During the time of the Roman Empire, cheese was already part of people's diet and cheese making was a firmly established practice. Some wealthy Romans even had special kitchens just for making cheese.
Roman Cheese Making
The ancient Egyptians illustrated the art of cheese making on tomb walls dating back as far as 2000 BC. There's even archaeological evidence that people in Poland were making cheese 1000 years earlier than that!
The art of cheese making and cheese storage, to keep the cheese as fresh as possible, has been well established over the centuries.
If you purchase a top quality cheese, the last thing you want is to spoil it by storing it the wrong way. So, what's the best way to store cheese?
Well, firstly avoid storing your cheese in plastic wrappers. Wrapping cheese directly in plastic wrapping suffocates the cheese and suppresses the flavour. The plastic also has a bad, synthetic taste which tends to linger on the cheese and will completely spoil the taste.
Cheese is a living breathing organic food and suffocating it with plastic wrapping is bad practice and is probably the worst thing you can possibly do.
The best way to store your cheese is to use cheese paper. If you can't find cheese paper, try using parchment or waxed paper. Then wrap every thing loosely in plastic wrapping, or a plastic bag. This allows the cheese to breathe, to a degree, without drying it out.
When you decide to eat your cheese, it's a good idea to remove it from the fridge and allow it to stand for an hour or so before eating. This allows the cheese to breathe and draws out the flavour, which means you'll eat your cheese at it's very best.
Polmac Cheese Safe For: Harrods Ltd UK
In the summer months particularly, leaving your cheese out of the fridge will make it very attractive to flies that may contaminate it. A good way to avoid this is to use a 'cheese safe'
There are many styles of cheese safe but essentially it's a small box on legs with a hinged lid, secured by a catch and has open mesh, fly proof side panels, which allow the air to circulate freely inside. Sometimes a cheese board, made from beech wood is accommodated inside.
Polmac (UK) Ltd supplies cheese safes to a number of high-end food chains and retail stores. They're custom made to our customers exact requirements, at no extra cost and are made from unlacquered, food compatible, alder or linden wood.
All Polmac cheese safes can be overprinted with text, or logos, if a more personalized finish is required and are designed to boost company branding and sales!
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