Hi guys and ladies,
my question, in the room I have my 2 week old Stilton (room temp 53deg-58) there is a window its on the north side of the house but the neighbor's house reflects sun light back to the room even with shades there is still semi light in the room, should I block off all light and keep it as dark as possible? I am sure where everyone talks about cheese caves and refrigerators this suggests pitch black, so maybe I just answered my own question.
H-K-J
Yep, there shouldn't be any sunlight. Light makes the fats go rancid. I even removed my fridges light bulb.
It will also discolor cheese. For example, if you see a pinkish color to the outer surface layer of a cheddar or other annato cheese, and it is not an infection (by serratia or b linens, for example), then it was light damaged.
Thank you for responding
after posting I placed my ageing container inside my 24 qt stainless cooking pot with the lid on and then placed both of them inside a pantry type storage closet, I think this should keep the temp the same yet no light hope to build a controllable cave soon.
I hope I haven't screwed this up it was looking so good :-\
No pink just started to notice some slippage and a slight white mold growth but I thought that could be from to high humidity have done an adjustment on that also thanks so much for your input :)
H-K-J