We've have been back to the drawing board and tweaked our design again and again, and our warehouse now has cheese presses just waiting to be delivered to all those cheesemakers who have been waiting so patiently since we first made an announcement before Christmas.

With extra height, you can press multiple cheeses at once, but it works just as well if you are only pressing single cheeses.

There are sixteen different holes in the press, so you can adjust the post to fit the entire range of our hard cheese baskets. We've successfully tested the press with the following baskets:

Basket P00645

Basket P00653

Basket P00654

Basket P00662

Basket P00682

Basket P00742

Basket P29310

Basket P43310

Basket P45340

Basket P45350

Basket P57320

You can manually adjust the pressure by placing however much weight on top you need. The weight isn't included. We tend to use a bucket filled with water, as seen in the photo above, which means that the weight is flexible depending on how much water you add.

The presses are made from sanded, untreated wood, and we recommend that you treat it yourself with any food grade oil you have in your kitchen. You do this in the same way that you would treat a wooden chopping board. Just rubbing the oil into the surface is the best way of maintaining the press in good nick.