{"id":3492,"date":"2014-02-09T20:04:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T01:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2014-02-09T20:04:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T01:04:16","slug":"opening-cheese-shop-dummies-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/opening-cheese-shop-dummies-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening a Cheese-Shop \u2026 For Dummies Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guest blog series is by Andy Swinscoe, who recently opened The Courtyard Dairy<\/a> in North Yorkshire, England.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Part Three – chilling it down.<\/h3>\n

Refrigeration. You probably know this, but chilling any space generally sucks moisture out of the air. That would not only affect the quality of my cheese but would mean the cheese loses weight (and as my product is sold by weight\u2026). I wanted to chill the whole shop down to 13\u00b0C (55.5\u00b0F), to mature and store most of the cheeses, and also have a little fridge kept colder so I could control the maturation of the soft and blue cheeses. To me, not just holding the cheese in a cold store was of fundamental importance\u2013I wanted to hold the cheeses in the absolute best possible conditions, so that they would continue to improve rather than deteriorate. There is no point buying the best product in the world then letting it wither and die in your shop. It had to be sold at its optimum\u2013with me refining and aging each cheese in the best conditions till it got there!<\/p>\n

But I had some key criteria: In order not too lose too much moisture the refrigeration could not be too aggressive. So I investigated several avenues:<\/p>\n

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  • A static cooler (great for gentle cooling, but with the shop\u2019s open door maybe not strong enough)<\/li>\n
  • Beer cooling lines (again really gentle but nowhere near powerful enough, good for a sealed maturing room but not for an open shop)<\/li>\n
  • Air-con units (dry the air too much)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    I finally settled on a low-velocity overhead unit. I reduced how aggressive the cooling would be by lowering the delta T (temperature difference across the coil), by carefully managing the fin spacing, by selecting the appropriate coolant type, and by under-specifying the condenser.<\/p>\n

    I then called in several refrigeration engineers* and obtained lots of different quotes and specifications (the loading required to chill my shop seemed to varied massively between engineers). So I got advice from someone I trust; a man seen as the refrigeration demi-god for cheese in the UK, Alan Hayes. We analyzed the thickness and material of the walls, roof insulation, window size, surrounding area, annual temperatures, and orientation of the shop. Basically my shop in the north of England doesn\u2019t need much chilling, as a solid old barn it is pretty much like a cave, but it does need a evaporator just in case we do ever get that heat wave like the one my grandparents remember from their childhood.<\/p>\n

    Job done. Or so I thought. To get my evaporator and get the coils sealed (so they aren\u2019t affected by the ammonia given off by cheese) was a six-week turnaround. But I wanted to be open before Christmas! So I located a cheap emergency over-counter fridge that I could use to store cheese overnight. I was confident that as long as we could rotate those out on display it would be OK (plus measuring the min-max temperature in the shop had shown that in the last month it had gone no higher than 14\u00b0C). So I bid on the battered fridge for \u00a3100, and\u2026got it. Then, with a few friends, I went to pick it up. Battered is not the word. An ex-kebab shop fridge, it was still stained with chili sauce all down the side, and hadn\u2019t been cleaned inside at all. I delegated the cleaning.<\/p>\n

    Fully cleaned, I switched it on. Nothing. I had a look at the wiring\u2013a bit dodgy to say the least. So I asked my refrigeration engineer to have a look at it. He just looked at it, blew out through his lips and gave a typical \u2018builder\u2019 shrug.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThis fridge should be dead,\u201d he said, \u201cit should have gone to fridge heaven.\u201d Could he make it work, even if just for one month? Of course he could so long as I promised faithfully to get it properly disposed of when the overhead chiller was installed.<\/p>\n

    Job done at last. The shop could open. Or so I thought: My Italian \u2018coffin\u2019 fridge (for the blue cheeses) arrived flat packed on the eve of opening day\u2013with only Italian instructions, and enough nuts, bolts, and washers to repair the Eiffel Tower. Some choice words and nine hours later we made it! Officially open at last! On the 3rd December 2012.<\/p>\n

    * The best people for refrigeration advice I found were people fitting out commercial bakers \u2013 as they need to chill premises down fast and keep moisture in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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