Cheese stays fresh and mould-free for up to a month when stored in an unusual wrapper, food waste expert says

CHEESE is an costly point successful your buying trolley, truthful you privation to marque definite you're storing it correctly.

Brie, cheddar, bluish oregon Manchego, not substance what food you similar to nibble on, it tin spell mouldy quickly.

Or it tin stink retired your full fridge, meaning everything volition extremity up tasting somewhat cheesy.

“Cheese typically stays caller for astir 1 to 2 weeks successful your fridge,” experts astatine NRC Business Waste told Fabulous exclusively.

Switch the wrapper

But determination are respective ways successful which you tin widen it's support life, conscionable by changing the packaging.

Typically, hard cheeses travel successful plastic, whereas astir brushed cheeses travel successful a parchment-plastic wrapper.

“When artifact cheeses similar cheddar oregon parmesan are wrapped successful integrative oregon cling film, they tin commencement to spoil wrong 1 to 2 weeks owed to trapped moisture,” the experts explained.

Basically, the food sweats if it's successful integrative oregon clingfilm.

“By switching to parchment paper, the insubstantial allows food to respire and reduces the hazard of mould growth.

"You tin widen the cheese’s freshness by up to 2 weeks longer than modular packaging if you enactment food into parchment paper."

Stop odours

If you person a peculiarly smelly cheese, aft being wrapped, it tin beryllium kept successful an airtight instrumentality to forestall odours escaping into the fridge and your room each clip you unfastened the fridge door.

As for wherever is champion to store hard food to forestall it from going mouldy, the bottommost drawers - oregon crisper drawers arsenic they're sometimes referred to - works good for food retention due to the fact that they person a humidity vent.

Freezing

The discarded experts said: “Not a batch of Brits cognize that freezing food tin widen its support beingness up to six months."

But not each food is champion frozen.

Hard and semi-hard cheeses specified arsenic cheddar, tasty, parmesan, provolone and mozzarella are champion to freeze.

However, erstwhile defrosted, food is champion utilized for cooking alternatively than eating earthy as, successful astir cases, the texture volition change. 

"Grating hard food similar earlier freezing helps support its texture, making it cleanable for cooking oregon sprinkling aft thawing," the experts added.

Freezing caller cheeses similar ricotta, brie, oregon bluish food is not recommended due to the fact that it volition impact their operation and quality. 

However, you tin frost them if you're utilizing them successful dishes similar lasagne oregon quiches that you past freeze. 

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