Do you love cheese?
Then you should store it properly in the refrigerator so that it stays fresh as long as possible.
Read here how this works best.
When the stomach growls, the first route is often to the refrigerator.
After all, all the delicious groceries that you have bought are waiting there.
With a good snack, home-baked bread *, some cold cuts and various spreads as well as vegetables such as cucumber and tomatoes should not be missing - and of course cheese.
From Gouda to Camembert and Emmentaler to mountain cheese: the possibilities are endless.
Cheese lovers like to have four to five different types in stock at the same time, after all, you want to have a choice.
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How long can cheese keep?
But then it happens very quickly: You don't manage to finish every cheese in time and it starts to go moldy.
With some varieties, the mold is of course wanted (keyword: noble mushroom cheese), this can spread during storage without the cheese becoming bad.
But if you discover green, white or furry spots on hard or semi-hard cheese, you'd better throw it away.
The
shelf life of cheese varies
from variety to variety.
The lower the water content, the longer the shelf life.
As a guideline for cool storage after cutting, the following apply:
Freshly grated cheese (e.g. Parmesan): should be consumed as soon as possible
Cream cheese: a week
Raw milk cheese: one week
Semi-hard cheese: about ten days
Soft cheese: about two weeks
Hard cheese: up to three weeks
Dried grated cheese (e.g. Parmesan): up to three weeks
The shelf life also depends largely on how you
pack and store
the
cheese
.
You should store cheese properly so that mold does not develop in the first place.
With a simple tip for storage, it stays fresh longer and you don't have to throw away the good cheese.
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Storing cheese correctly: this way it stays fresh longer
How do you store your cheese? Some people have a fresh food box with the different types in the fridge. Or do you just leave it in the plastic packaging in which you bought it? This is a mistake. When cheese is wrapped in plastic film without holes or stored in airtight packaging, the air supply that is so important for cheese is blocked: the cheese can no longer "breathe". By the way, it is better to
store
types of cheese
separately from one another
so that they do not take on each other's taste and smell.
And how should cheese be stored correctly?
Wrap the cheese in special cheese
paper
, alternatively
baking paper
, and place it in a loose plastic bag.
This goes in the fridge as usual - cheese, like other dairy products, feels most comfortable in the middle compartment at 6-7 ° C.
Cheese or baking paper is more breathable than other foils and packaging materials.
This way the cheese stays fresh longer and it helps to maintain the good taste.
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