How to store cheese

It is difficult to predict how much cheese you need for today and tomorrow, and to be safe, many people buy more than they can eat. In addition, beautiful circles on the windows and ask in a basket. However, the cheese - it's not a product that can long remain fresh and longer to retain its flavor, it is necessary to know how to store it.

No polyethylene films

Maybe it will be a revelation, but the cheese can be called a living being: it breathes, sweats and aging. When the cheese is wrapped in plastic, he stops breathing, just not having this capability. In the best case, it will taste disgusting at worst - it zavedutsya harmful bacteria.

Jake Lane, exploring different kinds of cheeses, explains that plastic packaging often makes cheese taste the taste of plastic. So, if you do not want to have plastic, spending a few hundred on the cheese, it is better to shift it from the bag immediately after being brought home.

Wrap the cheese themselves

After you have removed the plastic film, it is necessary to something to wrap the cheese, so it does not dry. An alternative to plastic can become parchment. He misses enough air "breathing" and at the same time, do not allow the cheese to dry.

There is a special cheese paper, but that does not bother, you can wrap it in a simple parchment - it is just great to keep the product.

How wrapping

In order to securely wrap the cheese, you will need:

• parchment
• scissors
• marker
• Scotch

Cut a large square of parchment, about two or three times more than your cheese. Put a piece of cheese on a diagonal, thick end in the corner, thin - to the center.

Wrap cheese successively bending the hand, as if you were packing gift. The "tail" of your package, as shown in the photo, bend up and stick with adhesive tape.

If the photo is not enough for you to understand how to gently wrap the cheese, you can see video. The two rollers shown in detail as to wrap round and rectangular slices of cheese.

When you are screwed on cheese, stick to it a paper tape or a sticker and write on it, what a type of cheese (if you buy different types and store them in the same time) and the date when it was purchased. So you risk not to eat spoiled food.

Hard cheese

Since, as serum separated from the curd in the cheese comes dewatering process, in other words, it dries. To help it retain moisture, you can send the cheese in parchment in an open plastic bag.

In addition, you can store the cheese in polyethylene, but make sure that it was wrapped securely, and between the cheese and the package was enough space.

Blue cheese

This type of cheese has a fairly sharp taste and aroma, so you should keep it away from other varieties of cheese. All products in the refrigerator smelled your favorite cheese, it is best to wrap it in parchment and put into the container.

Soft cheese

When it comes to soft cream cheeses, are advised to avoid plastic film can be ignored. Many people think that soft cheeses are best stored in plastic containers, because only it can protect them from drying out. However, there is no consensus - some prefer to keep them in parchment, as well as the solid variety.

Very soft cheeses such as ricotta or mozzarella, should be stored in their liquid in a plastic container. As for them it is necessary to be especially careful - soft cheeses are stored not as long as they are solid comrades.

And a few more tips on keeping cheeses:

1. If you have deployed the cheese, but it came a little bit of mold, do not panic. Simply cut and dispose of this piece, and cheese you can eat. But this only applies to hard cheeses, if the mold appeared on the soft, it is possible that it has deteriorated.
2. Do not freeze cheese! It loses its flavor and texture. However, if you use cheese only for cooking, freeze will not be anything to worry about.
3. If you remove the cheese, for example, late at night to eat, be sure to wrap it again in a blank paper.