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Default Storing Home-Grated Cheese

On Oct 18, 4:21*pm, Chemo > wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2:12*pm, "Steve Freides" > wrote:
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> > Sqwertz wrote:
> > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:54:05 -0400, Steve Freides wrote:

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> > >> 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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> > > Also, here's a decent article worth reading:

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> > > <http://powderedcellulose.com/wp-content/themes/agency-sweetener-suppl...>

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> > > -sw

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> > An interesting article, I agree. *I wonder if this would work?

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> >http://www.amazon.com/Alaven-Unifibe...e-Laxatives/dp...

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> > Looks like the right thing - not sure why it says it's for laxatives - a
> > small amount in my grated cheese seems worth a try.

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> > As to why pre-shred, it's all about schedule - my wife doesn't want to
> > have to grate/shred the cheese, and because I give music lessons for
> > most of my living, the hours between when school ends and dinner time
> > are my main teaching time and I'm thus unavailable to do this for her -
> > and she never knows how much she'll want, so the solution has to be to
> > give her what she's asking for, a bag of grated cheese she can know is
> > in the 'fridge.

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> > -S-

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> It takes seconds to grate/shred cheese. I can't understand why she
> doesn't want to do it...afterall, she's in the kitchen making dinner
> anyway.


Perhaps he/she/it is cooking for Julie.
 
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