Large Cheese Trier

Large Cheese Trier

I just tried this cheese trier for the first time yesterday, on an 8 week old 7 pound wheel of Gouda I had made that I had sealed in beeswax. I boiled the tool in water first to sterilize, then removed it from the water, and dried it. Using an oven glove, I then picked up the hot tool and slowly plunged it through the wax, and into the cheese, turning it 180 degrees to complete the circular cut, and then pulled it out slowly. It worked very very well, the wax and cheese plug came out in one piece, and the sampling was a success. The cheese was ready to cut, package, and eat; it was my first truly successful cheese made with homemade mesophilic cultures, raw milk, and homemade rennet. Excited to do it all again!