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How to store cheese
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Poppy9
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How do you store your cheese to enjoy at its best. I am talking hard cheeses here like cheddar. I used to wrap in foil and keep in fridge but someone recomended using a tupperware tub so I have moved to this. I find though that moisture builds up in tub. Also I hate my cheese too cold so I have to remember to take it out of the fridge an hour before eating.
Is it safe to keep it out of the fridge permanently?
Is it safe to keep it out of the fridge permanently?
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OK, here goes ...My name is Magentasue and I am an alc ... a Lakeland customer.
I've already confessed once on here that I have a cheese box that retails for £13 at Lakeland. I know, I should be ashamed to even show my face here ... and I'm no better now. Now I'm after an overpriced tin box for my bread ...
Anyway, the cheese box cost me something like a fiver ten years ago. It was about £8 then and I found one on the Bargain shelf. It's a plastic box with a mesh bit on the top so you don't have to use greaseproof paper or foil, all hard cheese keeps perfectly in it. I've seen them on ebay and I'd thoroughly recommend them.0 -
As for me...
..I saw this TV chef who was absolutely adamant that we should all take that delicious gorgeous crafted cheese and give it the respect it deserves and wrap it in FOIL.
Well yah boo sucks to him!
I'd washed my hands before handling food, and I took care because you know what us blokes can be like
and I couldn't darn well squeeze the cheese out of the wrapper without giving it a helping hand unfortunately.
Within two days I had mould BELTING OUT of every place I'd touched it.
I'd have been far better off just leaving it alone.
Harumph!
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Ooooooh no, it needs to be kept chilled.Poppy9 wrote:Is it safe to keep it out of the fridge permanently?
Did you know - when hard cheeses develop a mould on the outside, you can slice off the mouldy bits and the cheese is still ok to eat? (Don't flame me, I *know* this to be true because I used to work in a well known store in London and we used to do that all the time
+ .... me mum used to do it too )
I've never been successful keeping my hard cheese in a tub in the fridge; I just tuck the ends of the packet it came wrapped in over the exposed bits and it seems to keep pretty well.
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Gosh Queenie don't you ever sleep?
I know I don't - but I've got an excuse
Actually in many instances the er , mould thingies (mycelleum is it?) normally go quite deep and it's only the top little bits that we see.
But you're right - chop the 'orrible stuff off and eat the rest. That's what I do and, clearly, so do you.
Works for cheese no problem. Doesn't work for chicken! Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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Hi, Having tried several methods, I have to say that good old cling film keeps it the best. It's airtight and it keeps much longer.
Like Queenie, I too cut off any mould that may appear, but in cling film, see much much less of it. :cool:
Good about washing your hands, a when my teen lads have used the stuff, it's dirty fingerprints that I need to hsave off - little devils! :mad:I ave a dodgy H, so sometimes I will sound dead common, on occasion dead stupid and rarely, pig ignorant. Sometimes I may be these things, but I will always blame it on my dodgy H.
Sorry, I'm a bit of a grumble weed today, no offence intended ... well it might be, but I'll be sorry.0 -
absolutely true,I keep mine in the original wrapping ........in the salad drawer of the fridge and take out half hour before I want to eat it so it's not so cold.Queenie wrote:
Did you know - when hard cheeses develop a mould on the outside, you can slice off the mouldy bits and the cheese is still ok to eat?0 -
Hi traf :wave:
When all is said and done cheese is made by one or more bacteria or fungie type type things. So what's one more? Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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gravitytolls wrote:Hi, Having tried several methods, I have to say that good old cling film keeps it the best. It's airtight and it keeps much longer.
Like Queenie, I too cut off any mould that may appear, but in cling film, see much much less of it. :cool:
Good about washing your hands, a when my teen lads have used the stuff, it's dirty fingerprints that I need to hsave off - little devils! :mad:
I was just going to say that I find cling film the worst thing to keep cheese in? makes it a bit sweaty and find it goes off more quickly? Shouldn't you use greaseproof paper type stuff if wrapping??
But wot am I to know?;)
JT x
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I refer the Honourable Questioner to my previous answer.
From varied to bitter experience I have learned that cheese that you wish to enjoy in some state closely relating to that in which you first purchased it should be left strictly alone in its original packaging.
Yes it sweats in plastic, over time... so if you don't like it sweating don't buy quite so much at a time (I regard cheese as a short term consumable - like half a pound a night is a naughty but delicious snack) and keep it as "original".
I have to admit that I like the way cheese was sold "in the old days" but can't find it locally any more. So the above is the best way I've found to manage the cheese I can reach.
Sorry I can't help you more. But you know... in this place... somebody will be along shortly who CAN... Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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I usually keep mine in original wrap and put in a tupperware tub in the fridge. Not good to leave cheese out as it goes all sweaty and slimy, yuk!!!!!!!!“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” - Oscar Wilde0
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