[Singel]

I put the cheese in a zipped plastic bag and store it in the fridge. After 2 weeks, before we could finish it, a small part of the cheese turn mouldy. If the plastic bag is not zipped, the cheese expose to the fridge cooling, will harden and dry up.

On both occasion, I have to throw the cheese away without finishing it :o

Is there a better way to store a cheese?

Any expert advice on this is appreciated :nice1

[jubjub]

We dont have that prob, it gets eaten too quick!

Although we do wrap it in cling film, rather than put it in a bag.

[Brijan]

we also get through the cheese quickley but we wrap ours in foil in the fridge :)

[Carol]

we just cut the mould off and carry on!
:D

[Oregonkiwi]

The zipped bag probably has too much air inside, it's better to wrap the cheese tightly to keep the air out (as the other posts suggest.) My other advice would be to buy smaller blocks of cheese, or to cut a bigger block of cheese in half and freeze some. (I always thought that you can't freeze cheese, but this is what my mother does, and it works well, the cheese is a bit crumbly after being frozen but otherwise good.)

[Anita & Marco]

Hi,

I am not a cheese eater myself, but you should have an old fashioned Dutch 'kaasstolp' - just ask Ton what it is, when you have not heard of it.

Cheers,
Anita

[stu70]

Look at the issue a tad differently; how to expedite its consumption (thinking outside the wrap perhaps :D)...Maybe a few additional bottles of wine and you won't have storage issue anymore. You know I am just kidding.
On a serious note check this out http://www.wikihow.com/Store-Cheese-and-Keep-It-Happy-at-Home
Regards

[Tia Maria]

I find lots of food stores really badly.

Bagels seem to go mouldy the minute we get them home, potatoes sprout as we don't have a dark, cool place and bananas seem to leak (something I'd not come across before). I know you can freeze a lot of things but once you put a loaf of bread and a packet of bagels in, there's not much room for anything else.

In addition everything has to be sealed and covered to keep the ants and flies off.

Now I understand why so many Kiwis get take aways.

Cheers

Tia

[lollypop]

Look at the issue a tad differently; how to expedite its consumption (thinking outside the wrap perhaps :D)...Maybe a few additional bottles of wine and you won't have storage issue anymore. You know I am just kidding.


Stu70 - I like your style!

[stu70]

C'est magnifique !Merci beaucoup !

cordialement

[Soon2baKiwi]

I use a 'sistema klip it container'. I got mine in Foodtown but you can get them in the plastic box shops as well (cheaper). My (Kiwi) sister in law does this so I just copied her :nice1 It works really well - I've never had cheese go off and we don't eat it a lot.

[Singel]

C'est magnifique !Merci beaucoup !

cordialement
Stu70, I echo your lovely french expression ;) : It is splendid ! :nice1 Thank you very much ! :yes cordially :cheers

[Jenny & Mark]

we just cut the mould off and carry on!
:D

Yesterday, a food safety expert on CBC radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) said that if cheese grows mould and it isn't blue cheese, then you must discard the entire block because the spores will be throughout the cheese.

However, I will still use the cut the mouldy sections and a bit more away rule too :)

Mark.

[stu70]

Stu70, I echo your lovely french expression ;) : It is splendid ! :nice1 Thank you very much ! :yes cordially :cheers

Thanks Singel, we are very fortunate to be living in a country where these two languages have equal status. French is a beauty but so are dutch, flemish, german and many others. Europe is heaven for language lovers. Thanks again for your kind words. Best Regards,

[Singel]

Europe is heaven for language lovers.
When we were in Luxembourg, the local people were fluent in 3 languages (no prize for guessing it right ;) ) - it is just amazing :clap

Thanks again for your kind words. Best Regards,
"Graag gedaan" :yes You are most welcome :nice1

[Anita & Marco]

oh yes, you know - in the netherlands most people are fluent in three or more languages.

cheers, bye, adios, gutendag. doei, ciao.
Anita

[sarahw]

Tia - with regards to bread products have you tried storing them in the fridge? Our bread, bagels etc. last much longer in the fridge (as long as they would have lasted in UK in the breadbin) & taste just the same.

I certainly wouldn't waste a good bit of cheese because of a bit of mould - have always just cut off the mouldy bit & carried on eating it, but usually it doesn't stay in there long enough to go mouldy/hard!

[Smiler]

I keep many more things in the fridge here than I did in the UK.

Bread, rolls etc all keep much longer, I was finding bread going mouldy after a day or so otherwise. Jams, sauces and preserves all go in the fridge once they are open too.

I store cheese in one of those snap and click containers in the fridge, wrapped in foil, not cling film or gladwrap, if part eaten. But it's rare there's any cheese left to go mouldy in our house although I would cut the mould off and nibble away, preferably with a glass of NZ's finest.

My OH would have a blue fit if he knew that though, so shhhhhh please. ;) He spent too long studying bacteria at college. :D

[kiwidebs]

Yup, I'm another in the 'cut the moldy bit off and carry on' brigade. Maybe we should do a poll and see how many off us there are? :D


Debs

[gil]

Yup, I'm another in the 'cut the moldy bit off and carry on' brigade. Maybe we should do a poll and see how many off us there are? :D


Debs

Me too Debs :D

Gil

[gil]

Say, we could combine this with the "Wellington or Auckland" thread, I can see at least two cut the moldy bit off Aucklanders so far.....:D

Gil

[sarahw]

:) I'm a cut the mouldy bit of Wellingtonian... ;)(maybe its an English thing?!)

[Smiler]

:) I'm a cut the mouldy bit of Wellingtonian... ;)(maybe its an English thing?!)

Ok I'm an almost ex-wellingtonian, but I'm a 'cut the mouldy bit off' girl too.

(Shhesh, if only he knew what goes on when I'm cooking and preparing food ;))

[Carol]

I was raised believing that if penicillin was Ok for you then cutting the green bits off cheese was fine too.
spores!
HA I laugh in the face of spores...


ha... ha.... ha.... ha....


off for my meds...

:exit

;)