• WesternInfidels@feddit.online
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

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

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

      • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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        2 days ago

        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.

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          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.

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          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.

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    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.