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Okay, cheese people - explain this to me
The gift boxes we got have cheddar, pepper jack, colby...and something else. I can't remember. The cheeses says "keep refrigerated", but they didn't arrive to us refrigerated.
We stuck them in my boss's garage because no one has room for 35 boxes of cheese in a fridge. Is that okay??
Think the cheese will be rotten?? (Isn't cheese rotten anyway?)
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Re: Okay, cheese people - explain this to me
Ditto City. Hard cheeses are usually refrigerate after opening/don't store in the oven.
While I do refrigerate unopened cheese at home (just for storage), I've sent vacuumed sealed Parmesan and aged pecorino back home w/o a problem (it didn't mold and no one died
, transit time was probably 7-10days).
Even the shrink wrapped softer cheeses can be OK. The ones you get in mail order gift sets are specially pasturized to sustain tempertues that would have most store bought cheeses molding.
And, VA, you don't have problems shipping cheese to the states? Once when I came back from Italy, customs confiscated all my food products, even though they were shrink wrapped.
No, knock on wood (I have some in Xmas packages as we "speak"), I haven't had a problem sending cheese, cured meats, or olive oil. I've always id'd it on the customs form and haven't had a problem yet.
I really surprised customs would confiscate cheese. Hell, the airport here has a whole "to-go" wrapped in Styrofoam mozzarella packs. Seriously. I've only been back to see my family once, so haven't made the time to try it-- I thought it would be a problem in the States w/ connecting flights b/c the cheese is in water. I don't think it's an allergen/bacteria thing though.
I for sure know that there are restrictions on mailing fresh fruits and veggies (obviously I wouldn't want to mail, if I could) and booze-- which sucks, b/c I'd love to be able to mail wine. I should add, that's for the USPS. I believe you can send wine through international services like MBE (which they have here, I just haven't been motivated enough to figure it out).