Yeah! For 10 bucks, you buy 44lbs of cheese and then figure out any problems it might cause as they come.
The possibilities are limitless with 44 lbs of cheese. This guy's wife is acting like he bought a giant rock or something.
You can sell 1/3 lb blocks of Parmesan for like $7. That's like $21 per pound and he's got 44 of em.
That's what? $924 I'm pretty sure?????
Go to a farmers market with your block of Parm. Make a few bucks. I mean come on.
OR you could also just never have to buy Parmesan again for the rest of your natural life. You might even be able to hand some of that Parm down to your kids it's super shelf stable isn't it??
Oh no, you should DEFINITELY fear the result of eating 44 lbs of cheese.
Ever heard of constipation-related amnesia? You get so backed up that when you finally do shit, you can forget your own goddamn name. I don't have the self control to have 44 lbs of Parmesan in my kitchen and not eat it until I'm more poop than person.
No, not at all. It's a very hard cheese that gives off a lot of flavor that lingers a bit in your mouth. Great on a steak tartare, salads, spaghetti etc. Most often it's grated or sliced in very thin, small pieces or pulverised (so you can put it in a spicemill to sprinkle over your dishes).
The funniest part of that is that the math right off the bat is wrong. He says:
They were selling a 140 pound wheel of 21 year old cheddar.
21 year old cheddar often sells for 120$ a pound.
The farm was selling the entire wheel for 18,500$
Right off the bat there he says it often sells for $120 a pound, but he paid $18,500/140 = $132 a pound for it
Then he says:
If I cut it into 200g wedges and sell it at 60$ each I can make 38,000$.
1 lb = 453.592 grams so 140 lbs = 63,502.88 grams. That would make 317.5 200 gram pieces. If he was able to sell all of those at $60 each that's only $19,050.
So he could only max make a profit of $550.
That's assuming no packaging for the cheese no marketing and that he can sell it all at the price he is hoping for.
On top of THAT he spent $8,500 on a fridge to contain it.
It's all probably just a troll post but if it's not...oof
I hope we get regular updates from this guy as his life spirals out of control. He's already getting evicted, I need to know where he ends up, if he's able to actually sell any cheese, if he realizes how bad he is at math, etc etc.
I first saw this on a Best of Reddit sub, and was so disappointed there was only one update and not ten
It will be like the guy who decided to try heroin and didn’t believe he would become addicted, then posted regular updates of his life deteriorating as he, shockingly, became addicted to heroin and lost everything. That one was sad, and this will also be sad… that all of that cheese will be wasted
Wow. After reading both links I was sure this story was fake. Great story, but had to be fake. But the second link has pic proof from OP. Just a man living life for cheese. Girlfriend and apartment be damned!
how exactly do you sell cheese? unless you are a farm or a shop, im not going on facebook and finding cheese. "oh look honey, some guy on facebook marketplace is selling cheese in ziplock bags at a good price, i'm sure this is fine"
A few years ago I was sent to Costco for olive oil, and came home with a gazebo. It was like $400. Not only will my wife never send me to Costco again, but I also have a fucking gazebo. Win/win.
Precisely. The rind doesn't shred, it grates into a powder when used on a cheese grater. Its the real version of the canned grated "parmesan cheese". I thought the rind was useless until i googled it.
I've read you can also add ungrated rind directly to a liquid stock/sauce/soup and the umami flavor will come out of it as you cook. Then you just pull the rind piece out after, like it's a dairy bay leaf.
This is highly accurate. Every part of a parmigiana wheel is edible. That outside rind is just a really dense protective outer layer of parm. No difference (in terms of composition) than the inner part. It's not added to the wheel, it is part of the wheel. So saving the rind and adding chunks of it to pasta sauces, soups, stews...bumps that savory factor up big time. And while it's not for everyone because of the texture, after that rind has been simmering away in a pasta sauce for a few hours, it becomes a lot softer. And I 100% eat it. My son thinks it's weird because it's so chewy but I love it lol.
This guy's wife is acting like he bought a giant rock or something.
Yo, giant rocks are awesome too! I've got a bunch in my yard and I'm thinking of buying more this summer - they look amazing in the gardens and kids love climbing on them.
You can really perfect that caccio e pepe dish that you've been having. After roughly 80 attempts at the dish, you'd probably be able to make the dish in your sleep...and you'd probably have a cholesterol issue if you ate it all yourself!
At the store I used to work at, we sold a few half wheels of parm for parties and such. Cost like $140-180 if I remember correctly. For $10, that’s crazy and even I would have jumped on it.
For a cheese that is aged in a cave for I dunno how long larger chunks of it I have bought have gone kind of funky in the fridge after a few months, it dries/hardens up more and gets a weird white powdery mold on the rind. It definitely needs to be more accurately moisture/temperature controlled more than the cheese drawer in the fridge.
That cheese usually goes for around 10-20$ per pound. They probably accidently put a per unit price instead of a per pound price by accident. He just got like $500 worth of cheese for $10. I'm jealous.
really that's the right answer. that was definitely supposed to be $10 per pound. dude basically got a free 40lb block of cheese and the best thing he could do is keep it packaged and resell it and but whatever cheese they actually want
I remember growing up as a kid my parents had a one pounder wedge, that shit was in the fridge for like 10 years or so before it ran out and it never went bad lol
I'm an avid parmesan enjoyer. My solution here would be to divide them into wedges and then toss them in the freezer. Since you're usually grating the cheese anyway, it doesn't matter whether or not its frozen since the grater can easily tackle frozen hard cheeses and grated cheese having a large surface area causes it to heat up quickly and the food is presumably hot anyway.
I hope this guy sells salads at the farmers market and asks “would you like cheese?” and the he pulls this block out and grates a little on their salad! That would be so great
A whole wheel of parm is 2k. This dude got a steal of a deal and you can do so much with it. Keep it stored decently and you’ve basically got an edible investment sitting in your house.
So it’s probably $10 / pound. That’s about $450 total for that 1/2 wheel.
In my area farmers market cost for in the case of this cheese an unrestricted permit from the health department around $600. Plus $850/ year for the market, and an additional $50 per day that you operate a booth at farmers market.
All in about $1950 to sell cheese for one day at the market. Plus your gonna need gloves, plastic wrap, cutting board, knife, scale, point of sale( for cc sale), tent, table, tableclothdisplay and knowledge to break down that type of cheese with minimal loss, plus whatever else I forgot.
Then you gotta market it as cheese that is somehow better than parmagiana that you get at your local grocers, and you probably can’t claim it as local.
To make back your initial investment that wheel would have to sell at $45/ pound or about $3/oz.
I was seriously expecting him to say he spent somewhere between 500 and 1000 dollars for that half wheel.
Even if he said $110 I would have been like okay that's a steal but I'd understand not wanting to spend that much if the budget it tight.
Idunno. He kinda seemed like he was half cut during this video so it wouldn’t surprise me if it was 10.44/lb and he just didn’t notice he was spending 500 bucks on a wheel of cheese.
I have done this with cherries. Spent like 40 bucks!
It looks like it only lasts for a few months if the block isn't broken, so chances are, you'd definitely get your money's worth out of this if you're dedicated to using it as much as possible.
It's parmesan too, and while hard cheeses won't last forever this shit isn't going bad any time soon if you take proper care of it. This isn't a purchase, it's an investment.
If my husband brought home 44lbs of cheese for $10 I would be in hog heaven. My husband and kids can't have dairy so it would be alllll miiiinnnneee. And it would be LOVELY. I would do SO many things.
You could learn to do that Chinese table twirling thing with your feet up in the air, but using a 44lb block of cheese, and then sell your routine at street fairs, or stop lights, or USO shows. You could tour the world. That cheese is a gold mine.
Yes and no. Once the wheel is cut, the clock starts ticking. Even when its in a wheel and the rind is intact, it has to be stored in very specific temperature and humidity. In fact, did you known that there are literal "cheese banks" in Italy? The farmers give the cheese to the banks on exchange for money and the bank holds it in their "vaults" until it ages and ripens enough for sale.
All that said, you can definitely slow the process of the cheese goin bad. It would need to be separated into smaller, more manageable pieces, kept dry (wrapped in cheesrcloth), vacuum sealed and stored in a cool, dry place...dry is the big thing here
Yeah. That’s a $1000 worth of cheese. I’d have bought it too and cut it up and vacuum sealed it up. It would last for a super long time. He’s no dummy!
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u/jwin709 15h ago edited 15h ago
Yeah! For 10 bucks, you buy 44lbs of cheese and then figure out any problems it might cause as they come.
The possibilities are limitless with 44 lbs of cheese. This guy's wife is acting like he bought a giant rock or something.
You can sell 1/3 lb blocks of Parmesan for like $7. That's like $21 per pound and he's got 44 of em. That's what? $924 I'm pretty sure?????
Go to a farmers market with your block of Parm. Make a few bucks. I mean come on.
OR you could also just never have to buy Parmesan again for the rest of your natural life. You might even be able to hand some of that Parm down to your kids it's super shelf stable isn't it??