I had high hopes that the Visanni wine cooler would make a great cheese cave. Even after reading reviews from the Home Depot website that were about 50/50. After it was plugged in and running, though, the warmest temperature I could get was 53-degrees. I would have liked to see 58. The machines had six colder settings than #1 that I was using! Well it did maintain that 53 pretty consistantly (made it hard to get a relative humidity anywhere near the 80% I wanted) ... only for about 10 days!
Then it started keeping 42 degrees! No Way! If I wanted it that cold I could just but the cheese in my refrigerator.
So I boxed it all back up and took it back to Home Depot for a refund.
The latest brie is in confinement down cellar and is showing a good growth of white mold. The older bries are now wrapped in a special cheese paper and are stored in my refrigerator. (as per recipe directions)
After I cut one of the first ones open later this week, I'll post my impressions.
Don't know what the next cheese cave attempt is going to be, so until I get that figured out, I'll have to hold off on making any more.
Cheesey-boy
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