How do you keep your cheese?

[Orang Utan]

I get it - cling film doesn't let ANY moisture out at all, so it gets slimy cos there's nowhere for excess moisture to escape to. With cheesecloth or greaseproof paper, some of the moisture is absorbed but not so much that it dries out

 

[ChrisFilter]

I get it - cling film doesn't let ANY moisture out at all, so it gets slimy cos there's nowhere for excess moisture to escape to. With cheesecloth or greaseproof paper, some of the moisture is absorbed but not so much that it dries out

Exactamundo

 

[Spion]

I get it - cling film doesn't let ANY moisture out at all, so it gets slimy cos there's nowhere for excess moisture to escape to. With cheesecloth or greaseproof paper, some of the moisture is absorbed but not so much that it dries out

OK, that makes sorta sense. I'll try it if i ever have a dry cheese situation

 

[Maggot]

Na, parmesan is ok after being frozen. Not exactly recommended, but it stays in relatively good nick.

I feel vindicated!

 

[boing!]

little re-sealable sandwich bags. you do get that slightly slimy thing, but its ok for your standard cheddars and stuff. anything nicer than that doesn't last long enough to think about wrapping it up properly.

 

[gentlegreen]

What I want to know is how to make Camembert go all stinky and runny like I remember from France in '76.

I bought some unpasteurised from Waitrose and left it out for days and it was still bland

 

[wtfftw]

What I want to know is how to make Camembert go all stinky and runny like I remember from France in '76.

I bought some unpasteurised from Waitrose and left it out for days and it was still bland

Put it in the microwave.

That's a guess btw. I want someone to try it before I do. Usually I'd just leave the cheese out but our mice troubles have put an end to that.


We stick cheese in a tupperware box in the fridge.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

I have a proper hippy sweat shop for keeping blue cheese in and a proper hippy larder for keeping mountain cheeses in. I don't allow goats milk cheeses into my stores - they stink and taste rotten.

I keep dolcelatte in my top box because it's my favourite.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Unwrapped in the fridge? Wrapped in the fridge? What with? Or do you keep it in a container? Or are you a posho with a pantry or a larder?

In the fridge, in its original packaging. We eat cheese so fast it doesn't really matter.

 

[ScallyWag II]

Think of the planet.


cling film is a terrible waste of plastic. Tupperware or bowl covered with a plate will do, if you have a compartment in your fridge that would be fine. Use what the cheese came wrapped in instead of killing our planet you fascist.

i keep cheese in its wrapper and then in a plastic bag (normally from the supermarket) which i wash when the cheese is finished and then reuse for keeping something else in the fridge

some of my morrisons bags have been washed so many times they only have a tiny trace of the M logo on them

 

[Fizz_gig]

i keep cheese in its wrapper and then in a plastic bag (normally from the supermarket) which i wash when the cheese is finished and then reuse for keeping something else in the fridge

Same here... Lasts for well over a week!

 

[Stig]

Ideally, in greaseproof paper, in a paper bag, in the cellar.

in actual reality, in the big cheese box in the fridge.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I've got a cheese celler.



I want to make my own cheese, how do you suggest I start?

 

[Juice Terry]

I've got a cheese celler.



I want to make my own cheese, how do you suggest I start?

Buy a cow?

 

[DRINK?]

Good thread I have a problem with my cheese at the moment phnarr phnaar

Currently keep in wrapping in a lock up tupperware thingy though seems to get incredibely soggy, i.e every day have to leave it out on the side, cheese doesn't last long in our house at the best of times though defo need something that enables breathing.....


mmmmmh cheese, currently imagining the gorgeous jarlsberg and some awesome gruyare ( sp ) ...on a more disappointing note someone gave me some white stilton???....rubbish, crumbly and white and nothing like stilton at all

 

[ChrisFilter]

Yeah, nasty innit. Like that horrible fruit stilton people seem to think is posh bleurgh.

 

[Dubversion]

under my foreskin.







(well, come on people, 45 posts and nobody's made that gag yet. What's WRONG with you? )

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

We are not children. This is a serious thread about a rather serious business

 

[Dubversion]

poo bum willy fart wank

 

[Mogden]

poo bum willy fart wank

That's precisely what Flashman does when I ask him to add whatever else we need to our shopping list.

 

[DRINK?]

under my foreskin.







(well, come on people, 45 posts and nobody's made that gag yet. What's WRONG with you? )

i did alude to it...peurile chap that I am

 

[Pieface]

Yeah, nasty innit. Like that horrible fruit stilton people seem to think is posh bleurgh.

fruit in any cheese is fucked. I don't get it - I keep finding shitty apricot and berries in cheese these days - what is wrong with people?!!!

My cheese consumption has fallen greatly in the past 2 years, which is probably good for my arse. I still love it but can't be arsed to buy it much anymore.....

 

[May Kasahara]

That's precisely what Flashman does when I ask him to add whatever else we need to our shopping list.

What, all at once? Ewwww.

Anyway, I like that Stilton with cranberries in it

 

[maya]

In one of those round wooden trays with a glass dome on top... What's that called again? Uh...

 

[Mogden]

What, all at once? Ewwww.

Nah that would be more like my behaviour Still, wandering round town for the shopping I do find myself chuckling at badly doodled breasts, profanity and schoolboy terms for rudey bits

Back on topic a bit, I'm not adverse to fruity cheese as long as it's done properly. That white stilton with apricots or cranberries often seems to be an excuse to sell bad cheese at an inflated price cos you've put some sweet stuff in it.

 

[maya]

The brie just goes in the fridge...