How to Make Cheese and Age It Into Wheels

From Milk to Curds

Cheese starts as an Unripe wheel. You craft the unripe form first — the two families are Flaxen and Scarlet — and then you age it. The unripe wheel is not the final product; eating it early wastes the potential of the batch.

Aging Your Wheels

1. Craft an Unripe Flaxen Cheese Wheel or Unripe Scarlet Cheese Wheel.

2. Place it somewhere it can ripen. Cheese needs time and the right conditions; a cool, stable spot works better than a hot, exposed one.

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4. Once ripe, break the wheel to get wedges. Wedges are the portable, edible unit and are also the ingredient most recipes ask for.

Using Cheese

Cheese wedges feed directly into cooked dishes. Pasta with Cheese, Ham and Cheese Sandwich, Quiche, and Pizza all want cheese, so keep a stock of wedges rather than letting wheels sit unbroken. If you are running a kitchen for other players, ripe wheels store well and break down on demand, which makes them better bulk storage than pre-cut wedges.