curing room

noun, a room for aging cheese as part of the cheese-making process

“I think cheese in the curing room was a month before it was shipped.”

“So that’s how the cloth got so tight around the cheese, ’cause it was already there when the curd was put in. But when it was taken out of the hoops to go in the curing room, this cheesecloth was taken off. It was just a cheese then.”

“The cheese were 90 pounds, about yay-big around, stood maybe that high. It was all you could do was to lift one. But every day in the curing room, they were taken out of these hoops and taken in the curing room, which was another room, and it was cool. And then every day you had to turn them, like flip them end-for-end.”