Aged Like Cheese

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Object@sh.itjust.works · 81 pts · 116d (1 reply)

food now has region lock 🥀🥀

blueberry_tart@piefed.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 116d

widewine food DRM smh

zxqwas@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 116d (8 replies)

A lot of food tastes the best a short time before it spoils.

Fresh beef tastes good. One day old beef tastes like chewing on a rubber piece. Stored at the right temperature in a low moisture atmosphere for 4 weeks it turns into exclusive dry aged beef. One more week and it's spoiled.

Damage@slrpnk.net · 49 pts · 115d (1 reply)

This is a different thing. It's because it's aged as a cheese wheel in controlled conditions, when you buy it, it's not a wheel anymore, it's been opened and you buy a wedge, hence it's open to contamination.

It's still unlikely for a 7 year aged cheese to go bad in two weeks unleass you store it unrefrigerated, but if you vacuum seal it, it will last a long time.

heartpunk25@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 115d

I know with veggies you can ferment them in a jar with the right amount of salt in the water. You just can never let the ones in the jar touch the air or the bad bacteria takes over.

Soup@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 115d

Dry-aged beef has spoiled. The trick to it is that you need a fairly large piece, like a whole leg or side, and then you trim off all the bad stuff on the outside. More simply, they don’t butcher it then age it. If you go buy a piece of dry-aged beef it’s gunna act a lot like any other piece of meat but if it hadn’t been butchered you could just keep aging it beyond when this individual piece would have gone bad.

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 7 pts · 115d (4 replies)

It tasts better before it spoils? Pffft please, who told you that?

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 115d

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 115d (2 replies)

And, here I've been leaving it out on the counter for a month before eating it. I just thought I didn't like beef.

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 115d

Ahh, high meat. A man of culture. Gut culture, that isn't endemic.

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 1 pts · 115d

Just put some salt on it

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 116d

H U M I D I T Y

WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 17 pts · 115d (1 reply)

I was profoundly skeptical when someone in my household brought home some "Cheese Storage Bags" that appeared to be made of wax paper. They cost around a dollar apiece, and since there's really no way to clean them, they're pretty much disposable. Insane scam, I thought. Someone just loves shopping, I thought.

But no, they absolutely worked, hard cheeses keep in the deli drawer way better in those bags. In the past I had tried wrapping cheese in wax paper or parchment paper, with little success. The stupid cheese bags were so much better. I can't explain. Still mad about it. Also we need more cheese bags.

Shootfast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 114d

RejZoR@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 115d (6 replies)

Like Himalayan salt. Hundreds of thousands of years old, shelf life of 2 years...

666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 115d

The shelf life on any salt packaging is most likely for the package itself.

Cytobit@piefed.social · 10 pts · 115d (4 replies)

I suppose anyone gullible enough to buy Himalayan salt is also gullible enough to believe salt expires.

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 115d (3 replies)

What's wrong with preferring pink salt over table salt? It's probably confirmation bias but I like the taste better and it isn't any more expensive than decent rock salt.

rainwall@piefed.social · 4 pts · 115d

Pink salt has a different mineralogy than other salt which does affect the flavor.

Part of eating is also visual enjoyment, so even if the texture/taste was exactly the same, you enjoying looking at it is also part of the experience.

PoopingCough@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d (1 reply)

Only thing is that table salt contains iodine which is something our body needs and generally we don't get from a lot of other sources. So if you completely switch over to pink salt you might see problems with iodine deficiency.

maccentric@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 115d
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Okokimup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d

Its just sparkling mold.

starchylemming@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d

classic french shenanigans

Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 115d

If it's really dry cheese it might not like being in a refrigerator for long stretches of time. Can work with a hermetic container though.

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 115d

Not the correct sort of fridge??

Ah, smeg

Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 111d (1 reply)

Where can we buy fridges from the right region of France to have our cheese keep longer?

pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 111d

In France.

kepix@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 115d (1 reply)

the cheese you get at the supermarket is not exactly cheese

general_kitten@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 115d

depends on what you buy from there

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · -11 pts · 116d (4 replies)

Wow. How bad at food do you have to be to have cheese go bad in two weeks?

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d (1 reply)

you didn't even ask what cheese type. some spoil faster than others.

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 115d

I don't have to ask, it's right there in the image: It's an aged (hard) cheese.

drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 5 pts · 115d (1 reply)

Yeah how dare people let food that's

checks notes

high in fats, sugars, and possibly moisture spoil so easily.

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 115d

Ah, yes, the 8-year-old queso fresco.