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What (if anything) is lost in terms of quality, flavor, or texture when cheese is precut and sold wrapped in plastic at a supermarket versus cut to order?<\/div>\n
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The level of attention given to cheese care at a market is often the most important indicator of quality, regardless of whether it\u2019s cut to order or precut and wrapped. Generally speaking, though, buying cheese from a shop that custom-cuts your cheese just before purchase is ideal, since a minimum amount of the cheese\u2019s surface area has been exposed to things that can spoil it, such as rogue bacteria, oxidation, and off odors (the smell of a stale refrigerated cheese case is the worst!). It may cost a bit more, but spending a little extra on fresh-cut cheese is often worth it, especially if you buy just what you\u2019ll eat within a couple of days. Best of all, when you buy cheese from a full-service monger, you can sample it first to be sure it\u2019s up to your<\/em> standards.<\/p>\n

That said, even cheesemongers committed to a cut-to-order program know that time-pressed shoppers need a grab-and-go selection of wrapped cheese to choose from. The best of these are filled with small cuts of popular cheeses that will sell within three or four days so the stock can be continuously rotated. Diligent mongers will also scrape and rewrap any cheeses that have been in plastic more than a few days, or they\u2019ll wrap the cut cheeses in special two-ply cheese paper to protect their quality. With such frequent handling, the experienced monger is better able to assess the shelf life of every cheese on sale. And therein lies the secret to buying great cheese—from the counter or the case.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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