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Freezing smoked cheese
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bettysnephew
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I recently smoked some cheese, which turned out great by the way. I had mentioned to the wife that we were going to keep it for a while and she froze it without telling me. When she later got a piece of the pepper jack from the freezer and defrosted it, the texture was grainy and it crumbled fairly easily. Has anyone else experienced a texture change in cheese after freezing? It was sealed in a Foodsaver bag BTW.
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I never froze it but I'm not surprised it is crumbly. I have kept smoked cheese for months in vac-packed bags with never a problem. You're just going to have to smoke some more!Cherry Hill, NJ
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We only freeze cheese that we intend to use in cooked dishes since it always gets crumbly when frozen. I wish there was a better way to preserve it.
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I wondered about this too after folks said they froze smoked cheese. Whenever I have frozen cheese in the past, the texture changed to that crumbly sort of texture, so I stopped freezing it. That wasn't vacuum packed though.#1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February 2013 • #3 Mini May 2013A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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Agree with others... freezing cheese does not work well.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Well, "spa-Peggy" is kind of like spaghetti. I'm not sure what Peggy does different, if anything. But it's the one dish she's kind of made her own.____________________Aurora, Ontario, Canada
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