H-K-J' 3rd Emmental (with eye's?)

[Al Lewis]

Have to check into a couple of these.  I have cedar planks for cooking salmon but that's about it.  Sure we have plenty of fir and spruce up here.  I have 16, 150 foot firs in the backyard.  Another shopping item for the weekend. :o

[Alpkäserei]

16 150 ft firs? oo can I have them, I could make a house out of those...

[High Altitude]

Thanks Alp...great info.  I noticed my Jarlsberg is sweating fat (so now I know that's a good thing :-), so am wondering if it is appropriate to rub it with salt once in a while...would that be to keep any molds at bay?  After 6 days now in the warm period, it still looks and smells good, is not drying out, nor is it developing any molds.  Maybe I should just leave it be unless it starts to do something funky?

If one were to leave a brine-washed cheese (like my Fontina) out for 1-2 hours for air, it would totally dry out in my climate, which is about 20-25% humidity indoors.  So I'm guessing you mean to leave it out to "breath" first and then apply the wash just before putting back in the cave?  I have been washing and then letting it dry out before I put back in the cave, so I'm probably really drying out my rind TOO much  ???!

You are a wealth of information  :).

[H-K-J]

I may be expecting to much, yet my Elemental has no signs of PS growth after 3 days at around 73 to 75 deg f. looks great, smells great and is developing a nice looking rind. it has started to develop a nice slightly yellow color,
so, am I being impatient as usual?  :-\

[Al Lewis]

Not sure.  Apparently there are different PS strains and some of them are low gas producing.  We may have the wrong ones.  Have to ask Alp which ones are best to blow up a cheese. :o

[H-K-J]

This sucks :P
I am going to look at what I have
just gettin disappointed DANG :(

[Al Lewis]

Yeah, I'm going to do a little more studying on this before I jump into anything.

[Schnecken Slayer]

This sucks :P
I am going to look at what I have
just gettin disappointed DANG :(

How long has it been warm aging? mine did practically nothing until about 2 1/2 weeks and then it swelled nicely.

[Boofer]

my Elemental has no signs of PS growth after 3 days

Yeah, you want to wait a bit for the PS bacteria in your Elemental (sic) to propagate. Soon as you get a PS flashmob going, they should start belching out the CO2. We can be talking weeks here, not days.

I may be expecting to much, am I being impatient as usual?  :-\

You think?! ;)

-Boofer-

[H-K-J]

OK,OK, I'll quit whining now ::) ;)

[BobE102330]

OK,OK, I'll quit winning now ::) ;)

Who do you think you are, Charlie Sheen?  ;) 

[Boofer]

I think he meant "whining". ???   Hey, you knew that! :P

-Boofer-

[H-K-J]

The first pix is before wash, then after wash 8)

[JeffHamm]

Some smear going on there.  Well done.

From what I've read, doesn't the swelling take a couple weeks normally?

- Jeff

[Al Lewis]

Sweet!!  Give it four weeks or so and it will be nice and bloated!! ;D