When to Eat Your Cheese

Have you ever wondered when the best time to eat a soft cheese is? Cheese continues to ripen even after it’s packaged, effecting the flavour and texture.

At three weeks prior to its ‘Best Before’ date a soft cheese, like camembert, will be ‘good’ in terms of flavour and texture. By two weeks prior to its ‘Best Before’ date it will have started to acquire a more mature and well-rounded flavour, as well as a creamier texture.

If you can resist, wait until one week prior to a cheese’s ‘Best Before’ date before opening a cheese. This is when it will be at its optimum ripeness. It will have a beautiful rounded flavour and a wonderfully creamy texture - just as the cheesemakers intended!