Fridge or freeze cheese

[pensrock]

the smoke does preserve it, i do not know the how or why but my smoked cheese over a year and a half old is fine. I had a small chunk I picked up from the store, left unsmoked in the drawer and seen mold on it in less than two months. it was the same kind of cheese.

[Smoking Alligator]

Exactly.  Smoking the cheese must consist of some sort of cure that preserves it.  Stunning and fabulous.