Will my stinking cheese be okay in the garage?

[Nomorewineever]

I’ve got two Camembert in the fridge.

They honk to high heaven. Reek. Stink. Pong. Every time I open the fridge the entire kitchen is fogged in the aroma of stinking cheese.

They are in sealed ziplock bags in sealed clip plastic boxes and still they honk. And I mean HONK. They are well well within date they’re just especially honky.

I am cooking them Xmas eve. The outside temp is 7c day and 3c night between now and the 24th.

Will I kill my guests if I relegate the cheese to the garage for the intervening days?

I keep loads of food in the garage over the Christmas period. It is always all fine. I would imagine cheese just needs to be kept cool rather than at a particular temp.

When there’s no room in my fridge or wine fridge the wine goes in our garage. It come nice and crisp. Your cheese will be fine and probably not as stinky as it won’t be in a confined space.

Right. I’m evicting it.

I've accused DH of farting in the kitchen several times today and he's denied it vehemently. Finally worked out it's the Epoisse I bought this morning....why doesn't it smell like that in the supermarket cheese aisle is what I want to know!

Make sure it’s in a mouse proof container, OP. Years ago, I put a cheese out. The little fuckers ate half of it!

I second the mouse proof container.
the buggers loooove smelly cheese (and anything else edible really).

we use a big camping coolbox on the balcony as extra fridge. one of those that can be locked.

There's cheddar cheese kept in caves at Woolley Hole! Just make sure the container is clean and rodent-proof and it'll be fine :)

They'll be fine and delicious.
The stinkier it is, the better it tastes.

Oh god, I loooooooove stinky Camembert! I'll 'look after it' for you, @Nomorewineever...

It’s already in a clip type Tupperware but I might expand on my eviction and send the Stilton and the port salut out with it and put the lot inside the camping coolbox. We do have mice. I don’t think they can undo clip boxes but I wouldn’t put it past them....

Garage should be fine. But if you want it in the fridge, I find a metal tun is much better at hiding the 3 week old corpse aroma than plastic.

Our mice (rats?) gnawed through a plastic box of bird seed to eat the seed. Just saying.

Wookey

Just noticed auto correct!

You need a metal container to stop rodents. Plastic is easy for them to eat

Sanityisamyth, I was about to ask if Woolley Hole was a euphemism...!

It’s now in the garage in a ziplock, in a box, in the coolbox, sealed.

I defy any mouse to try. And I will keep a check. Still stinks!!

Anyone else having a mental image of a crack team of mice going in for the cheese, probably to the theme tune of Mission Impossible?

Just me then. As you were.

OP I make cheese and the temps you describe are perfect cheese temps. My cheese fridge is set at 10c (as would the cave the cheese was matured in) so anything below is perfect.

I'm so glad you asked this. I have exactly the same problem and said to DH maybe we should put it in the shed. That will be my first job when I get up!!

@nakedavengeragain. Sheesh. I want your job!!

You're probably going to have to replace your cool box before you next go camping 😆

It'll be fine. Cheese was invented because we couldn't keep milk good for long in the pre-fridge era.

In fact, lots of cheese connoisseurs think that the fridge is actually too cold for cheese and it should be left out to warm up before eating. They say that cellar temperature is much better, so the garage is perfect.

Sorry @nakedavengeragain, I didn't see your post before I wrote mine! At least we are in agreement...

I have eight, no shit. Big group on Boxing Day and I'm doing baked camembert, we tried everything, The house friggen stank. So they now are in a Tupperware outside.

Mum banished Dad's Camembert to the garden shed one year-it was fine.