"While it can take some serious practice to achieve the crisp folds of experienced cheesemongers, think of your cheese as a little present, (which it is, obviously,) and wrap it as though you were using festive wrapping paper. 'You want the paper making contact with the piece of cheese,' says Montez, 'so crease as you go, and make sure all of the faces of the cheese are contacting the paper in an even, flat way.' If this seems at all intimidating, Formaticum also makes handy, cheese storage bags where no origami-level folding is required."
"Mark Goldman, cheese enthusiast, founder and owner of Formaticum, is on a mission to educate retailers and the public about the importance of properly storing cheese, as a way to ensure the incredible amount of time, skill, and resources poured by cheesemakers into their product doesn’t go to waste. Goldman had been working in the cheese industry since 2004, but a trip to France the following year was what deepened his love affair with cheese, leading him to establish Formaticum in 2006. The company imports packaging from Europe that preserves cheese in the state the cheesemakers intended it to be consumed, as well as implements such as cheese knives and boards."
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Another paper product comes from France, the country that treasures cheese. Formaticum cheese storage bags ($8.99) are porous, thus lets cheese breathe and regulates humidity. Stop wrapping your cheese in plastic wrap immediately.