Creating Small Sub-Environments for Cheese Aging By Yoel Blumberger* 1. Introduction – Aging In the cheese making process, the aging stage is quite calm, compared to the intensive preparation stage, but it is important and affects the taste and character of the final cheese. It is also the longest stage by far for most of the cheeses. The cheese maker’s role in the aging stage
Yoel Blumberger’s Humidity Control System
How to create and maintain the right humidity for your cheese while it’s aging… This is a very important subject for cheesemakers and we have tried to give you as much information as we can about it: We have a large Tips & Techniques section on our website about how to make a cave and how to control the humidity using plastic boxes (click here).
Playing Music in the Cave?!
“Cheese in Surround Sound – a culinary art experiment” March 14th is a big day in Burgdorf, Switzerland. That’s the day when a team of judges (expert cheese tasters) will determine whether music played in the town’s famous aging cave for 8 months had an effect on the taste of it’s Emmentals.* This is not a joke! It’s an actual experiment being conducted at Kasehaus K3
Why Cheese Mites?
Before you get completely grossed out by this post, please bear in mind that mites are everywhere – in the air, the water, on the land. They are in most of the grains and flours we eat. In fact, they are a very important part of the carbon cycle, helping to decompose organic matter by eating mold. When they aren’t on cheese, they are called ‘storage
Tatiana’s Refrigerator “Cave”
In 2015, we interviewed Tatiana Thomas who lives in Yekaterinburg, Russia – (click here). Tatiana is now selling her Camembert and she is in the process of organizing a “Mold Cheese Festival” which will celebrate dairy farms in her area. Recently, she shared her new “cave” with us because she said, “I want American home cheese makers to be able to have the same aging
How to Make an Inexpensive Cheese Cave
My Cheese Cave By Bob Albers* Cheese caves are wonderful things. Especially when you consider the wonderful things they contain and the wonderful things we get out of them. If you live in the mountains and are fortunate enough to have a real cave on your property, you are ahead of the rest of us. I live in perfectly flat country. There are only two
Using a Coolbot in Your Cheese Cave
Have you given any thought to making a walk-in cheese cave? It’s easier than you might think … Many home cheese makers use refrigerators and wine coolers to age their cheese. These are great, but space is limited. For those of you who make a lot of cheese, there is an easy, inexpensive solution – using a Coolbot along with an air conditioner (or mini-split)
10 Tips for Aging Your Natural Rind Cheeses
Or, as the song might go, “We’re just a flippin and a rubbin…” Natural rinds – that sounds so easy – just you and your cheese growing old together with no barriers between you. (We know all about your love for that cheese you made so carefully. You promised yourself nothing would come between you and it, didn’t you?) Well, it is easy. All you