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- Wisconsin is home to some wonderful cheeses.
They come in all different shapes and sizes.
I wanna show you today
how to break down a truckle of cheese.
A truckle is just the shape.
It's a cylinder shape.
And today, I have a clothbound cheddar.
The first thing I do is I remove the cheesecloth.
The color on the cheesecloth
is that really beautiful different colors of greens,
and that's just because of the aging process.
That's what I'm looking for in a cheese like this.
After the cheesecloth is off,
I like to cut off the very ends of the cheese.
I just feel like they can get drier on the very edges.
And I'm really looking for that wonderful cheese
on the inner sides.
So I'll take a knife and I'll slice them off.
This tool is a cheese wire.
It's actually more effective to cutting into those truckles
than a knife would be.
I'm gonna use this to cut my truckle in half.
Mmm, this looks good and it smells really good.
Now I'm gonna cut it into smaller pieces.
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And then they'll be ready to package.
And that's how you break down a truckle of Wisconsin cheese.
I hope you enjoyed this,
and I hope you'll gather with us next time,
Around the Farm Table!
I'm your host, Inga Witscher.
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