Two weeks ago, i made my first bach of molded goats cheese - molded in both senses of the word!
I used Penicillin Candidum solution sprayed on the cheeses and then left them at 12C and high humidity for 2 weeks, sitting on plastic cheese mat inside a metal container.
However, when I went to remove the cheeses from the mat today, the rind and mold of the base of each cheese had grown/melted into the grid of the plastic mat and there was no way to separate the cheeses from the mat.....I ended up with half a dozen lovely looking and tasting cheeses, but with no bottom! Of course, I flipped them upside down, so now the open bottoms are the tops....
Anyway.....how do I prevent this from happening again? This must be a common problem with a dead simple solution...
Thanks,
Alasdair