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- Serve it at room temperature. Cold cheese tastes muted. Take it out of the fridge at least 30 minutes before serving, but don't leave it out more than two hours.
- Pick three to five cheeses that are different from each other: mix the milks and the types. How to build a cheese board.
- Buy about an ounce of each cheese per guest for an appetizer, more if the cheese is the meal. How much cheese should I buy?
- Let the cheese board builder do the math. Tell it how many people you're feeding and what you like, and it plans the cheeses, the amounts and a shopping list. Try the cheese board builder.
- Give each cheese its own knife, and use the right one for the texture. See how to choose a cheese knife and how to cut cheese.
- Eat the rind? Bloomy and washed rinds are made to be eaten. Natural rinds are up to you. Wax, cloth and plastic are not. Can I eat the rind?
- Something to drink. What wine or whiskey goes with cheese?
- Melt it. That's the next chapter: cooking with cheese.
Cheese knife set
A basic set usually covers soft, semi-firm and hard cheeses, so each cheese on the board gets its own knife.
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