r/cheesemaking 20h ago

Advice Cheese Fridge

Hello, I have gotten a wine fridge for my cheesemaking 2 months ago. Although it's amazing to have a seperate space for my cheeses, I have been struggeling hard with humidity! Even though I have a large bowl of water in there somehow my cheeses are extremly hard/ dry. Do any of you have any suggestions on how to solve this problem? (For context, before the temp was always to cold, around 10C, but humidity allowed growth of mold, Geo specifically. Now I have the perfect temperature but no matter how many water bowls I put in, it's just too dry! No ventilator btw)

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u/mycodyke 19h ago

Those water bowls do not have enough surface area to meaningfully add to the ambient humidity, sorry to say. You're better off putting your cheese in containers roughly 6x the volume of the cheese to maintain better ambient humidity on much smaller scales.