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Cheese Storage Wraps
Can these specialized products keep your cheese fresher longer?
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WinnerFormaticum Cheese Bags
Buy at AmazonThese 11 by 6½-inch wax-coated bags resemble bakery bags, but their insides have the same porous plastic layer used in Formaticum Cheese Paper. The bags kept Brie, cheddar, and goat cheeses free of mold and dryness for three weeks, letting the cheddar dry out just slightly in the fourth week. Slightly more convenient to use than the cheese paper, the bags didn’t need stickers to seal: We just folded over the ends a few times to close them.
Model Number: 50-00-01
Price at Time of Testing: $9 for 15 bags
- Ease of Use
- Performance
These 11 by 6½-inch wax-coated bags resemble bakery bags, but their insides have the same porous plastic layer used in Formaticum Cheese Paper. The bags kept Brie, cheddar, and goat cheeses free of mold and dryness for three weeks, letting the cheddar dry out just slightly in the fourth week. Slightly more convenient to use than the cheese paper, the bags didn’t need stickers to seal: We just folded over the ends a few times to close them.
Model Number: 50-00-01
Price at Time of Testing: $9 for 15 bags
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What You Need to Know
Keeping cheese fresh in the refrigerator is tricky. As cheese releases moisture, tight wrappings encourage mold; loose ones let it dry out and harden. But one cheese-wrap outfitter uses a two-ply material—wax-coated paper lined with thin, porous polyethylene plastic—in both its Cheese Paper (about $9 for 15 sheets with stickers) and Cheese Bags (roughly $9 for 15 bags). This combination (often used by professional cheesemongers) has a salutary effect, allowing moisture to wick off the cheese but not escape entirely. We wrapped cheddar, Brie, and goat cheese in both the paper and the bags, put them in the refrigerator, and checked on them every other day for a month. Both products kept all cheese types pristine for two weeks longer than identical samples that we double-wrapped with parchment and aluminum foil. Slightly more convenient to use than the cheese paper, the bags didn’t need to be sealed with stickers: Just fold over the ends a few times to close.
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Highly Recommended
- Ease of Use
- Performance
WinnerFormaticum Cheese Bags
These 11 by 6½-inch wax-coated bags resemble bakery bags, but their insides have the same porous plastic layer used in Formaticum Cheese Paper. The bags kept Brie, cheddar, and goat cheeses free of mold and dryness for three weeks, letting the cheddar dry out just slightly in the fourth week. Slightly more convenient to use than the cheese paper, the bags didn’t need stickers to seal: We just folded over the ends a few times to close them.
Model Number: 50-00-01
Price at Time of Testing: $9 for 15 bags
- Ease of Use
- Performance
These 11 by 6½-inch wax-coated bags resemble bakery bags, but their insides have the same porous plastic layer used in Formaticum Cheese Paper. The bags kept Brie, cheddar, and goat cheeses free of mold and dryness for three weeks, letting the cheddar dry out just slightly in the fourth week. Slightly more convenient to use than the cheese paper, the bags didn’t need stickers to seal: We just folded over the ends a few times to close them.
Model Number: 50-00-01
Price at Time of Testing: $9 for 15 bags
- Ease of Use
- Performance
Formaticum Cheese Paper
This wax-coated paper, lined with thin, porous plastic, kept cheddar, Brie, and goat cheeses free of mold and dryness for three solid weeks (though by week four the cheddar developed traces of mold). You get a box of fifteen 11 by 6 1/4-inch sheets, with stickers for sealing and labeling the wrapped cheese. Simple and durable, the sheets let us open and rewrap cheese multiple times.
Model Number: 50-00-01
Price at Time of Testing: $9 for 15 sheets with stickers
- Ease of Use
- Performance
This wax-coated paper, lined with thin, porous plastic, kept cheddar, Brie, and goat cheeses free of mold and dryness for three solid weeks (though by week four the cheddar developed traces of mold). You get a box of fifteen 11 by 6 1/4-inch sheets, with stickers for sealing and labeling the wrapped cheese. Simple and durable, the sheets let us open and rewrap cheese multiple times.
Model Number: 50-00-01
Price at Time of Testing: $9 for 15 sheets with stickers
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