Anyone do cheese waxing

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For preservation? We just got 10lbs of wax in the mail. Been researching waxing cheese for long term storage. Fat people and kids like cheese, I happen to be both.

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Burt Gummer said:
For preservation? We just got 10lbs of wax in the mail. Been researching waxing cheese for long term storage. Fat people and kids like cheese, I happen to be both.

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For a second I got really excited because I thought that was a huge waxed cheese.
 
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Have you tried freeze drying something like string cheese, or at least that shape? Kind think it’ll puff and be delicious.

I don’t know about wax
 
JimB said:
Have you tried freeze drying something like string cheese, or at least that shape? Kind think it’ll puff and be delicious.

I don’t know about wax
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Not yet but I will! I actually haven’t done any cheese yet other than what was in a casserole. Not sure about it puffing up, cheese tends to get brittle from what I’ve seen so far but I’ll run a piece this weekend and see what happens.
 
JimB said:
Have you tried freeze drying something like string cheese, or at least that shape? Kind think it’ll puff and be delicious.

I don’t know about wax
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Yes, string cheese doesn't puff up at all. Made for good somewhat crunchy snacks but it was still dense and pretty dang hard to eat. It'd be better if the slices were cut thin rather than freeze drying the full strips whole. The consistency reminds me of porcelain honestly, weird feelin. I might have a jar with some in the kitchen still, if I do i'll post a pic.
 
hp468 said:
If you start buying wheels of cheese you MUST buy a Dayton or IBM computing cheese cutter! @Lil D
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I recently went into a local farm store. Pretty nice brick and mortar store with all manner of things for sale besides what the raise on the farm. Noticed a wheel of red rhine cheese sitting on the counter. Asked the girl running he store for a pound. She sliced of a chunk and weighed it. Scales read .964. I was thinkin she has done this before.
Lil D said:
He’s serious when it comes to cheese preservation 😂😋
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Is that code for he slices it really thin?
 
Schattenreiter said:
I recently went into a local farm store. Pretty nice brick and mortar store with all manner of things for sale besides what the raise on the farm. Noticed a wheel of red rhine cheese sitting on the counter. Asked the girl running he store for a pound. She sliced of a chunk and weighed it. Scales read .964. I was thinkin she has done this before.



Is that code for he slices it really thin?
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So she shorted you 4 thou? lol

If you look up a video of the cheese cutter i referenced, it is amazing how they designed the linkage in the manor they did to cut accurate weights off a wheel.
 
Burt Gummer said:
For preservation? We just got 10lbs of wax in the mail. Been researching waxing cheese for long term storage. Fat people and kids like cheese, I happen to be both.

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So, 10 pounds of cheese wax just mysteriously shows up in the mail?
 
We looked at the waxing of cheese to preserve it; never pursued it because we wound up not getting into making cheese.

We thought about doing it with store-bought just never did.
 
Geezer said:
So, 10 pounds of cheese wax just mysteriously shows up in the mail?
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I figured it showed up as part of your nose hair wax order
 
This thread and y'all miscreants took me right back to Chester in the 80's.

My wife's roommate and her batshite crazy friends from western PA referred to boinking as making or getting cheezy.
One of her roommates friends, Chuck, would come over Saturday, go to her bed, scratch the dried puddle, sniff and try to name the guy. He called the game Scratch and Sniff.
I thought I knew rednecks, until I met so many loons from W PA.
 
@Burt Gummer yes, i tried cheese waxing, had both success and failure. I assume you’re going to use store bought cheese like cheddar. Unwrap it, wipe it down with vinegar to help kill and deter bacteria. Place it in a cooling rack (like you put cookies on when you bake them) and let it dry for a few days. Moisture is the enemy here. After it’s dried, then wax it. Either dip it in the wax or brush it on. Get it covered good and then store it, but don’t put it in a closed container _- you want to let moisture evaporate or else it will mold.

When ready to use, remove the wax and save it for next time. The cheese will take on a stronger flavor that might not be cheese and crackers type good but will make excellent mac&cheese or things like that.
 
JimB said:
Have you tried freeze drying something like string cheese, or at least that shape? Kind think it’ll puff and be delicious.

I don’t know about wax
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Looks like @hp468 already answered before I saw it but yep, no puffy cheese, hard as a rock, became a dog treat very quickly lol. This tray was just for a random “see what happens” run. I was curious if the chocolate and marshmallow would expand out of the s’mores pop tarts and somehow we had cookies my daughter didn’t want, sooo end of the world treats here we go 😉

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We wiped them all with white vinegar and let them dry out. Tonight was dipping night. Fingers crossed. We’ll try it in a few months

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