On the Food & Beverage Buzz blog, I saw a post on cheese paper. Preserving cheese can be a tricky task, and it is one I have messed up more than once. But a person can now buy good cheese paper and with a little bit of wrapping instruction (below), cheese can last a lot longer. You can read the blog post for more information or go to the company website linked below. Dave the Wine Merchant tested the paper with various cheeses and found it worked very well at maintaining the quality of the cheese.
The paper is produced by a company called Formaticum out of Portland, Orgeon. It is not cheap at $9 for 15 sheets, but when you are preserving some of the most valuable food items in your fridge, I think it is well worth it. The paper consists of two layers: an inner one of porous plastic and an outer one of waxed paper. The materials allow the slow exchange of oxygen while also regulating humidity as this is what cheese needs to stay alive. Sealing it in plastic will suffocate it and ruin your cheese.
The best thing to do is look on the Formaticum website to see if there is a retailer near you, but you can also shop online with Formaticum directly or through Sur La Table. If you buy it through Amazon
Here is the video on how to wrap cheese. With the some cheese paper and a little instruction, you will look like a pro cheese monger.
How To Wrap Cheese from Formaticum on Vimeo.
