Thanks for the useful info. Making ghee will be my next project, before butter gets any higher. I love butter so much, I like to eat butter on my butter.!
Morning AP, hope you’re feeling better. Ghee that cheese looks yummy! Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas on long storage foods. We need good fat foods!🌸🌞🌺🙏
Hi AP! Awhile ago u made some rice and beans and to my surprise ur technique for rice cooking was different from mine, see I'm Puertorican and our staple food are rice and beans and I already knew how to cook these staples ... but I haven't been happy with my rice cooking as a good amount sticks to the bottom of the pan and I dislike "pegao" it messes with my teeth! So I try ur technique a couple of days ago (I made my own jambalaya!) and what a wonderful surprise when I spooned it out and served it! Soooo moist, (did I say I dislike loose, dry rice?) and so wonderfully savory (I made my own sofrito!) never before had it been so great, specially days after made, better as u reheat it!!! Thank you so much for sharing ur techniques and cooking, we can always learn new things!!!! Salud! Keep cooking, keep showing us different ways of doing the "same"! 👍😁💜 I'm going to the store tomorrow and get me some Ghee, powder eggs and milk! Remind people that all those dry food items we buy need several ingredients added when cooking and people forget to buy the add ons!!! 😭
I am a "new-be" to your channel and I have to tell you I am just sooooooooooooo excited about this video!! I am a huge cheese lover and I have been looking at cheese powders and freeze dried cheeses thinking " it will never be as good" and the prices!! Thank-you so so much for this!!
Wow great video. I intend to go back and look up both videos on the cheese and Ghee. I saw them before, but this time I will write the instructions down so I can try them both. Thank you so very much for doing these videos and God Bless
Hubby watched you live last night and now he believes we need to prep and promised he would not give me grief for continuing my preps. I’m going to rewatch the ghee video and give it a try. Cheese looks yummy.
Hi Angie way to go girl i learned the hard way with my first lot of ghee i had stood in front of the pot for nearly half a hour and then went to the loo and when i got back it had gone from a golden colour to a brown i new straight away that i had ruined it the next two goes were fine what i found Angie was melt your butter and bring it up to a slow or simmer boil do not let it boil hard after a few minutes you will notice a foam forming on the surface you can skim this foam of but do not stir the liquid below after you have most of the foam skimmed you will notice the liquid will start to clear still on a very slow boil when you look into the pot you will see the mjlk fats on the bottom starting to turn brown then my dear your ghee is ready take the pot of the stove and with a funnel and a filter you can pour it into your jars just make sure your jars are hot or they may break i leave my jars in the oven at a 100C while i'm making the ghee i hope this helps cheers .
So great! I just saw your cheese preservation instructions the other day. I ordered my wax and supplies. I have my cheese drying now, to wax when dried out, vinegar bathed and frozen!! Cant wait!! Thank you for the info! I just learned ghee about a month ago and water washing fresh farm eggs! Been canning and dehydrating, even milk!!😎
did you turn the cheese during the months? For waxed cheese, not only store it on the blocks for air circulation but you also turn it to keep the oils distributed so it will stay more moist and less crumbly, and won't leak where the oil pooled (and with the cheddar, won't get that discoloration/lightness on the top where the oil settled to the bottom).
@@AlaskaPrepper ~smiles~ just FYI then, the old books (18th/19th c) say cheese should be turned once a week as part of a housekeeper's regular duties...
AP, thanks for sharing, this was a great experiment, I like sharp cheese. I remember as a kid in the 60's when we bought cheese at the deli it had cheesecloth and wax on the outside . God bless !
Aged or waxed cheese gets sharper. To keep the oil from leaking out, cheese should be flipped at least once a week. Nice thing with sharp cheese is you can use less and have good flavor. Lard stores just as well as ghee too.
I recently opened a canned butter that was 7 years old. along with bacon, both were still good and tasted good. the bacon had lost its structure and came out as bacon bits when i cooked it. but it was great to use with eggs scrambled in it. the butter was fine, did have grainy texture, but I canned salted butter. learned later that salted is not the best to can😂, but it was still good
Cool! My cheddar is never sharp enough even if I buy extra sharp. If I can make it sharper that will be great. I want it super sharp if I put it on pasta or salad.
So glad I found your channel! I learn so much, I have to admit I thought what the heck is Ghee? Who knew, apparently a lot of people LOL thank you so much!!
Do you preserve coconut oil in jars, too, or just leave it in the original container? For the cheese, if it has to stay out of plastic and the freezer, how do you keep bugs and such away from it longterm?
Well with 14" of snow so far i just put on a big pot of beef stew with lentils n split peas n black beans. Gonna make a batch of scratch cornbread to go with it. Like you and others, i prefer dried ingredients to freeze dried "meals" to make my own meals.
Thank you so much! I watched your how to video on how to wax the cheese, and now also this 6 mo taste test. You've given me the courage to try this. You're a pleasure to watch. Thanks again!
Thanks. I know that I am a little late here. I recently came upon a source that is giving away bricks of cheese. I put some in the freezer but I was researching ways to make it shelf stable then I came across your video.
This is too cool. I had no idea a person could do this at home. Thanks so much!! Of course, my humor side kept saying “wax on, wax off”....(karate kid-yeah, I’m dating my self, lol. ) Melody from NC.
Also, where you talk about the cheddar developing more sharpness, for cooking purposes that is actually better. I usually mix mild and sharp if I can afford to when making Mac and cheese, omelets, or sausage balls or other dishes that need a creaminess from the milder but some sharpness so the flavor comes through.
Excellent test information. Been waiting for this. Can hardly wait for the 1 year mark for the cheese. Thanks for your videos. I thought ghee had to be used rather quickly or refrigerated after opening or it would go bad. Make sure you clean the wax very well before adding it to your other (clean) wax.
I love your channel AP. Oh My, I was wondering how the cheese lasted. I so am going to buy the wax and do this. Thank you for showing us the after waxing results. be interesting to see how much longer it will last.
Hey AP, glad to see the 6-month results on the cheese. You mentioned in your live stream that augason Farms was one of the companies you like for getting some of your items from. Amazon had a sale on the freeze-dried strawberries we're really good price so I got myself three cans. Have not tried yet but know that freeze dried is very good. Have tried from other companies. God bless you and yours
Hello Patricia, I have not tried any other companies strawberries, I think sometime this week I will do a review of the A.F. Strawberries and Whip Cream Mix so you can see what they are like. God bless...
For those who don't realize, the pepper jack tastes better after 6 months because it's been aged. That means the flavors have continued to develop inside the wax. (That's how some cheeses are aged. Others can be aged within salt, or preserved in clean woodfire ashes, etc.)
Very hopeful about the waxed cheese and the ghee. I made both after your videos. So as long as I check them over occasionally and watch your updates, I will just let them be. Thank you for the update. I do like sharp cheddar, so that is good. I strained my seconded batch of ghee with cheese cloth. Don't know if it helped any, but the canned little jars look so pretty, I give them away as gifts.
Check out some cheese crisp recipes on RUclips. It is just cheese baked or fried till it is crisp. They are delicious. If you ever try making them it would be a fun experiment to dry can some with a moisture absorber to see if they stay crisp after several months. They are my favorite low carb snack. I think your waxed cheddar would make a fantastic mac n cheese.
Great Vidio I will go back.. I like hard crumbly sharp cheeses are you keeping it cooler or in a fridge? Obviously, you don't want it stored hot conditions. Thanks, Brother
@@AlaskaPrepper Thanks I do ghee canning anon this Irish hard white cheddar very sharp and hard I would love to toughen it up a bit and set some back. NEVER thought of waxing myself.cool. I will look into ti tonight Interesting how long things will last at say 50 to 60 degrees in my (dry) basement. Thanks Blessg Bro.
Those sound like great temperatures, just have to make sure you have good air circulation and turn the cheese blocks every week or so. I failed to turn them and I think it's why a bit of oil was coming out of one side. Best of luck...
@@AlaskaPrepper ok great if I when it going I will let you know how it turns out. Of course, I will take a little time.. REAL like your channel I just discovered it a month ago I am trying to spread the word about it..Blessing Bro..Mike
Funny you opened your jar of ghee, just before this video I watched the one where you made it. Trying to catch up on what I missed these last few months. I would like to try canning but I know absolutely nothing about it. Could you do a short video covering the basics of canning if you haven't done so already? Or refer me to other videos and/or books. Thank you and God bless
Hello Michael, if you type in the word canning in my video feed all of my canning videos should show up. However, if you go to this channel, ruclips.net/channel/UC_PgChfO-fgSIpIYWD3Ka-g (Living Traditions Homestead), Sarah just put up a video about the basics of canning like three or four days ago. Really good folks on that channel....
@@AlaskaPrepper Thanks AP. Really appreciate the feed back. You are the BEST! Hope all is going well for you, keep us informed, always praying. God bless.
I have been wanting to try this so bad AP! I think this would be great to have. If grid is down, some cheese, wine and crackers life would still feel good! Best, Ed from Pennsylvannia
Hello Prepper Daze, my understanding is that vacuum sealing it will not allow it to breath well enough to properly preserve it. Sounds like a good experiment to try though. God bless..
Great video AP, I just pressure canned 21 half pints the other day, gonna try the cheese waxing for sure, have you canned cheese yet? That’s another prep I need to do. Thanks brother, God bless
I have not canned cheese, I think I will stick to waxing and getting canned cheese since both are good and last a good long while. I have dehydrated cheese in the past and maybe I will take out one of those bags to show it off cause I dehydrated them about 3-4 years ago so very curious as to how it's turned out after all this time. Good to see you buddy and God bless...
Thank you so much for asking Sandra, I will be getting the results of my CT Scan soon. I am hopeful that all I have is a bad infection that can get cleared up with some antibiotics. God bless...
Oh brother, I missed the waxing of the cheese video. How did you store it for the 6 months? I’ll go back and try to find the original video. I sincerely appreciate all of your experimentation. Thank you🦋💜
My mentor tells me that this method will preserve cheese for 28 plus years and has also told me that recently opened one that 15 years old and it was very good if you like "very sharp" cheese...
Cheese is naturally white like milk color is added for the yellow. You have aged the cheese and it will get sharper. I love sharp cheese. I need to find a place to age cheese and make my own.
Thanks Rudy! Haven't done the cheese yet but going too; exciting to see it worked out. I need to make up more ghee too. I always get something of value from your videos so hit the like button before I watch it. On another topic I learned if you add eggshells to any broth you make it gives added calcium, which makes sense. You just freeze eggshells until you make broth. Also good for compost but everyone knows that. Blessings!😊👵🌲💖🐕
Yay! Glad to see the cheese update. I'm waiting to get a little more cheese before I try it. Now, if I can afford the butter to make the ghee, that is my next goal. Well, getting over my fear of the old canner I bought is actually my next goal lol. Have a wonderful day AP. God bless you and yours.
@@AlaskaPrepper thank you! I actually got the canner because I want to can my own different types of meat. I'm a VIP, so I will be watching. Thank you for all you do!
Im gonna hav to try cheese waxing. Looks like it works!! Yap away. We lov it. Krogers here reguarly here puts it i think 16oz size for .99. Gonna stock up. Better than pickin up freezer burns n freezer flavors. Yay!! Maybe cooked in dishes the chedder flavor might not taste as strong????
You know what, never thought about that but honestly there was no dust on them at all. Kind of weird to think about that but I did not clean them or anything before presenting them to you guys and there was no dust. I do have a medical grade air filter in my home but it is not placed near my pantry.
Joy, that is a great question, maybe i'll do an experiment and purchase some of those to be left out of the fridge for a year or so as I break into one every month. God bless...
AP, so many people on here are impressed with the cheese. Maybe you need to speak to temperature for saving the cheese in wax. No fridge. etc. Not all of these people live in AK. Just a thought.
Thank you for your humble videos! It allows for an open door for folks like me to ask silly questions! .... I have not yet ventured into making my own cheese yet however, it has been added to my "BUCKET LIST"! I currently purchase imported Mandarini (its a hanging pear shaped with rope and fully waxed) provolone cheese from our little local Italian market. I typically have them cut me a 6lbs chunk and take home and get through it in a reasonable time for freshness. My goal/desire is to purchase the whole waxed/sealed hanging ball from them (approx. 30lbs)! My million dollar question is: Is it possible to purchase the whole 30lbs break the wax seal, cut it into manageable 1lb chunks and re-wax those size pieces and safely store them in my pantry? If I can't/shouldn't, I will accept that. However, if it is a viable option......what and how would be the best approach for highest success? Thank you in advance!😇🇺🇸
I did not even vacuum seal the jar I have stored in my cabinet and it has turned out really good. If you want to try just process one pound of butter, enough to make one pint of ghee, and put up for a month or two in order to get your confidence up before you commit to making a full batch. God bless....
So I wonder how well it would work if you did up some bricks, let it sit for a year, and them make a recipe you would normally use fresh cheese for. Such as mac n cheese.
Blessings AP! I've been waiting for this video and now I see I missed it when you did it. Shame on me! I'm just about to get ready to do my cheese waxing and I'm going to first go back and re-watch the video when you did the actual waxing. I was just wondering if it would be a good idea to freeze the blocks of cheese before waxing to get the wax to adhere well? Anyway, have a blessed evening! And Gods blessings to all!
sheila sullivan I canned butter, and just opened some 8 years later and it was still good, same with bacon. so can guys, it will keep and not make you sick, just my personal results
Ok I'm convinced! Will be adding Pepper jack to the list of cheeses I already wax. Now, did I miss a show or have you not made cheese yet? I mean the simple kind from (dry) milk.
I just wash the wax under cold water with soap and water and allow to dry prior to putting away, just be gentle when cleaning it; the wax I cleaned from the other blocks i've cut have turned out very well...
No but what i'm going to do is purchase a pack of baby bell's and keep on the shelf along with the waxed cheese I have and then open one up every month for a year and see what happens; should be interesting.
@@AlaskaPrepper That's a great plan! I can't wait to see the results. When it comes to putting dates on "some" food products, I wonder if it's a ploy by the manufacturer to entice customers to throw out what they have and buy more. Decades ago, L'Eggs pantyhose were virtually indestructible. TV commercials showed them running a metal fingernail file along the inside of the hose in order to demonstrate how hard it was to make them "run". This resulted in women buying only two pair (one for work and one for church). Then the manufacturer goes, "What the heck? We've shot ourselves in the foot by making our pantyhose so durable because women stopped buying new ones." Their solution was to tweak the material until the hose would run even if you barely touched them. Even a rough fingernail or cuticle would cause a hole and then a run. Clear fingernail polish helped slow its eventual advance up the leg, but women were compelled to buy a new pair almost every week. I wasn't surprised when the metal-file-versus-L'Eggs commercials stopped airing. In comparison, perhaps the short expiration date on the waxed cheese is Baby Bell's way of causing "a run" to the grocery store to buy more. On the other hand, if the cheese does go bad as soon as they say, I foresee "a run" to the bathroom in my/our future.
LOL, I will do the test for you guys so you don't have to run to the bathroom, lol. I agree about the dates and the cheap fashion in which our products are made today. I think they are made in order to purposely fail so that it has to be replaced. I remember when a washing machine would last 30 years and now the average life span is about 6-7 years. Criminal really...
Good to see you Brother, yes the wax is in my Amazon Storefront, I think the one I have there is orange but they come in various colors. I tried doing this with paraffin wax about 6 years ago and it was a disaster, lol...
I'd love to walk you through cold smoking cheese if you ever want to try that, then wax it. I'm putting some smoked Swiss on my pizza now. We smoke all types of cheese
@@hootowlholler3760 well we buy local from the store here, just regular sized blocks of cheese. We open them, put them on diamond shaped silicone screens for a nifty smoke pattern. Then we roll it in our big smoker and pipe in smoke. With big cats of ice on the bottom of the cart holding the cheese. Keeps it in the 40 degree range. We roll it back in the cooler, cool it back to the 30s range. And resmoke it twice. Then we vac pack it and freeze it for show case sale. Horseradish cheddar with Merlot is a great snack. Or garlic jack mmmmmmm
@@hootowlholler3760 actually pay in the meat industry sucks. Meats the highest price of every meal. Plus trying to beat Walmart in prices. I actually do make meat part if the pay. Any and all product at my cost. Plus if you raise your own beef or hogs, use the shop on the house. Helps em on money....so yeah I kinda do pay in meats🤫
Sounds like it would be a good idea to seal mild cheeses since they age or sharpen in the wax.
What a friend we have in Cheeses.
Yup gotta love cheese. LOL
Praise cheeses!
@@tarabooartarmy3654 Amen !
@@NoNORADon911 Daniel-son died last week.
LOVE cheese! We eat it every day!!
Why didn't the cheese want to get sliced?
It had grater plans. 😂
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I almost shredded your cheesy joke, but it's whey too funny. In fact, I think it's rather sharp. :-)
@@grinning_owl😂 GOOD ONE!
Thanks for the useful info. Making ghee will be my next project, before butter gets any higher. I love butter so much, I like to eat butter on my butter.!
Morning AP, hope you’re feeling better. Ghee that cheese looks yummy! Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas on long storage foods. We need good fat foods!🌸🌞🌺🙏
Hi AP! Awhile ago u made some rice and beans and to my surprise ur technique for rice cooking was different from mine, see I'm Puertorican and our staple food are rice and beans and I already knew how to cook these staples ... but I haven't been happy with my rice cooking as a good amount sticks to the bottom of the pan and I dislike "pegao" it messes with my teeth! So I try ur technique a couple of days ago (I made my own jambalaya!) and what a wonderful surprise when I spooned it out and served it! Soooo moist, (did I say I dislike loose, dry rice?) and so wonderfully savory (I made my own sofrito!) never before had it been so great, specially days after made, better as u reheat it!!! Thank you so much for sharing ur techniques and cooking, we can always learn new things!!!! Salud! Keep cooking, keep showing us different ways of doing the "same"! 👍😁💜 I'm going to the store tomorrow and get me some Ghee, powder eggs and milk! Remind people that all those dry food items we buy need several ingredients added when cooking and people forget to buy the add ons!!! 😭
I am a "new-be" to your channel and I have to tell you I am just sooooooooooooo excited about this video!! I am a huge cheese lover and I have been looking at cheese powders and freeze dried cheeses thinking " it will never be as good" and the prices!! Thank-you so so much for this!!
Wow great video. I intend to go back and look up both videos on the cheese and Ghee. I saw them before, but this time I will write the instructions down so I can try them both. Thank you so very much for doing these videos and God Bless
Hubby watched you live last night and now he believes we need to prep and promised he would not give me grief for continuing my preps.
I’m going to rewatch the ghee video and give it a try.
Cheese looks yummy.
Holly Molly, that is AWESOME!! That makes me feel really happy Angie so thank you for letting me know that. God bless....
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Hi Angie way to go girl i learned the hard way with my first lot of ghee i had stood in front of the pot for nearly half a hour and then went to the loo and when i got back it had gone from a golden colour to a brown i new straight away that i had ruined it the next two goes were fine what i found Angie was melt your butter and bring it up to a slow or simmer boil do not let it boil hard after a few minutes you will notice a foam forming on the surface you can skim this foam of but do not stir the liquid below after you have most of the foam skimmed you will notice the liquid will start to clear still on a very slow boil when you look into the pot you will see the mjlk fats on the bottom starting to turn brown then my dear your ghee is ready take the pot of the stove and with a funnel and a filter you can pour it into your jars just make sure your jars are hot or they may break i leave my jars in the oven at a 100C while i'm making the ghee i hope this helps cheers .
Your my favorite prepper channel, voice to calm and relaxing. So informative thabk you so much for all your teachings
So great! I just saw your cheese preservation instructions the other day. I ordered my wax and supplies. I have my cheese drying now, to wax when dried out, vinegar bathed and frozen!! Cant wait!! Thank you for the info! I just learned ghee about a month ago and water washing fresh farm eggs! Been canning and dehydrating, even milk!!😎
Another successful prepping idea as usual form you! I’m excited to try the cheese waxing. Thanks for sharing all of your ideas and knowledge! 💙💛🙏
WV Prepared Mind I can’t wait to try waxing some cheese.
did you turn the cheese during the months? For waxed cheese, not only store it on the blocks for air circulation but you also turn it to keep the oils distributed so it will stay more moist and less crumbly, and won't leak where the oil pooled (and with the cheddar, won't get that discoloration/lightness on the top where the oil settled to the bottom).
Hello Mickie, I did turn it but probably not as often as I should have.
@@AlaskaPrepper ~smiles~ just FYI then, the old books (18th/19th c) say cheese should be turned once a week as part of a housekeeper's regular duties...
but I appreciate the experiment. I'm gonna try it putting what has been hereto only theory.
Alaska Prepper you make a pretty good housewife in other ways Rudy. Don't take it so hard. I have to check my notes to get it all done too. Lol
@@edieboudreau9637 oh he totally is top grade, Edie... just passing along info in case he "didn't" know how often was considered often enough.
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So awesome to see the cheese is preserving well. I think I may try it. Thank you for the encouragement.
I love Pepper Jack!! Colby might be less sharp since it's mild to start. Thanks for doing this experiment.
J T hi JT I am so excited to cut into my cheese lol I have two more months to go
I really hope it works 🤞
Hi Mayra. 😀 What kind did you do? Aren't we funny, excited about old cheese. 😁😁😁
@@JT-2012 🤣🤣🤣
J. T. Mayra said she is going to cut the cheese, lol....
Alaska Prepper lol yup I am going to cut the cheese 🤣
We have a local cheese house that sells 20 year old cheddar at $30.00 a pound ..very sharp and tasty. Cant wait to start doing this again.
the longer you age any cheese, the sharper the flavor.....yum
I’m doing it! 🥳 I finally found some wax locally, I’m so glad I happen to find this video when I did!
AP, thanks for sharing, this was a great experiment, I like sharp cheese. I remember as a kid in the 60's when we bought cheese at the deli it had cheesecloth and wax on the outside . God bless !
Interestingly I was thinking of purchasing some cheaper store-bought cheese and aging in wax at home. Great vid.
Aged or waxed cheese gets sharper. To keep the oil from leaking out, cheese should be flipped at least once a week. Nice thing with sharp cheese is you can use less and have good flavor. Lard stores just as well as ghee too.
I am grateful I learned from you how to make ghee. I love it.
I recently opened a canned butter that was 7 years old. along with bacon, both were still good and tasted good. the bacon had lost its structure and came out as bacon bits when i cooked it. but it was great to use with eggs scrambled in it. the butter was fine, did have grainy texture, but I canned salted butter. learned later that salted is not the best to can😂, but it was still good
Maybe it was grainy because the salt crystallized? Thats just my guess
Cool! My cheddar is never sharp enough even if I buy extra sharp. If I can make it sharper that will be great. I want it super sharp if I put it on pasta or salad.
Alaska Prepper, kudos to you for a successful cheese reveal. I so appreciate the fact that you show safe and effective ways for us to prep. Thank you.
You know you make me hungry right? Thurs. is canning day. I hope you are feeling better. Thank you for another great video. Much love from Ma 2.
So glad I found your channel! I learn so much, I have to admit I thought what the heck is Ghee? Who knew, apparently a lot of people LOL thank you so much!!
Wow! Thanks for teaching us this method of preserving!
Do you preserve coconut oil in jars, too, or just leave it in the original container? For the cheese, if it has to stay out of plastic and the freezer, how do you keep bugs and such away from it longterm?
Well with 14" of snow so far i just put on a big pot of beef stew with lentils n split peas n black beans. Gonna make a batch of scratch cornbread to go with it. Like you and others, i prefer dried ingredients to freeze dried "meals" to make my own meals.
Colo Prepper hope you can stay warm & safe out there.☃️
@@hootowlholler3760 thanks im tryin to😸
Thank you so much! I watched your how to video on how to wax the cheese, and now also this 6 mo taste test. You've given me the courage to try this. You're a pleasure to watch. Thanks again!
Thanks. I know that I am a little late here. I recently came upon a source that is giving away bricks of cheese. I put some in the freezer but I was researching ways to make it shelf stable then I came across your video.
This is too cool. I had no idea a person could do this at home. Thanks so much!! Of course, my humor side kept saying “wax on, wax off”....(karate kid-yeah, I’m dating my self, lol. ) Melody from NC.
Also, where you talk about the cheddar developing more sharpness, for cooking purposes that is actually better. I usually mix mild and sharp if I can afford to when making Mac and cheese, omelets, or sausage balls or other dishes that need a creaminess from the milder but some sharpness so the flavor comes through.
Excellent test information. Been waiting for this. Can hardly wait for the 1 year mark for the cheese. Thanks for your videos. I thought ghee had to be used rather quickly or refrigerated after opening or it would go bad. Make sure you clean the wax very well before adding it to your other (clean) wax.
Hello Caribe, if properly processed and stored, imho, this ghee will still be good well after I am no more. God bless....
I love your channel AP. Oh My, I
was wondering how the cheese lasted. I so am going to buy the wax and do this. Thank you for showing us the after waxing results. be interesting to see how much longer it will last.
back woods FL Granny I was so excited to see how this turned out.
Hey AP, glad to see the 6-month results on the cheese. You mentioned in your live stream that augason Farms was one of the companies you like for getting some of your items from. Amazon had a sale on the freeze-dried strawberries we're really good price so I got myself three cans. Have not tried yet but know that freeze dried is very good. Have tried from other companies. God bless you and yours
Hello Patricia, I have not tried any other companies strawberries, I think sometime this week I will do a review of the A.F. Strawberries and Whip Cream Mix so you can see what they are like. God bless...
Rain Country makes home made vinegars & extracts using freeze dried fruits.
For those who don't realize, the pepper jack tastes better after 6 months because it's been aged. That means the flavors have continued to develop inside the wax. (That's how some cheeses are aged. Others can be aged within salt, or preserved in clean woodfire ashes, etc.)
He just said a shorter video, we've heard that before.
LOL, it is shorter than the original but not as short as I wanted it to be, LOL.... You got me Jeff...
Jeff Riffel lol
Lmao 😂🤣
I didn't know you could wash and reuse cheese wax.👍🏻
Very hopeful about the waxed cheese and the ghee. I made both after your videos. So as long as I check them over occasionally and watch your updates, I will just let them be. Thank you for the update. I do like sharp cheddar, so that is good. I strained my seconded batch of ghee with cheese cloth. Don't know if it helped any, but the canned little jars look so pretty, I give them away as gifts.
Check out some cheese crisp recipes on RUclips. It is just cheese baked or fried till it is crisp. They are delicious. If you ever try making them it would be a fun experiment to dry can some with a moisture absorber to see if they stay crisp after several months. They are my favorite low carb snack. I think your waxed cheddar would make a fantastic mac n cheese.
Patricia Ribaric they are good & bonus....naturally gluten free. I haven't been able to keep mine from staling.
I'd be interested to see how Swiss or harder cheeses fare with the wax method. I'm also interested on how it melts. Thank you. Have a great day.
Oh wow!!! I need to start waxing cheese!!! It’s not getting any cheaper, that’s for sure!! Thanks AP!!!❤️❤️
Hope Britton next time cheese chunks go on sale I’ll be stocking up to give this a try.
Angie, I sure will too!! This is great!!!
I LOVE sharp cheddar! My mouth watered watching you sample it! LOL. I wonder what would happen to aged sharp cheddar! ☺️
Great Vidio I will go back.. I like hard crumbly sharp cheeses are you keeping it cooler or in a fridge?
Obviously, you don't want it stored hot conditions. Thanks, Brother
I keep it in my pantry where the temperature ranges from 60-68 degrees F all year. God bless...
@@AlaskaPrepper Thanks I do ghee canning anon this Irish hard white cheddar very sharp and hard I would love to toughen it up a bit and set some back. NEVER thought of waxing myself.cool. I will look into ti tonight Interesting how long things will last at say 50 to 60 degrees in my (dry) basement. Thanks Blessg Bro.
Those sound like great temperatures, just have to make sure you have good air circulation and turn the cheese blocks every week or so. I failed to turn them and I think it's why a bit of oil was coming out of one side. Best of luck...
@@AlaskaPrepper ok great if I when it going I will let you know how it turns out. Of course, I will take a little time.. REAL like your channel I just discovered it a month ago I am trying to spread the word about it..Blessing Bro..Mike
Thanks so much for doing this AP! Great inspiration.
Funny you opened your jar of ghee, just before this video I watched the one where you made it. Trying to catch up on what I missed these last few months.
I would like to try canning but I know absolutely nothing about it. Could you do a short video covering the basics of canning if you haven't done so already? Or refer me to other videos and/or books. Thank you and God bless
Hello Michael, if you type in the word canning in my video feed all of my canning videos should show up. However, if you go to this channel, ruclips.net/channel/UC_PgChfO-fgSIpIYWD3Ka-g (Living Traditions Homestead), Sarah just put up a video about the basics of canning like three or four days ago. Really good folks on that channel....
@@AlaskaPrepper Thanks AP. Really appreciate the feed back. You are the BEST! Hope all is going well for you, keep us informed, always praying. God bless.
I’m so happy to have come a cross your channel. I absolutely love your videos
Wow! 😃❤️ looks just as when you waxed it!
Ok now I'm craving a cheese plater!!!🧀🍇🥐🔪yummy 😛
Excited to see how this turns out!!!
I have been wanting to try this so bad AP! I think this would be great to have. If grid is down, some cheese, wine and crackers life would still feel good!
Best,
Ed from Pennsylvannia
Is there an advantage of waxing vs vacuum sealing the cheese ?
Hello Prepper Daze, my understanding is that vacuum sealing it will not allow it to breath well enough to properly preserve it. Sounds like a good experiment to try though. God bless..
How cool! Again, thanks for sharing & teaching!
Great video AP, I just pressure canned 21 half pints the other day, gonna try the cheese waxing for sure, have you canned cheese yet? That’s another prep I need to do. Thanks brother, God bless
I have not canned cheese, I think I will stick to waxing and getting canned cheese since both are good and last a good long while. I have dehydrated cheese in the past and maybe I will take out one of those bags to show it off cause I dehydrated them about 3-4 years ago so very curious as to how it's turned out after all this time. Good to see you buddy and God bless...
Looks amazing I have two more months to wait to cut into mine but when I look at it it looks good
The way you said pepper jack cheese 😂. Could tell it was your favorite.
Ghee..... perfect oil to pop popcorn with 😋😋😋
Off topic: How are you? I caught a bit on a cat scan and hope it came out well. Will keep praying for you all.
Thank you so much for asking Sandra, I will be getting the results of my CT Scan soon. I am hopeful that all I have is a bad infection that can get cleared up with some antibiotics. God bless...
I will keep you in prayer till we know.
Oh brother, I missed the waxing of the cheese video. How did you store it for the 6 months? I’ll go back and try to find the original video. I sincerely appreciate all of your experimentation. Thank you🦋💜
Hello Tammy, I placed a card for that video on the upper R hand corner of this video so that it's easy for you to find.
How long of a shelf life do you think the cheese will have total! I am interested in doing this! Thank you!
My mentor tells me that this method will preserve cheese for 28 plus years and has also told me that recently opened one that 15 years old and it was very good if you like "very sharp" cheese...
Cheese is naturally white like milk color is added for the yellow. You have aged the cheese and it will get sharper. I love sharp cheese. I need to find a place to age cheese and make my own.
Lynda Buchholz yes. Mustard powder or turmeric alter the color.
Thanks Rudy! Haven't done the cheese yet but going too; exciting to see it worked out. I need to make up more ghee too. I always get something of value from your videos so hit the like button before I watch it. On another topic I learned if you add eggshells to any broth you make it gives added calcium, which makes sense. You just freeze eggshells until you make broth. Also good for compost but everyone knows that. Blessings!😊👵🌲💖🐕
Melody Tenisch if you powder the egg shells you can swallow with water for calcium.
Yay! Glad to see the cheese update. I'm waiting to get a little more cheese before I try it. Now, if I can afford the butter to make the ghee, that is my next goal. Well, getting over my fear of the old canner I bought is actually my next goal lol. Have a wonderful day AP. God bless you and yours.
I'll be posting a beef caning video within the next day or two; hopefully it will help you be encouraged to give it a try. God bless...
@@AlaskaPrepper thank you! I actually got the canner because I want to can my own different types of meat. I'm a VIP, so I will be watching. Thank you for all you do!
Im gonna hav to try cheese waxing. Looks like it works!! Yap away. We lov it. Krogers here reguarly here puts it i think 16oz size for .99. Gonna stock up. Better than pickin up freezer burns n freezer flavors. Yay!! Maybe cooked in dishes the chedder flavor might not taste as strong????
Can't wait to see what the Colby jack does......excellent information!!
I'm wondering how the Colby jack turned out? I love pepper jack and Colby jack.
I'm curious, how did you keep the dust off them? I always watch to then end. Thanks for sharing
You know what, never thought about that but honestly there was no dust on them at all. Kind of weird to think about that but I did not clean them or anything before presenting them to you guys and there was no dust. I do have a medical grade air filter in my home but it is not placed near my pantry.
Hi AP what about cheeses like baby bell's already in wax.. the experation in short term... ?
Joy, that is a great question, maybe i'll do an experiment and purchase some of those to be left out of the fridge for a year or so as I break into one every month. God bless...
Not sure if we could reuse that wax from the bells.
@@AlaskaPrepper Awesome AP!!!
I'm wondering the same thing. Read my other post about it.
Really wet cheese.
AP, so many people on here are impressed with the cheese. Maybe you need to speak to temperature for saving the cheese in wax. No fridge. etc. Not all of these people live in AK. Just a thought.
Thank you for your humble videos! It allows for an open door for folks like me to ask silly questions! .... I have not yet ventured into making my own cheese yet however, it has been added to my "BUCKET LIST"! I currently purchase imported Mandarini (its a hanging pear shaped with rope and fully waxed) provolone cheese from our little local Italian market. I typically have them cut me a 6lbs chunk and take home and get through it in a reasonable time for freshness. My goal/desire is to purchase the whole waxed/sealed hanging ball from them (approx. 30lbs)! My million dollar question is: Is it possible to purchase the whole 30lbs break the wax seal, cut it into manageable 1lb chunks and re-wax those size pieces and safely store them in my pantry? If I can't/shouldn't, I will accept that. However, if it is a viable option......what and how would be the best approach for highest success? Thank you in advance!😇🇺🇸
I cannot wait to try this :-)
So if I wanted to make some gee I don't have to pressure can it? I could just put it in a jar, vacuum seal it and it's done?
I did not even vacuum seal the jar I have stored in my cabinet and it has turned out really good. If you want to try just process one pound of butter, enough to make one pint of ghee, and put up for a month or two in order to get your confidence up before you commit to making a full batch. God bless....
@@AlaskaPrepper ok I'll do that. I'll try doing one pint first that should help calm my nerves. 😊
So I wonder how well it would work if you did up some bricks, let it sit for a year, and them make a recipe you would normally use fresh cheese for. Such as mac n cheese.
Awesome info & video! :) tyfs!
I bought the wax and was waiting for this video :)) before I got started.
Definitely going to make ghee for my preps next!
Blessings AP! I've been waiting for this video and now I see I missed it when you did it. Shame on me! I'm just about to get ready to do my cheese waxing and I'm going to first go back and re-watch the video when you did the actual waxing. I was just wondering if it would be a good idea to freeze the blocks of cheese before waxing to get the wax to adhere well? Anyway, have a blessed evening! And Gods blessings to all!
i canned butter months ago it is great and i love it i will never be out of butter or grlee
sheila sullivan I canned butter, and just opened some 8 years later and it was still good, same with bacon. so can guys, it will keep and not make you sick, just my personal results
@@backwoodsflgranny3996 Wow, I've heard of canning butter and I want to try that, but I've never heard of canning bacon! Definitely will do THAT!
@@JipseeGirl check "Prepped Potpourri" for the best method of canning bacon. Imho. Check. You will like it.
Freakin awesome. Just got my cheese waxes now im gonna look into ghee
Aloha AP! Mahalo for making this video 👍🏻👍🏻 Q: Are there certain cheeses that we SHOULDN'T wax?? God bless!
I've been told not to wax Mozzarella because it is too moist.
@@AlaskaPrepper Mahalo AP! 👍🏻
Hina kaulana farmer's cheese. Cottage cheese. Other very moist cheeses.
@@edieboudreau9637 Ok got it👍🏻 Mahalo :)
Thanks AP. I was just waiting for you to do this 6 month review to give it a try
Great video! AP, how do you clean the wax for reuse?
Ok I'm convinced! Will be adding Pepper jack to the list of cheeses I already wax. Now, did I miss a show or have you not made cheese yet? I mean the simple kind from (dry) milk.
The only cheese that I've made is Cream Cheese and it was from whole milk and not dry milk. Came out very tasty by the way....
@@AlaskaPrepper so glad your adventurous spirit opens the doors to preparedness living to so many.
Yay! was waiting patiently for this! I can reuse the wax, that’s awesome. Thank you 🙏🏼
?. How do you clean the used wax from the oil and bits of cheese residue.
I just wash the wax under cold water with soap and water and allow to dry prior to putting away, just be gentle when cleaning it; the wax I cleaned from the other blocks i've cut have turned out very well...
Wow, how great is that! I love cheese, so I am going to try this. Hope you are feeling better. God bless.
AP, did you ever get a chance to ask your friend why Baby Bell cheese displays such a short exp date on the package?
No but what i'm going to do is purchase a pack of baby bell's and keep on the shelf along with the waxed cheese I have and then open one up every month for a year and see what happens; should be interesting.
@@AlaskaPrepper That's a great plan! I can't wait to see the results. When it comes to putting dates on "some" food products, I wonder if it's a ploy by the manufacturer to entice customers to throw out what they have and buy more. Decades ago, L'Eggs pantyhose were virtually indestructible. TV commercials showed them running a metal fingernail file along the inside of the hose in order to demonstrate how hard it was to make them "run". This resulted in women buying only two pair (one for work and one for church). Then the manufacturer goes, "What the heck? We've shot ourselves in the foot by making our pantyhose so durable because women stopped buying new ones." Their solution was to tweak the material until the hose would run even if you barely touched them. Even a rough fingernail or cuticle would cause a hole and then a run. Clear fingernail polish helped slow its eventual advance up the leg, but women were compelled to buy a new pair almost every week. I wasn't surprised when the metal-file-versus-L'Eggs commercials stopped airing. In comparison, perhaps the short expiration date on the waxed cheese is Baby Bell's way of causing "a run" to the grocery store to buy more. On the other hand, if the cheese does go bad as soon as they say, I foresee "a run" to the bathroom in my/our future.
LOL, I will do the test for you guys so you don't have to run to the bathroom, lol. I agree about the dates and the cheap fashion in which our products are made today. I think they are made in order to purposely fail so that it has to be replaced. I remember when a washing machine would last 30 years and now the average life span is about 6-7 years. Criminal really...
do you / can you re-use the wax? after a clean perhaps?
Thanks for sharing I can not wait to try this i hope to make glee soon
Where do you store them? Are they shelf stable?
This was so awsome AP 👍 I'm sold on the cheese. The wax you used in guessing is specialty wax. Do you have links for it ??
Good to see you Brother, yes the wax is in my Amazon Storefront, I think the one I have there is orange but they come in various colors. I tried doing this with paraffin wax about 6 years ago and it was a disaster, lol...
@@AlaskaPrepper thanks AP 👍
Anyone ever tried cheese wax or paraffin wax on beef jerky for longer shelf life?
I have never tried that, not really sure how that would work. Have you tried it??
@@AlaskaPrepper No I haven't. Just asking if anyone has. If it preserves cheese then why couldn't it preserve beef jerky.
@@AlaskaPrepper Why not try it. What about waxing beef tallow or lard?
Dude I am totally impressed. I have never seen this before. I will go back and see how you waxed the cheese. I will have to try that.
I'd love to walk you through cold smoking cheese if you ever want to try that, then wax it. I'm putting some smoked Swiss on my pizza now. We smoke all types of cheese
Brent, what temperature do you store the cheese?
@@hootowlholler3760 well we buy local from the store here, just regular sized blocks of cheese. We open them, put them on diamond shaped silicone screens for a nifty smoke pattern.
Then we roll it in our big smoker and pipe in smoke. With big cats of ice on the bottom of the cart holding the cheese. Keeps it in the 40 degree range.
We roll it back in the cooler, cool it back to the 30s range. And resmoke it twice. Then we vac pack it and freeze it for show case sale.
Horseradish cheddar with Merlot is a great snack. Or garlic jack mmmmmmm
@@brentwinfield9840 they both sound good. I bet you could pay your employees in meat & cheese.
@@hootowlholler3760 actually pay in the meat industry sucks. Meats the highest price of every meal. Plus trying to beat Walmart in prices. I actually do make meat part if the pay. Any and all product at my cost. Plus if you raise your own beef or hogs, use the shop on the house. Helps em on money....so yeah I kinda do pay in meats🤫
@@brentwinfield9840you are a good man. Very smart to be so young.
Did you do the year test ? I can't find it.
Can this work with blocks of cheese I bought on sale and put in freezer?
Could you wax mild cheddar so the taste may not be so strong??
That was mild cheddar when I initially waxed it..
Wow I am going to do both.. Love it
Not gonna lie, I thought that first one was gonna be fuzzy! You did a great job!
LOL, well it's been 24 hours since I ate that and still good to go, lol. God Bless and again, congratulations on winning the Coleman Oven.