Can I Cut the Cheese?

[pensrock]

CentPAS, I have done many many blocks of Cooper. Out of all the cheeses I do its the most popular followed by horseradish cheese. I probably average a hundred pounds of cheese a year.

[SoCalBuilder]

Does the smoking somehow extend the life of the cheese? I've opened cheddar and then put in a ziplock and then into the special little cheese drawer in the fridge. After a few months, some of it is pounding on the fridge door trying to escape!

[pensrock]

SoCal, I do not know why but smoking seems to keep any molds from forming. I just opened some cheese I smoked over a year ago and its like the day I put it into the fridge. This was not vac packed, just put into a ziploc bag and put into the fridge.