) Can you find Tillamook Ice Cream in Southern California? If so, where?

Please note that your comment won’t be immediately visible to the public – only to Tillamook staff – until today’s Scavenger Hunt has ended. If you need a reminder on how to participate, see this blog post.

Thanks for playing!

By Loafy

Tillamook.com Scavenger Hunt Questions: Day 3

1) What are the 5 values of Tillamook?

 2) Which Tillamook Cheese has a “New Taste”?

3) What does partner chef Heidi Gibson from The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen use to mince rosemary for the Piglet Sandwich? (hint: you may have to watch a video!)

Please note that your comment won’t be immediately visible to the public – only to Tillamook staff – until today’s Scavenger Hunt has ended. If you need a reminder on how to participate, see this blog post.

Have fun!

Photo courtesy of lowjumpingfrog

By Loafy

Now for today’s questions…

Tillamook.com Scavenger Hunt Questions: Day 2

1) Tillamook products are made from milk from cows not treated with _____ ______ _____.

2) What comes atop the 38 Flavor Ice Cream Tour at the Tillamook Cheese Factory?

3) Freezing Tillamook Cheese prolongs its life, but it also changes the texture, making it ____ and _____.

If you need a reminder on how to participate, see this blog post.

Remember: Your comment won’t be visible to the public – only to Tillamook staff – until the Scavenger Hunt has ended. Good luck and happy scavenging!

Photo courtesy of Andy Hay

By Loafy

Here’s how to play:

1. Visit our Loaf Life blog each day at 10 a.m (PST). Look for the newest post titled “Tillamook.com Scavenger Hunt: Day 1” (or Day 2, 3, 4, or 5… depending on the day).

2. After reading the new questions each day, find their answers somewhere on Tillamook.com. The answer to each question can be located on the website. You may just have to search for a while… but that’s the fun of a scavenger hunt!

3. Come back to that day’s blog post and leave a comment on the blog post with your answers. Your comment won’t be visible to the public – only to Tillamook staff – until the Scavenger Hunt has ended.

Of those who provide the correct answers to the Tillamook.com Scavenger Hunt, we’ll randomly select a new winner each day (February 7 – February 11). Winner will be announced on the Loaf Life Blog the following week day.

Play before 11:59 p.m. (PST) on the day that the blog is posted to qualify to win!

And now to get to the fun part… today’s questions!

Tillamook.com Scavenger Hunt Questions: Day 1

1. Who owns Tillamook?

2. How many pounds of cheese does Tillamook make each day?

3. Partner chef Tommy Habetz of Bunk Bar has a preferred way to eat the Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Sandwich – what’s his method? (hint – you may have to watch a video!)

Official Contest Rules

Photo courtesy of rightee

By Loafy

What year did Tillamook first make ice cream? When is National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month? How many pounds of fresh milk arrive at the Tillamook Cheese Factory each day? If  you tested your Cheese IQ this week, you probably know the answers to all of these questions, plus more!

To celebrate the new Tillamook.com, we invited fans to test their Cheese IQ every day this week for the chance to win a tasty Tillamook Cheese gift box. Congratulations to our winners: Beth Simmons, Serena Van Vranken, and Lori Miller (plus two more people we’re waiting to hear back from).  Thanks for testing your Cheese IQ! You can now brag about your status as a Tillamook Cheese turophile.

For those of you who didn’t win this week, don’t worry! You can still come back to test your Cheese IQ every month. After today, we’ll pick a monthly winner who will receive a Tillamook Cheese gift box.

We hope you had fun playing the Cheese IQ Quiz! We created it with our cheesiest fans in mind.

By Loafy