Cheese goes into the Cave

Maggie was able to get another couple of gallons of milk from her Amish friend last week, so we made another wheel of cheese. We again made a simple fsrmhouse cheddar. After air curing for several days, the wheel of cheese was vacuum-sealed and placed in our 'cheese cave', which is a wine refrigerator I bought off Facebook Marketplace. We just need to wait 2 months for it to age, before we give it a try.

Some may ask what happened to the first wheel of cheese we made. Most of the flat surfaces in our house are occupied, so I put the cheese on a bedroom desk to cure, and covered it with a small screen tent used for picnic food. Unfortunately, I left the door ajar and our dog found it. It must have tasted pretty good, because there was nothing left. Good thing the new cheese cave has a lock.

The scene of the crime