I was wondering if anyone has tried any of the non-adhesive non-slip rubber shelf lining material as a draining mat? It comes in several colors and textures and a piece 2' x 5' is about $3.00 at the local stores. I figure for that price I'll at least have to try it. I picked up a roll of it in off-white and the finer textured surface so we'll see.
Tim, I looked at some normally rolled foam mat material here (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,85.0.html) but decided against it as porous and thus harbour mold that I wouldn't be able to eradicate.
Not sure it's the same as your rubber matting.
This is "griprite" non-slip, washable, shelfliner. It seems to be put out by "Kittrich". If nothing else I think that as long as it won't stick to the curd it could be used one time and then discarded if there was a problem with mold. It seems to be non-porous other than the weave.
Good news should work and just stick in dishwasher every now and then, let us know results and picture please if you go for it!
Just make sure if curds are actually touching it that's it food safe.
Here's a pic of it and the label.
I wouldn't use that for the above reasons. If there is a restaurant supply store near you then they will have plastic shelf liner sold by the foot. The stuff you have is more of a foam.
Party pooper, no, just kidding, thanks for the input. Well it can go to my worm barn to sit bait cups and lids on. That's where I spend most of my off time, with 45 bins of 6 different types of worms raising them for the bait market I spend a lot of time digging in worm beds and counting out
worms into the little plastic cups with peat moss. I just finished a concrete minnow vat this weekend. I'll have to check to see if I can feed the whey to the worms without too much of an acidity problem. Now that's thinking like a recycler.
Very creative. Yeah you just want to be absolutely safe about the materials you use in something that's going to be eaten.
If you need some I do have some professional cheesemaking mesh in stock. Just let me know how many feet you need and I'll get a price.