Hi. My husband and I have recently started making cheese and we were wondering what the best way to clean these fabrics would be. I don't know that I should throw them in the laundry with other items I normally wash. Thanks for your help.
It depends on the type of cheesecloth. If I am using the cheap cheese cloth sold in Walmart's, I throw it away after a single use because the threads travel when it is washed. But if I am using muslin type material, I usually wash it by hand in the sink first to remove the curd particles and such, and then I throw it in a bleach load. Others may do something different but this has worked for me.
Hi Karen, welcome to the forum, it's kind of hard to find but there is a good discusion on Cleaning Cheese Cloth/Muslin here (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,96.0.html).
Thanks! Appreciate your help!
Karen, I just realized this was your first post. Please forgive me for not welcoming you to this great forum. Good luck with your cheesemaking!
Welcome Karen! I scrum mine by hand in the sink then throw them in boiling water mostly.
Welcome to another Karen!
I rinse my cheesecloth (loose weave cotton/poly blend that I bought by the yard at Walmart), in lukewarm water, then hang it to dry on a rack. I wash cheesecloth along with other bleached items and machine dry them.
Karen,
I find this (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,2584.0.html) stuff very easy to clean. I put my cloths in a mesh bag, wash them with dish towels and bleach, dry in the dryer, store in a Ziploc and steam sanitize before use.