Every year we do tomato sauce with my friends and we decided to ramp it up with getting a wheel of cheese this year. Ordered it through a local grocery store. Excited to show it off. What’s the best way to open it up. Do I wash off the mold?
by Cars-and-Crosbie
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What, you ate a whole wheel of cheese? I’m not even mad, I’m just impressed.
Wow what type of cheese is it? How much did it cost?
That’s Parmigiano reggiano, I’m guessing about 85 pounds and a retail in my area of about $23/lb. So right around $2k
40kilos of 2 year DOP Parm
White vinegar and water (75/25), *very* lightly dampen a rag or paper towel, and rub all the mold off, then let air dry.
Do this well before you cut into it! That way it will have plenty of time for the rind to dry back out, and you won’t risk dragging mold into the interior.
That’s a move!! Ideally you want to brush it. You can buy a cheap cloth brush and remove all the growth of the rind. You don’t need, but I suppose a few of your friends will prefer that. If not you can just wipe it with a clean cloth
What’s your address? I promise I ain’t planning a cheese heist.
Man if you guys can ball like that and drop the 2 grand or so that cost…. Then I’d tell you the best way to open it is to use some parm cracking knives and do it legit. You’re at minimum 80 bucks or so for a set, and that’s probably not a great one. But thats gonna feel the most legit.
That mold is actually called *penicillin parmigiano,* and would make a great addition to your tomato sauce!
What is a sauce party?
Hello, do you need a wife/husband/child/nanny/maid/sex slave? Because I will do any/all of those just so I can motorboat that cheese.
And again I’m reminded of how poor I am.
I thought this was a coffee table
Seems like a good opportunity to do [pasta alla ruota](https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/pasta-alla-ruota).
I will also throw in my two cents for cleaning the rind up: I only use brine to wash molds off of grana style cheeses. Salt + water means no other ingredient added to the food product. I was never a fan of adding vinegar to the mix. I’ve even dry rubbed the rind with coarse salt to remove it.
Also, if you don’t use all of this and there’s more leftover than you know what to do with, cut and vacuum seal wedges. They will last for a long, long time that way.
You should eat it right goddamn now
it’s covered in mold! into the trash.
I honestly chose the wrong friends in life
I think that’s too much cheese for however many people you invited. So yes, I will come and assist.
cheese and tomato sauce with friends, there is a lot of love here!
You know those naked sushi girls that lay there with the sushi on them for people to eat off of? Well I will totally volunteer doing this but with your wheel of cheese
You’ll be fine. Don’t eat the green part.
Use a rag and some white vinegar to wipe off the mold and you should be good!
Yeah some vinegar mixed with water on a paper towel just wipe it off