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This.
Time and space are major impacts to the cost when aging.
And cheese needs to be moved when aging. Like flipped over. This is done all day, every day, at the larger places because they have so many blocks of cheese. And it loses some weight as it ages. Not as much as alcohol, but some.
It’s similar to things like alcohol. Champagne bottles must be turned every day. Whiskey in barrels loses upwards of 2% per year as it ages, so a 40 year old cask has lost eighty percent of it’s volume, while sitting in a cellar and taking up space.
Whiskey in barrels loses upwards of 2% per year as it ages, so a 40 year old cask has lost eighty percent of it’s volume
Your maths is a bit off here. If you lose 2% per year for 40 years, you have lost just 55.42% of the initial volume.
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It takes much more work to turn milk into cheese than it does to milk the cow and pasteurize it.
And yet there is a such a surplus of milk that the US gov has bought the extra in order to keep cheese prices sustainable for the high number of dairy farmers, then turned the milk into a national stockpile of cheese and then sell it cheaply to help find the entire racket, for the last few decades.
Yeah when I start ranting about the government’s cheese caves under Missouri people think I’ve finally cracked, but they’re real. It started as a program to help farmers during the great depression, but by now it’s just socializing the dairy industry and keeping prices artificially high. I don’t think they sold it to fund the program though, they distributed it through food security programs.
There’s gotta be better foods for the government to stockpile and distribute to the hungry than cheese though, it’s tasty, but it’s not great for you and it’s not filling many nutritional gaps. Not to mention lots of people can’t even eat it without getting sick
Cheese is just milk gone off big time styley. LESS ASPENSIVE.
Whenever I hear someone complain about things being expensive, I’m reminded of this:
“It ain’t expensive, it’s just that your salary is low”
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Maybe people who downvoted you don’t know that in order for cows to produce milk they have to have given birth recently.
And then their calf taken away and fed formula
You made me laugh!
