I need to improve my cheese storage and thus life

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I have teenagers, I am winging it through life as a single parent and trying not to feel like I’m living in a student house where each person does their own thing. Anyway we get through a lot of cheese, I am bored of finding it not properly cling filmed, and bored of DD using tin foil which sets my teeth on edge.

I feel like if I got a THING from Lakeland/Joseph Joseph/John Lewis it would be a more civilised family home and our cheese would also be better.

Could someone better at this than me please tell me if you have a cheese box and does it work well?

I just wrap in tin foil. But my mum used to use an empty lurpak tub.

Oh my gosh, thank you for this! I used to be able to spell both, but have developed a mental block about the difference between the two recently. This mnemonic will improve my life massively!!!

See also bare and bear. I don't know what's happened to me!

My old, old fridge came with a cheese box. I got a bit annoyed with it taking up disproportionate fridge space when cheese supplies were low. In subsequent fridgesl I use a large ziplock bag. So cheese goes back in its original shop wrapper and then into the ziplock back. This seems to keep it fresh and stops the whole kitchen fridge reeking if I buy Brie. Current fridge hasa dedicated fridge tray but I still put open cheese into the ziplock and then into the tray. DC are reasonably good at doing the same.

I can't believe I just typed out a whole message about my cheese storage solutions and preferences.

I need to improve my cheese storage and thus life

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Buy a big block of cheese. Cut in half leaving it in the wrapper. Popboyj into a ziplock bag or non-smelly 'tupperware' box. Put one nearer the back of the fridge.

If the block is smaller, the slices you cut from it will be smaller.

Fortnum and Mason have come to your rescue. You would want to store your cheese like a peasant now would you?

Doesn’t cheese go all sweaty in Tupperware?

My word, a quick google uncovers a whole world of cheese storage, cheese serving, cheese slicing and other cheese related paraphernalia. My ziplock bags seem just so basic. I find myself hankering after completely unnecessary individual cheese plates with dairy themed blue & white artwork.

I keep mine in a pyrex storage box. Fully resealable plastic lid, so cheese doesn't dry out. Probably makes no difference, but having it sitting in glass rather than a full plastic box just makes me feel like it's happier in there.

Old cheese dish.

Tablescape 🤣

I put our cheese in zip locks, but dont actually zip them shut so that there is a small amount of cheese breathability but not cheese dehydration and therefore cheese death. I find a single fold (or if you are a teenager just shoving it against the side of the fridge) is just the right amount of air flow restriction

Interesting, I notice your antique cheese storage has a little ventilation hole at the top (which could potentially release Brie fumes).

I also use zip lock bags and reuse them multiple times until they rip or stop sealing.

I came on to say I use these too, probably from Lakeland. I find them really good.

To the OP, I couldn’t get upset about unwrapped cheese with teenagers, let’s face it, it doesn’t hand around long enough to go off, and a bit off crusty round the edges won’t harm them, a bit of mould can be sliced off.

Forty years of dodgy cheese storage here and no food poisoning. I also freeze every cheese under the sun without problems.

Back in the olden days of my childhood we had larder, never, with death threats in the fridge, cheese was wrapped in wax paper (?) and a mesh thing like this.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mason-Cash-White-Folding-Protective/dp/B01DCB7D80?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Ziplock bags - I loosely wrap the cheese in a sheet of paper towel. For storage boxes I put a sheet of paper towel on the bottom of the box, and one loosely over the top of cheese, all to help avoid a sweaty mess.

I grate my own cheese from the big mature cheddar blocks in Aldi. Mix with a tsp of cornflour to stop it clumping together. Freezes very well too, but rarely lasts long enough for that. Same storage as above.

Bear has an ear- that's the animal.

BARE contains three of the letters in ARSE, in the right order. BEAR doesn't!

So just think bARE ARsE.

Oh, I love that!

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Ziploc bag here too, reused over and over. I have some which are older than my kids

Greengrocer near me often gives away food about to go off or past its best or 'best before' date free at the end of the trading day. Learn to improvise. You can substitute ingredients.
(I've had some delicious things from there and some really only fit for composting, often get things like milk)
Use greengrocers, you can buy what you need, not a big pack you won't use most of.

Oops, wrong thread, but I do sometimes make cheese from the free milk.

Beeswax wraps are the way to go: https://honeybeegood.co.uk/collections?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw88yxBhBWEiwA7cm6pb-AkxiOrrzn_Dip7CjuH-8hMItKbK0nVx3UR8VN-BiGg5uT02DplxoCgCsQAvD_BwE

(edited because the original link was a US site)