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Jimmy Stang · 11-28-2019, 12:12 PM

This thread has been dormant for nearly four years, and that's a cryin' shame. Life is too short for bad cheese. Therefore I humbly bump this thread with two noteworthy contributions that have recently improved my cheese eating.

1) There is a President's Choice (in their fancy sounding "black label" line) called "Red Fox" that is amazing. It is a hard Red Leicester and it is a little bit crumbly and also has nice crunchy crystals inside. I got it in a cheese pack for breaking the magical $250 mark at Superstore a few weeks ago, and man oh man is it good. I even bought a different brand of Red Leicester (and more expensive) at Co-op because I happened to be there it was mediocre in comparison. And as long as you promise not to clean out the Hamptons location, it is on sale for $5 (was $8) for the next week or so with a limit of 4 per customer. Here's a link. There is also a similarly-named "White Fox" which is also good in its own right and is a crumbly Cheshire cheddar, but you can't even compare it to the red.

2) And also: cheese bags / cheese papers. Cheese storage is tricky, and even a cheese glutton like me can't do it all in one sitting. Plastic bags don't let it breathe so you get mould faster, leaving the bag open and even adding parchment paper makes it dry out unevenly. I have even tried combinations of wax paper, foil, and parchment based on online tips, each with no success and added hassle.

Enter the cheese bag. They are $20 for 15 on Amazon, but you can support a local shop and get 15 for $15 at Zest Kitchenware in Dalhousie. They aren't cheap, but they sure do keep cheese nice. I would consider them somewhere between parchment paper and wax paper, and have apparently been designed with the sole purpose of keeping cheese just right. I will never store cheese any other way. The brand is Formaticum and here's an Amazon link, but like I said, you can get them cheaper AND support local. They also have cheese papers, which are just sheets of the same material. I have found the bags to be really handy though.

11-28-2019, 12:12 PM	#37
Jimmy Stang Franchise Player Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Calgary Exp:	This thread has been dormant for nearly four years, and that's a cryin' shame. Life is too short for bad cheese. Therefore I humbly bump this thread with two noteworthy contributions that have recently improved my cheese eating. 1) There is a President's Choice (in their fancy sounding "black label" line) called "Red Fox" that is amazing. It is a hard Red Leicester and it is a little bit crumbly and also has nice crunchy crystals inside. I got it in a cheese pack for breaking the magical $250 mark at Superstore a few weeks ago, and man oh man is it good. I even bought a different brand of Red Leicester (and more expensive) at Co-op because I happened to be there it was mediocre in comparison. And as long as you promise not to clean out the Hamptons location, it is on sale for $5 (was $8) for the next week or so with a limit of 4 per customer. Here's a link. There is also a similarly-named "White Fox" which is also good in its own right and is a crumbly Cheshire cheddar, but you can't even compare it to the red. 2) And also: cheese bags / cheese papers. Cheese storage is tricky, and even a cheese glutton like me can't do it all in one sitting. Plastic bags don't let it breathe so you get mould faster, leaving the bag open and even adding parchment paper makes it dry out unevenly. I have even tried combinations of wax paper, foil, and parchment based on online tips, each with no success and added hassle. Enter the cheese bag. They are $20 for 15 on Amazon, but you can support a local shop and get 15 for $15 at Zest Kitchenware in Dalhousie. They aren't cheap, but they sure do keep cheese nice. I would consider them somewhere between parchment paper and wax paper, and have apparently been designed with the sole purpose of keeping cheese just right. I will never store cheese any other way. The brand is Formaticum and here's an Amazon link, but like I said, you can get them cheaper AND support local. They also have cheese papers, which are just sheets of the same material. I have found the bags to be really handy though.