{"id":353,"date":"2016-11-16T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/?p=353"},"modified":"2016-11-19T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T05:28:09","slug":"and-speaking-of-waxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"And Speaking of Waxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"agedredwax_large\"I have been doing research on waxing cheese for long term storage.\u00c2\u00a0 From what I can gather from sources online, the best temperature for storing cheese in this fashion is between 40-55 degrees.\u00c2\u00a0 My pantry was being used as a wine storage cupboard by the previous tenants, so they installed insulation\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0all the walls, and it stays cooler than the rest of the house, but\u00c2\u00a0it doesn’t stay that cool.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, even at higher temperatures, waxing cheese is\u00c2\u00a0supposed to increase shelf life to 6 months to a\u00c2\u00a0year.<\/p>\n

Every few months, Safeway has a “Just for U” deal on their store brand of cheese.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t usually buy it; we like our Tillamook, but its such a bargain price (typically 99 cents for 8 ounces) that I usually buy my limit and we I use it in shredded applications, tacos, on scrambled eggs, topping a casserole.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be no great hardship to lose a block of this cheap cheese, so the next time the deal strikes, I am going to try my hand at waxing cheese.<\/p>\n

Lots of info out there on how to do it, and some of it contradictory (one site says only heat the wax just so its melted enough for dipping to avoid overheating the cheese because drawing out the fat will prevent a good seal.\u00c2\u00a0 Another says to get the cheese wax up to 200 degree since most germs are killed at 180), so more research for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been doing research on waxing cheese for long term storage.\u00c2\u00a0 From what I can gather from sources online, the best temperature for storing cheese in this fashion is between 40-55 degrees.\u00c2\u00a0 My pantry was being used as a wine storage cupboard by the previous tenants, so they installed insulation\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0all the walls, and it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12,33,22],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-preservation","tag-food","tag-food-storage","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}