Twenty-Nine Cheese Gnocchi at Home

Overview

Melburnians, you really love your cheese. You've tried a 150-cheese pizza, bought buckets of the stuff on the cheap and have entered cheese-fuelled comas in a cheese cave. Now, you can get your cheese fix in lockdown thanks to another ultra-cheesy experience: a 29-cheese gnocchi.

South Yarra's Cucinetta is the eatery behind the wondrous creation, which it's bringing back for a lockdown 2.0. This time, though, it's a little different. Instead of eating it in-store, you can order it as part of a pack to pick up every Sunday from July 19–August 16. For $99.99, you get four truffle and cheese arancini, two serves of the 29-cheese gnocchi (which you finish off in the oven yourself), a salad and two tiramisu. And only 29 packs are available each week.

The gnocchi in questions is handmade and comes with 29 cheeses sourced from Thomastown's That's Amore Cheese, including buffalo mozzarella, truffled caciotta (a fresh cow's milk cheese), smoked scamorza, blue cheese and salted ricotta.

To get your hands on this limited-edition pack, you'll need to preorder via the Cucinetta website.

If you, like us, fancy yourself a bit of a cheese fanatic, you're probably curious as to what the 29 cheeses are. Well, here's the full list:

Fior di latte
Buffalo mozzarella
Burrata
Scamorza bianca
Caciotta
Pepper caciotta
Chilli caciotta
Truffle caciotta
Ricotta delicata
Ricotta salata
Mascarpone
Squacquerone
Buffalo bocconcini
Buffalo ricotta
Buffalo caciotta
Buffalo mozzarella (smoked)
Smoked bocconcini
Smoked scamorza
Smoked caciocavallo
Diavoletto
Secret of The Forest
Drunken buffalo
Lavato
Panettone
Panettone with truffle
Caciocavallo
Bufalotto
Blue cheese
Formaggio di vacca

Cucinetta's 29-cheese gnocchi is available to pick up from 12–8pm every Sunday from July 19–August 16. Delivery is also available to select suburbs. You can preorder now.

If and when you do decide to head out to pick up food, remember to follow the Australian Government Department of Health's social distancing guidelines.