A Cheese for all seasons

[Badger]

What's the best cheese to take on board for an extended cruise that will keep fresh without refrigeration ?

 

[peterb]

According to Treasure Island, Parmesan.

 

[Mirelle]

Lin Pardey has a useful section on storing cheese in olive oil. Makes sense.

Edam is a very boring cheese but a whole one keeps remarkably well - until you cut it.

Most supermarket plastic wrapped and heat sealed cheeses do reasonably well.

 

[Guest]

What about the cheese in the toothpaste tubes? you did ask /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Forbsie]

There is a Spanish cheese that is sold in tins. Manchego, I think.

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[jimi]

a big one /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

 

[Gunfleet]

Dutch cheese sealedin wax keeps, so a couple of little Dutch cheeses keeps nicely. You did want a serious reply, I presume?

 

[BrendanS]

..in which case, a complete wheel of blue cheese. So covered in mould, that nothing else willl grow there ( these moulds are similar to penecillin, and kill off other moulds and bacterial growths)

 

[Ohdrat]

Sardo Pecorino.. v hard cheese also from Itlay .. traditionally made in the S of Italy I believe and is older than refrigeration... so will survive in hot conditions.. It is "sweeter" than parmesan and is a little similar to an extremly hard but youngish cheddar, with less of the tangy after taste.. Sardo Pecorino can be used like paremsan or in salads with bread/crackers etc.. I love it.

Incidentally we used to keep a truckle of cheddar in our cellar and carve off wedges as we needed them.. If you buy truckles of hard cheese they will keep without refrigeration and if you buy a "young" truckle by the time you have finished (depending on consumption) it will have "matured"

 

[Cornishman]

Cornish Yarg - it's wrapped in stinging nettles