If a customer has ever said to you, "Wow, you're great at wrapping cheese! Will you wrap my Christmas presents?" then now is your time to shine behind the counter.  Wrapping your cheese elegantly and neatly in Formaticum cheese paper not only elevates the sales experience for the customer, but also preserves the freshness and flavor of your cheese, ensuring that your customers can experience the cheese in peak condition, even after days in their fridge.

We offer a variety of different materials to properly care for all types of cheese, from blue cheese to the most delicate of bloomy rinds. Check out our video below where we show you different techniques for wrapping different shapes of cheese in our cheese paper. We will also introduce you to our best-selling retail Cheese Storage Bags, so that you can provide your customers with the opportunity to have professional-quality cheese storage at home in a user-friendly bag format. 

Tips for wrapping cheese in paper:

1. Don't rush. We know the holidays can be busy and stressful, but taking the extra few seconds to wrap slowly and neatly and present them with an attractive piece will impress your customer. 

2. Choose the right size paper for your piece of cheese, and cut paper in half for smaller pieces instead of bunching it up under the sticker.

3. Make sure your folds are tight and angles are sharp. This will help you avoid unsightly creasing and wrapping your cheese tightly improves the performance of the paper. 

4. Always place your sticker or scale tag on a flat surface, and avoid putting the barcode on an angle. 

Wrapping cheese beautiful and effectively is a great way to honor the work of farmers, cheesemakers, affineurs, and everyone in between. Show us your wrap skills by posting a video and tagging us @formaticum on Instagram and TikTok and we will share your video! 

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If your display cheese or backstock in your walk-in is drying out too quickly or developing surface mold before it even makes it into your cheese case, it's time to make the switch from plastic wrap to Formaticum professional cheese paper. Our paper is made in Europe and specially designed to help preserve the freshness and flavor of your cheese so that your customers can experience the cheese in peak condition. We offer a variety of different materials to properly care for all types of cheese, from blue cheese to the most delicate of bloomy rinds. 

Unlike plastic wrap, which suffocates your cheese by trapping moisture and allowing excess mold growth, Formaticum cheese paper allows your cheese to breathe while maintaining the right humidity levels to prevent your cheese from drying out. Our Classic Sheets & Rolls are a layer of waxed paper laminated to a thin sheet of food-grade polyethylene, while our Zero sheets offer the same performance without any plastic, and our new Reusable Sheets can be washed and air-dried many times over. 

The biggest advantage of using Formaticum cheese paper is that it can significantly extend the shelf life of your cheese, ensuring that your customers receive the highest quality product possible. Cheese is a living product, and plastic wrap can leach harmful chemicals into the cheese over time, as well as affect the flavor. Formaticum cheese paper does not contain any harmful chemicals and will not affect the flavor of your cheese.

We also offer our best-selling cheese storage products in retail format Cheese Bags & Sheets so that you can provide your customers with the opportunity to have professional-quality cheese storage at home. This not only helps to build customer loyalty but can help raise basket averages as well, especially during gifting season!

If you are looking for another way to honor the work of farmers, cheesemakers, affineurs, and everyone in between, consider making the switch to Formaticum cheese storage products. Your cheese (and your customers) will thank you!

The December edition of Meet Your Monger spotlights Julia Birnbaum, who is undoubtedly one of the hardest working and most passionate folks in the cheese industry. After learning the ropes behind various cheese counters in NYC and Philadelphia, she decided to forge her own path and open Philly Cheese School, a woman- and LGBTQ+ - owned classroom space and haven for all of Philadelphia's cheese lovers. In the noble pursuit of demystifying artisan cheese and appealing to cheese enthusiasts at all levels, Julia offers a variety of public classes encompassing all aspects of cheese serving, pairing, and appreciation. Her classes aim to make artisan cheese more approachable to consumers, and to tell the stories of the people, animals, and places responsible for the cheeses we hold dear. And of course, Julia uses Formaticum products to keep her cheese fresh for her classes, as well as teaches her guests about proper cheese storage! Find out more about Julia and PCS by reading the interview below, and check out the schedule of upcoming classes and events at PCS!

What inspired you to become a cheesemonger and open your own business?
Cheese found me unexpectedly back in 2014 when I was living in Manhattan. Fresh out of college with a degree in writing and ambitions of becoming a pop culture/celebrity gossip/music journalist, I landed an internship at The Source, a hip hop magazine. Ends weren't really meeting, so I decided to pick up a second job and noticed a Murray's Cheese counter nearby. Somehow I landed a gig there as a cheesemonger, and quickly found myself head over heels for the Cheese Industry, and the rest is herstory!