Almost 800 dollars worth of cheese, frozen
The truck was loaded backwards. Perishables in the freezer, frozen in the cooler. The wall wasn’t closed properly so most of the frozen material was ok.
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To my knowledge (not an expert) at least hard cheeses don't have any problem with being frozen.
I've had to freeze some out of necessity and found some get a little extra crumbly but never too badly
Standard procedure is the food supplier replaces all this but lets the restaurant keep the messed up product. OP and his work friends have $800 of cheese to take home if they're okay with thawing it out
Cheddar turns into a crumbly weird mess
As someone who worked logistics, the 'wall wasn’t closed properly' is the only thing that saved the driver from a $3,000 insurance claim. $800 of cheese is painful, but a whole truck of thawed frozen goods would have been a career-ender
Are you saying a whole truck of frozen goods would only cost $3000? Confused what he’d be claiming.
First in to say those modular multi temp walls can GET FUKT
The driver didn’t load the truck. He was the one that discovered what happened and immediately told us when he came in.
People keep saying it’s fine as if it’s fine for a halfway decent grocery store or restaurant to sell. Like I have plenty of months old stuff frozen in my freezer but I’d not be happy to get months old frozen stuff at a restaurant.
I think they mean it would be fine for *them*, but I used to manage a cheese shop and have a CCP accreditation, so while I might not be THE authority, I’d consider myself somewhat knowledgeable about the topic. If this delivery was received to the cheese shop I ran, it would ...
You must be going to some pretty fancy restaurants and grocery stores if you’re not expecting any months-old frozen stuff. Remember, basically anything you buy frozen at the grocery had to go from harvest, to production, to packaging, to storage, to transport, to storage, to ...
Exactly. My customers trust me and our co-op. We will get credit and I will most likely be able to sell this at a discount.
Don't see a problem here. Cheese is just fine. If you'd said blast freezer I'd be worried. Hell, I'll buy it all.
What's a blast freezer?
Wouldn't a blast chiller be more likely to preserve texture, not less?
Ha ha. Knew i would see Wallace in the comments when i read the title.
Was it KeHE that delivered it?
They suck so much on both sides, I've worked retail and for a company that has our product distributed by them and it's a nightmare either way.
Good eye!!!
Everything except the burrata should be fine
Wait, I guess I don't understand the loading process or trailer refrigeration... How do you accidentally load the freezer section with "KEEP REFRIGERATED" and "DO NOT FREEZE" boxes and not realize it?
In most trailers, the power comes from the truck/cab and the compressor(s) are in the front of the trailer. When they load the trailer, they load all the frozen things close to the front/compressor and then close a "wall" inside (that is not as insulated as the sides of the tr...
I freeze cheese all the time. Hard cheese like cheddar gets a bit crumbly, soft like cream cheese may separate but I still use it.
I cam help with disposal, where you at?
As a former executive chef and current food retail bitchboi, oooooooof
I would make do!!!!! I can use all of that please
Just wait until you hear about the cheese cave in the usa
I freeze cheese all the time
That’s cool. You can do whatever you want with your cheese. You paid for it. Unfortunately, freezing cheese and then thawing it changes the texture, quality and shelf life of the product. I sell cheese for retail. I can’t afford to sell poor quality cheeses.
That’s a lot of cheddar. Heading out now…
Is cheese not supposed to be frozen? I can't say that I've ever done it but can't see why I couldn't?
What the consumer does with it after purchase is their business. Retailers have to store it at certain temps. Cycling through freezing and thawing multiple times will affect the quality. If it arrives at the wrong temp, it gets tossed. If it temps out at the store, it gets t...
A lot of semi hard cheeses crumble when frozen and thawed, they would be safe, but not right.
Even the burrata is probably okay, depending what you’re doing.
My mom always froze cheddar when i was growing up and it was fine. Now it crumbles into stupid bits of disappointment. What changed?
If you remember the brand, look up the ingredients. That’s what has probably changed.
Dang. Haven’t you heard the old adage of ‘don’t put all your cheese in one walk-in cooler on the transport truck’?
Cries in Wisconsin 😢
Fun story: I used to work in the office of a trucking company, and I entered all the pickup information into the computer, including the product, weight, etc. The code for perishable dairy was PD, and the code for frozen dairy (which we almost never did because we didn't have...
The cheese will survive
I always do
From Wisconsin…..cheese freezes fine.
Perfect for tall guys when nobody's watching.
Do any of the boxes say “do not freeze” on them?
Barry and Levon? Where’d you get the $800? Sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Don’t you worry your pretty little head none
almost 800 dollars worth of cheese, stolen
Did you realize that we can see the load shipping labels? ( that usually details who and what store this is?) I dont want you to get into trouble.
Out of curiosity, was this at HEB?
Nope.
Gotta pay the cheese tax.
I was a sample person at a Sam's club several years ago and while I didn't work for Sam's I had worked at a Walmart for a few years. It was the very first year they'd opened and for fall, the store received several massive pallets of ornamental pepper plants meant for the gard...
Call that dude that spent $30k on a wheel of cheddar.
Wait… you didn’t reject it?
Sysco?
For I second I thought this post was from the guy who bought a wheel of cheese thinking he could make money off of it (and he made some other questionable choices but the cheese made his girlfriend leave him)
Cheese freezes fine. Source: I'm from Wisconsin
I honestly think it’ll be ok. I keep cheese in my chest freezer all the time and don’t have any issues.
Honestly, the truck should've been rejected.
lol what Publix do you receive at?
If you thaw in the fridge most will be fine. If this is a higher end restaurant, then the chef may not want to use this stock for a cheese plate but a good chef should be able to minimize the loss by focusing on dishes where the cheese is melted in. If the head chef is at a l...
It’s all for retail. I run the cheese counter at my local co-op grocery store. I’m sure we will get credit for it and I should be able to sell it at a discount. I don’t want to erode the trust my customers have in my department by selling them something that won’t be up to par...
From what I heard in the comments, melty is fine. Grilled cheese sandwich special’pick 3 cheeses from list’ and a nice soup. Yum
This is all for retail. While I’m sure most of them are ok, their shelf life has most certainly been halved and it would be irresponsible for me to pass this to my customers.
Once had my coworker put a frozen pallet in the refrigerator lol.
Only a fool would think this is all spoilage.
My grandma had a wheel of Pecorino Romano that she brought back from a trip to Italy in 1989 in her freezer for basically my entire life. We'd go to the freezer, cut off a hunk, and then shred it for our pasta. Never had a problem with that use! And it didn't mold. Excellent u...
Hard cheeses do pretty well in the freezer, due to their lower moisture content.
I suggest thawing it.
Ummm so what? Thaw it out, it’ll be fine
It will not be fine. The quality of the product diminishes as well as the shelf life. It is irresponsible of me to sell it for retail which is its intended purpose.
Looks boxed to me
Yes. Cheese gets shipped in boxes.
Frozen cheese is fine it just needs to defrost in the cooler before being put in the floor first at least 24 hours. Would hate to have to respond to a customer complaint about their spreadable Aloutte isn’t spreadable and its a block.
Frozen cheese is not fine. The integrity, quality and shelf life suffer greatly.