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?

Use tuppas

Bare always means naked or exposed. Bear for all the others!

I wrap in cling film then place in tupperware box.

Same here. Ziplock bags get used for lots of things in my house. 🌹

I use a small Tupperware for each kind of cheese (usually have 4 or 5 on the go) no issues with sweating or going hard

Nope you can just wang it all in, in wrappers to stop it getting on the other cheese but ends open no clips. Solved.

Glass one better than plastic if you think it’ll smell.

I have a Tefal cheese preserver, although mine is a smaller size one that they don't sell anymore. Cheese lasts longer in it than in a Tupperware. Not sweaty or smelly. The base of it serves as a board for cutting the cheese so the teenagers take it out of the fridge and take the lid off but the cheese kind of never leaves the box. Lid back on, back in fridge.
I don't put soft cheese in it though, as dh and the kids won't eat that (and if I buy it for me, I trust myself to wrap it properly).

Yeah I don't like that. I think maybe some sort of vacuum pump storage thing might work?

That would just be the same issue as cling film though

Mine goes back in its bag/wrapper, and then that goes in a takeaway container. So it's not loose in the plastic box, but I don't have to reseal the bag.

Granted a huge block of cheese wouldn't fit in a takeaway box, but a 500g block will, once you've opened it and used the first bit.

We are too, then. Although we don't clip ours!!

I then put it all in a lidless tupperware to keep it together in the fridge, however dh never puts it back in there which drives me dotty!!

I had a small tantrum this morning when I realised that DD had opened the applewood then left it in the fridge in the original wrapper, half open of course, then put it beside the other wedge of applewood already open in a tupperware container. Heads will roll ...

Just buy a lock n lock box.
About £3. Think Poundland do them....
Works great on bacon and ham as well.

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My husband is cheese obsessed and i was sick of it being left poorly wrapped on shelves. I got a large (a4 size) fridge container and labelled it The Cheese Box. All chiese goes in that box and it stays on one Shelf and doesnt pollute everything else. Occassionally i Chuck it through the dishwasher.

I have a Milk protein allergy so dont eat cheese!

mine gets wrapped in parchment paper and then popped in a tupperware box. or just eat it straightaway as I do. the human body is the best container for cheese my body is proof of that

Me too. Does the job.

Thanks for posting this, as I often feel the same way! Liking the tupperware idea but would rather glass than plastic, will try to find one. I often have the same feelings about butter storage. I leave my butter in the fridge wrapped in the original wrapper, but feel I should be putting it into something. Are there glass butter dishes that seal tight???!

I have a pottery/china/(not sure) butter dish for my butter in a bid to feel like a grown up.

Thanks to all the replies on this thread I have bought a Mepal cheese box that’s a chopping board too, I think this will be the most teenager friendly.

I’ve fallen in love with the Fortnum & Mason one, I daren’t look at the price though, My budget is definitely more Tupperware. My old fridge had a cheese drawer which was amazing and is very much missed.

The cheese we buy mostly come in wrappers that reseal, if not I just fold the wrapper closed under it and sit it in the fridge. Cheese never lasts long enough to go off/dry up and it never goes sweaty.

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I have this box! It looks cute is nice and big and has a grid in the bottom so chess doesn't get 'wet'.
https://www.stuffforthekitchen.co.uk/product/snips-cheese-saver-container-3l?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9Mqdu7L3hQMVmJJQBh2G9QPhEAQYCCABEgIMxfD_BwE

When I use Tupperware it gets all sweaty. I tried beeswax wraps, still sweaty. If I leave it just in it's open wrapper it dries out and goes hard! Totally lost on what to do. We end up having to throw away most of the cheese we buy.