Bubblingbrooks
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Cheese Cave anyone?
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TanksHill
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I love it!!! It seems the room would need an outside wall to accommodate the AC. I wonder if that's how theirs is set up. The cheese looked great! Yum!
patandchickens
Crazy Cat Lady
I wish. I've been using my basement, which is a) skanky and b) a bit on the warm side, and have lost about half the cheeses I made last spring. Or maybe I am doing something wrong, I dunno, but it is annoying. I do wish I had a better place to store/age them!
Pat
Pat
freemotion
Food Guru
I have a second fridge that I use but if the cheese needs moisture I put it into a plastic shoe box, lifted up on a bit of that florescent fixture ice cube tray stuff cut to fit, and a bit of mat cut to fit, and put that into the fridge.
Pat, I've lost a few waxed cheeses to black and red mold, if that is the case with you, take comfort that you are not the only one! I think there is a learning curve in waxing and always a chance that the wrong mold spore is already in the cheese, since it sits out for a few days before waxing.
I had two cheeses, exactly the same recipe made a week apart, one got mold under the wax and the other is still perfect. The moldy one was still delicious once thick slices were taken off the outside. That is not always the case, though, I've had 4 lb wheels that were musty to the core.
Most are good, though.
Pat, I've lost a few waxed cheeses to black and red mold, if that is the case with you, take comfort that you are not the only one! I think there is a learning curve in waxing and always a chance that the wrong mold spore is already in the cheese, since it sits out for a few days before waxing.
I had two cheeses, exactly the same recipe made a week apart, one got mold under the wax and the other is still perfect. The moldy one was still delicious once thick slices were taken off the outside. That is not always the case, though, I've had 4 lb wheels that were musty to the core.
Most are good, though.
CrimsonRose
Lovin' The Homestead
wow that is SOOOOOOOOO awesome!!!! I want one now... hahaha but I think it best if I master the mozzarella first... mine crumbles instead of getting stringy... but is tastes amazing so I don't care... 
TanksHill
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I watched a couple other you tube videos on cheese caves. Did you see the man who said he dusted his waxed cheese with DE? He said it kept away the cheese mites. I thought that was cool.
I am not making cheese until I have a lactating animal. It's just to darn expensive.
I am not making cheese until I have a lactating animal. It's just to darn expensive.
ohiofarmgirl
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that is SO cool! wow!
