Two pieces of cheddar
Two pieces of cheddar
One year ago I smoked two pounds of cheddar cheese. I cut the brick into several more or less equal sizes and smoked them on the same shelf in my smoker for a time and then wrapped time in new clean plastic wrap. This is a picture of two of the pieces wrapped equally and stored on the same shelf in the fridge. As may be seen one is moldy and one completely free of any mold. The only explaination I can offer is the clean piece has seemingly shrunken a bit and its moisture content may be below the level to suppot the growth of the mold.
Does anyone have a better explaination? Thanks.
Does anyone have a better explaination? Thanks.
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I would lean towards a bit of contamination on the plastic wrap or the surface of the moldy one.
The moisture content shouldn't have changed that drastically between the 2 if the were smoked, wrapped, and stored exactly the same.
The ONLY other idea I have is that there may have been a great oxygen content within the wrap of the moldy one than the other.
I haven't seen this with my vacuum packer before, but in the past when one wrapped in cling wrap molded, the others did as well...
Hopefully others will chime in soon.
Charlie
The moisture content shouldn't have changed that drastically between the 2 if the were smoked, wrapped, and stored exactly the same.
The ONLY other idea I have is that there may have been a great oxygen content within the wrap of the moldy one than the other.
I haven't seen this with my vacuum packer before, but in the past when one wrapped in cling wrap molded, the others did as well...
Hopefully others will chime in soon.
Charlie