WAXING OF CHEESE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 105, 30 October 1931, Page 14

WAXING OF CHEESE

QUESTION NOT SETTLED

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.*) MASTERTON, This Day. According to a dairy factory director ■who was found viewing the cheese exhibits at the Wairarapa P. and A. Show yesterday, tho question, of waxed versus unwaxed cheese is very far from being settled, On a recent visit to London, he observed, he found that some grocers greatly preferred waxed cheese. The principal reason was that the wax came away readily and cleanly when the cheeso was being cut up, whereas a good deal of trouble was experienced in getting off cheese bandages. Commenting on the common complaint that waxing enclosed too much moisture nnd led to a rapid and undue loss of weight when the cheese was cut up, another authority observed that this only occurred when cheese was waxed too soon, beforo it had been adequately matured. lie had known cheese to be ■Waxed when it was only ten days old. This not only led to softening and other •troubles, but amounted to soiling water as cheeso. Tho waxing otf thoroughly .■matured cheeso was, however, in his ■opinion sound practico and would always give satisfactory results..