How to Preserve a Cheddar Cheese Wheel in Wax

Waxing cuts down on mold and putrefying bacteria’s access to cheese while it ages, and it also prevents cheese from drying out too much. I put off trying waxing as long as I could simply because I didn't want to use wax. And until we had a cow, we could keep up with the cheeses I made from ou

Here's how to store your cheddar collection. [Photograph: steve p2008 on Flickr] More Cheese 10 Things That Make a Great Cheese Shop » All About Cheese Knives » All Serious Cheese coverage » I've had a number of SE'ers here ask for my advice on storing cheese, and luckily it's not too hard to keep your cheese happy until it's consumed. I've got a particular wrapping technique for cheese storage that I hope everyone will find useful. When I worked as a cheesemonger, we always advised our customers never to store their cheeses in direct contact with plastic, and not to wrap them too tightly. There's some science behind this, as kitchen scientist extraordinaire Harold McGee writes in his...
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This blog has moved. Please visit us at www.preparednesspro.com.   Well, at least those of us who are addicted to cheese anyway.  Can you name at least 10 different kinds of cheese that you love? Do you believe that cheese should be its own food group? Are you helpless to abide by your diet unless…

This blog has moved. Please visit us at www.preparednesspro.com. By Kellene Bishop It’s interesting what a seemingly innocuous sounding sentence can do.  Apparently the phrase “you can wax your own cheese and store it” is a vile enough claim to cause some to turn on their evil buttons. Oh the controversy. But the problem is that…