There is one more thing I should address in this make and that is the use of a optional attachment to the mold. You can purchase a divider for the inside of the mold to make four smaller cheeses rather than one big one. I would not recommend you use this until you have reached the brining stage. You can then insert it into the mold and cut the cheese into four equal parts prior to brining. My reasoning behind this is twofold. One the divider only extends halfway through the mold. To have it completely divide the mold you would have to purchase two if them. Second, there is a reason a manhole cover is round. Cheeses in a round mold, like manhole covers, cannot rotate in the vertical axis when flipped unless very thin. Square cheeses however can, and will, make every attempt to do so. I learned this the first time I tried to flip the Taleggio mold without pushing it up from the bottom first. The dividers edges have small dimples on them that lock it into the holes in the mold so it would be an easy task to insert it into the top of the mold, with the cheese in the bottom, and push the cheese up to cut it into four equal squares prior to removing it for brining.