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Originally Posted by backwoods357
Adam, what brand of cheese was that that you were smoking? What an excellent idea to keep the cheese becoming a puddle.
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Thanks Jorgen.
Looking at the shapes, it appears that the ones across the top were Tillamook medium cheddar. The ones at 4 & 8 o'clock were Safeway (one of the large supermarket chains out here) house brand medium cheddar and judging by the color, the one at 6 o'clock was also safeway, but it was sharp or x-sharp that was double smoking - It had already been smoked with a hickory based blend a few months earlier, vacuum sealed, then opened back up and smoked again with alder (double smoking didn't do anything special - I could have done it all in one shot with a mix of woods).
I actually thought the Safeway house brand gave a better end product than the Tillamook. Smoke didn't penetrate as well on the Tillamook.
I found that Costco/Kirkland sharp cheddar also works really well.
If you decide to set up something like that, shoot me a PM, I'll pass along some of that I've learned on it it, and save you some experimentation.