Your question cannot be answered as the only info you provided was, it was cheap cheese.Are the cheese blocks that I was mentioning from Kroger considered hard or semi hard cheese? I'm going to pick up a variety of them today.
I suggest as you are just starting to smoke cheese, that you take it slow by purchasing one type of cheese hopefully cheddar, yellow or white. You can then use it as a foundation in learning the art of smoking cheese. We can later get into smoking different types of cheese. While you are at the store, pick up a good notebook, it will be your friend for years to come.
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