[upbeat folk music]
- Inga: Back in the creamery,
it's time to take the cheeses out of the molds.
[groovy country music]
Over the course of that last 24 hours,
the individual curds have knitted together
to become one individual block of cheese.
Once I take the cheese out of the molds,
it's time to do a second dressing of cheesecloth.
[groovy country music]
First, I trim any edges of the cheese,
making sure that it's nice and smooth and uniform.
Now I can snip off any extra bits of the original cheesecloth
and adhere that right to the cheese using butter.
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Then I take my second cheesecloth
and I just soak that in melted butter.
This is gonna be my glue so to speak,
in getting the cheesecloth to adhere to the wheel of cheese.
Once the cheesecloth is on the cheese
and everything's smoothed and perfect,
I have to label the cheese.
We label every wheel of cheese with the date it was made,
the pasture that the cows were grazing in,
and the cheesemakers.
And now it's time
to put the cheeses to bed in the aging room
for them to start developing the characteristics
of the cheddar that we're looking for.
[upbeat folk music]