First Cloth Bound Cheddar

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The thing I find with Cloth Banded cheese is that while being wrapped in all that lovely Lard there is still a small amount of gas and water exchange which does tend to add to the complexity of the cheese.  I have waxed and Vac Bagged cheddars of the same make and they don't have that 'something' that makes a cloth banded stand apart from the rest. Its like the difference between playing a vinyl record and listening to the same song on the Ipod - same same song different feel - that something .  I think as I mentioned I'm a three layer kind of guy and lots of lard - the more you have the more mould has to get through before getting to the cheese.  I'm shying away from waxing and leaning either towards Vacuum Bagging for the short aging 1-3 months, natural rinds now I can control the humidity in my fridge a bit better with the 'Cave Cube' or cloth bandage for the longer term ones - you can very nicely bandage any semi-firm to hard cheese though the dryer the better. 

-- My two bits anyway    Mal