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How to Make Special Containers for Aging Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make Special Containers for Aging Cheese

Yoel with his pottery container Creating Small Sub-Environments for Cheese Aging By Yoel Blumberger* 1. Introduction – ...

Yoel Blumberger's Humidity Control System - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Yoel Blumberger's Humidity Control System

Yoel Blumberger How to create and maintain the right humidity for your cheese while it’s aging… This is a very importan...

Playing Music in the Cave?! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Playing Music in the Cave?!

Beat Wampfler with an Emmental. Photo from his Twitter “Cheese in Surround Sound – a culinary art experiment” March 14t...

Why Cheese Mites? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Why Cheese Mites?

Before you get completely grossed out by this post, please bear in mind that mites are everywhere – in the air, the water...

Tatiana's Refrigerator "Cave" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tatiana's Refrigerator "Cave"

In 2015, we interviewed Tatiana Thomas who lives in Yekaterinburg, Russia – (click here). Tatiana is now selling her Cam...

How to Make an Inexpensive Cheese Cave - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make an Inexpensive Cheese Cave

Bob Albers My Cheese Cave By Bob Albers* Cheese caves are wonderful things. Especially when you consider the wonderful t...

Using a Coolbot in Your Cheese Cave - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using a Coolbot in Your Cheese Cave

Have you given any thought to making a walk-in cheese cave? It’s easier than you might think … Many home cheese makers u...

Controlling Moisture in the "Cave" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Controlling Moisture in the "Cave"

Pedro and his Saanen, Rosie The issue is humidity. You can measure it with hygrometers but controlling it is another ma...

How to Add Humidity to Your Room Sized "Cave" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Add Humidity to Your Room Sized "Cave"

Yes, we do sell hygrometers for measuring humidity, but adding humidity is another story. For years, many of us have been...

10 Tips for Aging Your Natural Rind Cheeses - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

10 Tips for Aging Your Natural Rind Cheeses

“Little Darling Tomme” from DiBruno Bros. Or, as the song might go, “We’re just a flippin and a rubbin…” Natural rinds –...

Can You Age Your Cheese in Clay?! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Can You Age Your Cheese in Clay?!

OK, you can call me crazy but I’m serious. And I don’t know the answer. I’m just hoping one of you will. (If anyone is d...

FDA vs Artisan Cheese Makers - Wooden Shelves Issue - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

FDA vs Artisan Cheese Makers - Wooden Shelves Issue

As you may have heard, the FDA recently cited cheese makers in New York State for violating their “Good Manufacturing P...

Susan O'Dwyer in Harrisville, New Hampshire - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Susan O'Dwyer in Harrisville, New Hampshire

Susan is hooking the rug at right, which she designed. Susan O’Dwyer and her husband, Barry have a small farm in ...

Steve Murtaugh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Steve Murtaugh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Steve Murtaugh with his main Maoi – an Eastern Island Tiki Steve Murtaugh is a master home cheese maker. He se...

Controlling Humidity in Your Cheese "Cave" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Controlling Humidity in Your Cheese "Cave"

Steve (Bear) Murtaugh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A couple of months ago, I mentioned in an e-mail to Steve Murtaug...

How to Use Ripening Boxes with Ian Treuer - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Use Ripening Boxes with Ian Treuer

Ian cleaning the rind of an “El Torro” (Chipotle rubbed Montasio) at Smoky Valley Artisan Cheese Ian Treuer from ...

How to Make a Cheese "Cave" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make a Cheese "Cave"

Jon with his cat, Koba This takes your dorm sized refrigerator to a whole new level! As you may know, we sell a r...

Using Vacuum Sealers to Age Your Cheese? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Vacuum Sealers to Age Your Cheese?

Photo courtesy of Tara Tarbet at Welcome Home Farm It’s all about the taste! If the only reason you aren’t makin...

Mystery Holes in Her Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Mystery Holes in Her Cheese

It was a year-long quest for answers! Caroline Abbott used to be an accomplished goat’s milk cheesemaker. All that chang...

Using Hygrometers to Measure Humidity - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Hygrometers to Measure Humidity

When it comes to aging your cheese, one of the most useful devices to have is a hygrometer (to measure humidity) or a the...

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