[Cheese] Blue cheese a foul

[Jack Schmidling]

What I do with blue cheese is to put it in the plastic shoe box with a 
hygrometer.  I mentioned that leaving about 1" open at the end produces 
about 95% humidity.  This was determined by using the hygrometer.

It should also be noted that it was in my particular fridge and it's 
particular temp.  So you need to work it out yourself but the urban 
legend of putting a pan of water in the fridge is useless.  Nowhere near 
the amount of moisture will be produced.... sometimes.

The other issue is that the more the fridge runs, the dryer it will be. 
  So you need to ponder that variable.  In summer it may be very dry and 
in Winter very humid.  The only way to know is to measure it and control 
the immediate environment of the cheese... hence the shoe box and 
hygrometer.

js

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