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##*I'll update this in the future with a note on which techniques seems to hold up the best.<br />[[File:gouda_23.jpg|600px]]
##As for clean up. You can see that a real mess was made of the board during this process. I scraped excess wax off of the board and put it back in the pot for use later. Hot water and a couple paper towels seems to do the trick to for final cleanup. It's hard to see, but the brush has a good bit of wax left in it. This should be fine as it will melt and liquefy next time you do this process. Also, the board, and even the pot, are very slightly stained pink.<br />[[File:gouda_22.jpg|600px]][[File:gouda_25.jpg|600px]]
##As for the excess wax, '''DON'T DO THIS''' I lined a small tuperware with foil and poured it in to let it dry into a block. Unfortunately ###I must have poked a hole in the foil as I pressed it into the tuperware because some wax leaked through and underneath sorta gluing the foil/wax into the tuperware. I had to float it in a larger bowl of hot water to warm the wax up the bottom to get it out.###The wax is too weak/brittle. It didn't really conform, cleanly, to the shape of the tuperware and instead made little ridges & valleys. Be careful with As a result I had to peel the brittle foil or use another material like wax paperoff in little 1/2" squares as it kept tearing. ###If I were to do this step again I think I'll put d just poor the block in hot wax into some hot water. Wax floats and tends to cool into a ziplock bag for next timenice floating disc that is much easier to get free.<br />[[File:gouda_24.jpg|600px]]
==References==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1270920.Cheesemaking_Made_Easy Cheese Making Made Easy: 60 Delicious Varieties by Ricki & Robert Carroll]
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