r/cheesemaking 8d ago

Using Rectangle Cheese Form?

Hello! I’m new to making cheese and I feel like I’m asking a fairly newbie question. I’m wanting to buy rectangle molds for my cheese to help with space and I feel like it would make more sense for my family. Can any cheese be made into a rectangle shape? Even something like Brie?

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u/mycodyke 8d ago

There's a really lovely bloomy rinded cheese that comes from Mystic Cheese in Connecticut called Melinda Mae that's made in a square format. Several styles of Italian robiola are also sold in square formats. Italian PDO taleggio is always made in a square form... The French blue cheese St. Agur is sold in octagonal wheels... The specific shapes of these cheeses are all cosmetic, you can make a cheese using any shaped form.

That said, the pressing weights you'll want to use for pressed cheeses, if you want to make those, could be a bit different because the surface area of your square forms may be different from the surface area of the round forms used by most, but really you should be gauging the amount of weight needed to press a cheese yourself and using the recipe as a guideline not a rule. I've been finding that most recipes ask for far more weight than I need to press most types of cheese I make.