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Storing cheese at home
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Learn how to keep your cheese at home and enjoy it for longer...

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Details: Written by Rachel Cummins (with info taken from Rick Stein's Food Heroes Book)

Unfortunately, I cannot (yet) proclaim to be an expert in keeping cheese, so I have borrowed the advice provided in Rick Stein's Food Heroes book. He, in turn, got the advice from the Specialist Cheesemakers Association. My version is abridged.

If you are anything like me, you are prepared to put a bit of effort in to keep your cheese fresh. You probably use foil, cling film or similar to wrap around it once in the fridge. I also save waxy paper from the good cheese shops to transfer any cheese I might have bought from less specialist places (slap my hands) into, which I think works really well. But according to the experts, what is the best way to keep cheese at home?

These are the basics:

Wrapping cheeses
*Hard and blue cheeses (parmesan, cheddar etc) are relatively tolerant of plastic or vacuum wrapping, but soft cheeses (brie, goat's cheese etc) are not. They will sweat. Try foil, waxy or greaseproof paper or a plastic box.

*Cheese is a living product, so it needs to breathe. Wrapping in plastic is OK sometimes (see above), but leave the rind area free of wrapping so it can breathe sufficiently.

*Draping a damp linen cloth over cheese will keep it from drying out, but it only works if the cloth is kept damp constantly. This is handy if you are going to serve cheese at a dinner party. (See Before serving cheese)

Lifetime of cheese
*Buy cheese on the same day, or as close as possible to the time you want to eat it.

Storing cheese
*The ideal storage temperature is 8 - 10c.

*Keep it in a cool place like a larder - preferably not the fridge!

*Soft cheeses are not good kept in very cold temperatures. For most people though a fridge is the only option, so try keeping cheese in foil, wax or greaseproof paper or plastic boxes instead of wrapping them in plastic when in the fridge.

Before serving cheese
*Take cheese out of storage an hour or two before eating, to let the flavours develop.

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