What do you store cheese in?

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I've always just put them in a plastic food bag when opened and keep them in the fridge.

The other week I had some cheddar that went mouldy within a few days and was still before its use by date. So I took it back to Tescos. They replaced it but the woman said I shouldn't keep cheese in a plastic bag but have it unwrapped in a tupperware box.

An online article I just found from Good Food Magazine said wrap cheddar in plastic or clingfilm.

I've always used plastic with no problems before. But now today I have more mouldy cheddar.

foil in my fridge

plastic wrap or food bags make cheese sweat.

ideally it would be waxed paper, foil or a tupperware

Thanks.

foil, if no waxed paper, but ideally waxed paper, then in a brown paper bag and in the salad drawer of the fridge.

If it's mouldy on the surface, just scrape it off, it's only the mould that's physically in the cheese reacting with the damp air inside the bag. The cheese underneath will be fine!

In the cheese saver box I got from Lakeland or a small plastic box if I need the space in the fridge.

My Lakeland cheese saver box

It used to be bad to use cling film with fatty foods (it could leach xeno-oestrogens out and cause infertility, breast cancer & stuff), not sure about current cling film formula.

I leave mine in it's own packet, and then wrap in an outer layer of foil.

Unwrapped in a Lock & Lock box.

In a tupperware-type box with a piece of kitchen roll in to absorb the moisture. Lasts yonks!

Its not you, its the supermarket cheese. I often stock up oon cheese, and its gone mouldy in the fridge, still in its unopened shrink ping. I kept thinking it was my fault, but next time I WILL take it back and compain.

Its not you, its the supermarket cheese. I often stock up oon cheese, and its gone mouldy in the fridge, still in its unopened shrink ping. I kept thinking it was my fault, but next time I WILL take it back and compain.

old pants

I never have a problem with cheese going mouldy but that's because it's usually gone within a day or two

I find takeaway tubs are just the right size for a block of cheese. Keeps forever.