On Oct 18, 3:33*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:21:36 -0400, "Steve Freides" >
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> >Chemo wrote:
> >> On Oct 18, 12:54 pm, "Steve Freides" > wrote:
> >>> Anything one can add to home-grated sharp cheddar to keep it
> >>> "fluffy?" My wife likes store-bought grated cheese, I prefer my
> >>> grass-fed cheddar so I grated an entire block, wasn't much, today,
> >>> and put it in a gallon zip-top bag in the refrigerator. Mine is
> >>> already not so "fluffy".
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> >>> Cornstrach, flour, some sort of OK-but-sounds-terrible chemical they
> >>> use in food processing?
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> >>> Guesses are fine, but if someone actually has a real-world answer,
> >>> that's what I'm looking for.
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> >>> Thanks in advance.
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> >>> -S-
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> >> What made you grate the whole block?
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> >She said she wanted me to buy a bag of grated cheese - she wants it
> >there, grated, when she cooks. *My wife does most of the cooking, I do
> >most of the shopping. *I wanted _not_ to buy a pre-grated bag of
> >cheese - too expensive, and not the grass-fed cheddar I like, thus my
> >attempt to mimick packaged grated cheese. *Mind you, she commutes to a
> >full-time job and I work from home most of the time - I really
> >appreciate that she's willing to do most of the cooking and want to
> >accomodate her request as best I'm able while still trying to keep the
> >better quality, less expensive food item if I can. *It took my all of 5
> >minutes to grate that much cheese - might even be a way to do it in the
> >food processor for all I know.
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> Where do you find grating cheddar cheese... I've never seen dried
> cheddar in blocks, in fact I've never seen pre-grated cheddar, only
> cheddar powder like comes with mac n' cheese. *Perhaps you're talking
> shredded cheddar... that's easy to find and freezes well, and that's
> what normal folks use for cooking.

Yes I have several bags of pre-grated cheddar n my deep-freeze in the
basement, I didn't know what the hell dried cheddar blocks were,
either.