Posted on 02/08/2014 12:42:45 PM PST by SamAdams76
Cheese storage is one of those confounding subjects. If you buy a really nice cheese, you don't want to ruin it with a lack of parenting skills, right? Perhaps you know how you shouldn't store cheese. But do you know how you should? Proper preservation of cheese is easier than you think.The first thing to know: DO NOT store your cheese in plastic wrap! Wrapping cheese directly in plastic is the equivalent of flavor suffocation. Cheese is a living, breathing thing, and closing it off to air is just about the worst thing you can do to it. Plus, plastic wrap has a taste, and it takes just a day for that flavor to start making its way into the face of the cheese.
The best way to store your cheese is in cheese paper. The next best thing (and probably the easier way) is to wrap your cheese first in parchment or waxed paper, and then loosely in plastic wrap or a plastic baggie. This method provides a bit of breathability for the cheese without it drying out.
• Place the parchment or waxed paper flat on your counter with the wedge on top, and then bring the edges of the paper up and around the cheese, creasing as you go to make neat, clean folds. You can use tape to secure if you'd like.
• Label the paper with the cheese variety and date.
• A loose plastic wrap or a plastic bag over the paper generally keeps things tight (and keeps out fridge odors).
• Keep your cheese in the warmest part of the refrigerator, like in your cheese or vegetable drawer. An even better method is to designate a large tupperware container as your cheese home, where all of your cheese pieces can live.
• But don't forget about your cheese once it's in your refrigerator! Ideally, you should buy as much cheese as you think you'll consume in one to two sittings. Try bringing home small quantities more often so that so that you don't have to store it, since home refrigeration preys on those uneaten, forgotten wedges.
Back in the 70’s, I think, somebody gave us part of a block of government cheese that they were distributing. That was some good cheese. I think what made it so good was it had aged in a warehouse for a long time. Now that cheese comes wrapped in plastic I don’t think it ages.
You don’t store cheese. You eat it!
My dog just cut the cheese.
That sounds series.
Seriously?
“My dog just cut the cheese”.
STOP blaming the dog.. we know it was YOU! :)
lol always loved that sketch
Yes, I suspect that this article is meant for foodies who buy their cheese at Pike Place Market, not the Kraft Singles crowd or people who buy it at Target. The only really nice cheese I get on a regular basis is ungrated Parmesan, which I love to grate myself. Maybe I will start storing it in paper.
Once in a great while, as a special treat, I buy cheese at the farmers market made by someplace in Snohomish WA, I think. That is out of this world.
I’d like to buy some CHEESE!
“WILL YOU SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI UP!?”
I love cheese.
LOL!
“Moe, Larry, the cheese!!!”
Interesting. I’d never heard of it and am quite the cheese lover/consumer. I’ve always just wrapped my cheese in paper towel before putting in plastic. I don’t remember if I read that somewhere, sometime, or if it was just intuitive.
Does it work on Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?
LMAO!
-PJ
Horace Walpole’s ‘Rogue Cheddar’, (sniff) one of the first of the Cheese Westerns to be later followed by ‘Gunfight at Gruyere Corral’, ‘Ilchester 73’, and ‘The Cheese Who Shot Liberty Valence’.
LOLOLOLO! Good one!
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