COLD SMOKED CHEESE ROUND #3 (ALL THE PICS)

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Hawging It

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Well cheese smoking #3 was a success! 4 hours with the apple wood. ZERO MELT. All labeled and vacum packed. Another fun day with the Bayou Classic stick burner. (several pics)
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FIRE .jpg
HERE WE GO.jpg
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Looking good.

I have a block of pepper jack resting from a smoke 2 weeks ago. Tomorrow will be the grand opening and if it is good I will be doing a big cheese smoking event myself!
 
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Looking good.

I have a block of pepper jack resting from a smoke 2 weeks ago. Tomorrow will be the grand opening and if it is good I will be doing a big cheese smoking event myself!
That sounds great! Let us know how it turned out. I am new to the cheese deal but I am ALL in. Love it!
 
I had some that was over a year old , that was fantastic . I have some cheddar that I did last March 2017 . Might open some and see how it is .
Wow, thats great. I have been really interested in buying a vacuum sealer. If and when I do, cheese will be a new thing to try!
 
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I had some that was over a year old , that was fantastic . I have some cheddar that I did last March 2017 . Might open some and see how it is .[/I have several blocks now. Gonna try one in about three weeks. I plan on aging most of it for several months.
 
Third times a charm, nice job. I don't think I've every seen someone put a temp probe in their cheese before.

Point for sure
Chris
 
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With the vacuum seal, how long do you expect these to stay fresh?
I used to wrap really tightly in saran wrap then put them in a ziploc. I had about 10% that lasted a year, the rest were moldy. Since I've started vacuum sealing immediately upon finishing the cold smoke, I've had almost all of them last over a year (at least the ones that didn't get eaten by that time).
 
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Got some xsharp, 2015. Waiting till 2020 election to open. Vac sealed of course. Try them corndog pellets. Really good, even though they smell like grass burning o my a little sweeter
 
Got some xsharp, 2015. Waiting till 2020 election to open. Vac sealed of course. Try them corndog pellets. Really good, even though they smell like grass burning o my a little sweeter
Ok. Was curious. When can I taste a block that I have smoked? I'm new to the cheese game but I'm hooked!!!!
 
Have you tried it? Smoking with dust in a tray, mines edible right out of the smoker but of course its better after a week or two.
 
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Didn't realize that said corndog. Corn cob. Ate the corn cob a month later. Pretty good. That's the earliest I have ever ate. They say a couple weeks or so. Chef Jimmy says you should be able to eat right out of smoker. I let mine rest at room temp covered loosely overnight then vacpac. No sweats when sealed, as in dry.
 
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