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Offline Schnecken Slayer

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #30 on: December 28, 2012, 11:57:08 AM »
Floor looks like the floor of a old milking shed we use to keep our Formula Fords in over in England.  Trough ran the length of the place.  Would love to have that setup here.


The trough is actually excavated to be able to stand up straight in the cellar. I did it only down the middle of the room partly to minimize the amount of dirt i had to carry up the stairs, partly due to the fact that I'm digging below the foundation of the house and it's built on unstable ground.

Here are some pics taken during the renovating:

You really have done a great job transforming that into a useable space. Well done.
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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #31 on: December 28, 2012, 12:40:14 PM »
What an impressive amount of work!  Looks wonderful and it's a nice illustration of having a vision and then putting in the sweat it takes to make it happen!  Thanks for the photos of the cave in progress.

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #32 on: December 28, 2012, 12:42:39 PM »

Please note the "high tech" Gauges for temperature taking :-)

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Oh, you have the same type of "high tech" gauges I use!   ;D  I like how many fridges you have.  I'm heading in that direction when warmer weather comes and my cold basement room no longer stays cold. 

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #33 on: December 28, 2012, 04:58:54 PM »
Looks like you did a lot of work and got an excellent result.  Awesome job!!
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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #34 on: January 08, 2013, 02:51:03 PM »
I just saw this thread. Nice photos. A lot of work there....

Someone that dedicated to the art deserves a cheese. ;)

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #35 on: January 08, 2013, 03:27:46 PM »
Boofer: Much obliged  8)

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #36 on: February 28, 2013, 11:27:11 PM »
Way late to this thread I realize, but here's my little "cave" with air drying cheeses in top box, 3 black waxed cheeses on the top shelf, and going down a Fontina, 3 Parms, a Gruyere, and finally some soaking sponges on the bottom to boost humidity.  Looking forward to waxing something in yellow and red to add some variety in there...and the waxes showed up in the mail today, yay!

(The pic will probably be small (complaint from the illustrious Boofer ;-) until I figure out a quick way to enlarge for these posts.)

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #37 on: March 01, 2013, 03:47:05 PM »
(The pic will probably be small (complaint from the illustrious Boofer ;-) until I figure out a quick way to enlarge for these posts.)
Sorry to be such a nag. :P

Most of the time the pics we take nowadays are too large and must be resized down, not resized up. What are you using to snap your pics?

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #38 on: March 02, 2013, 12:42:50 AM »
Boofer, just snapping them on my Droid phone, forwarding to my e-mail to download on my laptop...and then onto the forum. 

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #39 on: March 17, 2013, 03:08:57 PM »
My humble little cave.  Inside are my first Brie which is coming along nicely and an Emmental in the cool phase of affinage.

I also have Pepper Jack,Gouda, Havarti and a Colby waiting patiently to be gobbled up. In the spare bedroom is a Jarlsberg in its warm phase of affinage.

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #40 on: March 17, 2013, 07:46:39 PM »
Looks great!  Nice to see all those nice cheeses waiting patiently to make your day!   :D. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #41 on: March 17, 2013, 09:47:50 PM »
Well this was to be my cheese cave.

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #42 on: March 17, 2013, 10:11:39 PM »
All you guy's suck! this is what I have to deal with :( :-[
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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #43 on: March 17, 2013, 10:35:46 PM »
 ;D LMAO. If it wasn't for the wife I would have a room. That said she loves the cheese.

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Re: Will you share photos of your caves? and Mini-cave techniques?
« Reply #44 on: March 23, 2013, 06:37:21 AM »
Hi everyone. This is my mini-cave. It's a little wine cooler with some adaptions. You can see my last batches of hard goat's cheeses. The darker one its a Cabra al Vi, I did a wine bath with some of the local amazing wines. Hope you like it.