Cheese preservers

mhoc

I quite liked the idea of buying a Tefal Cheese Preserver from Lakeland plastic but thought that they were too expensive, now they are even more expensive and even the filters are over £3.

I quite like buying and trying little bits of local and speciality cheese from our Tesco, usually reduced but as I am the main cheese eater I usually have more cheese than I really eat. Hence the need for some way of preserving the cheese before it gets mouldy!

Anyone have any ideas or are these things so wonderful I might as well treat myself?

Mary

Curry_Queen

Contamination is one of the main things that turns cheese mouldy, and I'm like you in that I'm the only one to eat different varieties, although DS will sample them, so what I do is never handle them with bare hands (cut or grate it holding it in original wrapper) and then wrapping the whole package in extra cling film or a small freezer bag to keep the air out.

I find cheese will last for months this way and any signs of mould I just chop it off and eat the rest of the cheese

Curry_Queen

Contamination is one of the main things that turns cheese mouldy, and I'm like you in that I'm the only one to eat different varieties, although DS will sample them, so what I do is never handle them with bare hands (cut or grate it holding it in original wrapper) and then wrapping the whole package in extra cling film or a small freezer bag to keep the air out.

I find cheese will last for months this way and any signs of mould I just chop it off and eat the rest of the cheese

Curry_Queen

Sorry about the multiple post but this site is playing silly buggers again and has been in a state of suspended animation for the past 5-10 mins for me :mad:




PS - it was actually longer than 10 mins judging by the time difference on the posts above :mad:

squeaky

For me too. I've been playing bookworm while waiting for each page to load. I'll be interested to see what comes up for cheese preservers

Magentasue

I have one of these - I used to lurk by the bargain shelf in Lakeland, still do if I can lose my minders - and highly recommend them. Don't think I would have considered one at full price but, if I were to be without mine, I'd go straight out and get another. Nothing else I've seen keeps different cheeses so well without clingfilm, foil, greaseproof etc. Have had mine years, it's the old model without disposable filters.

Bogof_Babe

I'm intrigued - I've never heard of them. I keep our boring piece of cheddar in a free plastic box that I got on a promotion some years ago in Sainsbury's, filled with a selection of cheeses. (I mean the box was free - obviously the contents weren't!). I line it with kitchen paper to absorb the moisture that seems to form when it is refrigerated, and it keeps quite well.

Before that I had a sequence of two Lakeland plastic cheese/cold meat boxes, but the lids kept breaking off as they were rigid plastic. I gave up on them then - don't know if they've been improved to make them more durable.

I was just wondering whether those green plastic bags that you can get for making veg and salads last longer, might be any good for cheese.

That's a good point about not touching the cheese when grating - gets a bit awkward when you are down to the last bit though. It's one of those jobs I always feel I need three hands for!

squeaky

There's a rotary cheese grater you can buy from argos that I use. No need to touch the cheese at all. Cut a chunk off, use the knife point to pick it up and put it in the grater. Easy peasy. I'll go look...

Trow

Bogof_Babe wrote:

That's a good point about not touching the cheese when grating - gets a bit awkward when you are down to the last bit though.

I'm not sure that it matters so much when you are down to the last bit....

squeaky

True - but anyway, it's listed under "3 drum mill" Here

Bogof_Babe

squeaky wrote:

There's a rotary cheese grater you can buy from argos that I use. No need to touch the cheese at all. Cut a chunk off, use the knife point to pick it up and put it in the grater. Easy peasy. I'll go look...

Would that be a "mouli" grater? (Not sure if that's a trade name or a description). My parents have one - they've had it about 50 years and it works well, but oh the cleaning and reassembling afterwards! Give me a basic flat one any time.

Trow - true!