Cheese! Perhaps there is no person who does not like cheese. What a morning without a sandwich with a piece of cheese and a cup of hot coffee? Is not it wonderful? In addition, there are a lot of types of cheese and every person will find himself to taste whether this is another cheese: fresh, salted with or without additives. Today we will pay attention to cheese with such an interesting name as parmesan, and also find out how to store grated parmesan.
Parmesan cheese
Parmesan refers to hard cheeses of Italian origin. Its correct name is Parmigiano Reggiano, or Parmigiano Reggiano. Cheese head parmesan is very large - about 40 kg, so the sale of cheese is already packed.
Parmesan storage
If you have bought quite a lot of cheese, then you just need to know how to properly store Parmesan.
- Have you bought a head or a large piece of such an exquisite kind of cheese like parmesan? Save it in this form is easy. Wrap the cheese in a cloth or gauze. To do this, it is soaked in water for several minutes, and then carefully squeezed, letting completely drain the water. The fabric should be moist, but not wet. Wrapping cheese in a cloth, on top of all this "composition" wrapped in polyethylene film or ordinary aluminum foil. This will prevent the fabric from drying out. Then all this package is safely placed in the refrigerator in a dry compartment. If you bought the cheese for future use, you can store it in a freezer.
- Grated Parmesan can be stored in special hermetic containers, followed by wrapping in foil and placing in a refrigerator. This method allows you to store grated cheese for a week. But then it is better to use such cheese as an additive to sauces, and not as a powder.
As for special dishes, which is designed to store grated Parmesan cheese or so-called Parmesan. It can be of two types:
- Something in appearance resembling a salt cellar, only larger in size and with the presence of a strainer. Through this adaptation of the cheese simply pour on the already prepared dish.
- This type of parmesanza is a small vessel with a lid or spoon, which measure the necessary amount of cheese and add to the dish.
When using parmesan cheese, grated Parmesan can be stored for up to a month and at the same time preserving all the palatability and useful qualities.
Cheese-making production has several varieties of world famous cheese with exquisite taste, including parmesan cheese. It does not matter which dishes and how you will use parmesan, and just how long you are going to store it and in what form. But still it is better to eat it immediately, because the true taste and smell of cheese can convey only freshly cut slices and slices.