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Cheese

Cheese
Cheese
Type Artisan Good
Machine Cheese Press
Ingredients Milk (1); Large Milk (1)
Time 200min (3.3h)
Sell Price 230g
Energy 125
Health 56

Cheese is the everyday artisan good of the barn. Putting cow's Milk into a Cheese Press turns it into Cheese in a little over three hours. Normal Milk makes normal Cheese, and Large Milk makes gold-star Cheese. A Cask in the cellar can then age it to iridium in just two weeks, quicker than any drink. Cheese goes into Pizza, Cheese Cauliflower and Pepper Poppers, and it fills a slot in the Artisan Bundle. Nearly every villager likes it, which makes it a dependable everyday gift.

The in-game description reads: It's your basic cheese.


Making

Cows give the Milk. A cow milked with a Milk Pail each morning gives Milk, and a well-loved, happy cow sometimes gives Large Milk instead. The Cheese Press works fast enough to run several batches a day, so one press can keep up with a small herd.

The Cheese Press is a Farming recipe. Finishing the Animal Bundle in the Pantry of the Community Center also rewards one.

The quality of the Milk has no effect on the Cheese. Normal, silver, gold and iridium Milk all make the same normal Cheese. Only the size of the jug matters, and Large Milk always gives a gold-star wheel.

A few other routes bring in Cheese without a press. A pet cat at full friendship sometimes brings a wheel as a gift. The Desert Trader also swaps one Emerald for one Cheese on Fridays.

These are the ingredients one batch needs.

Name Image Amount
Milk Milk 1
Large Milk Large Milk 1

Prices

Cheese sells for nearly twice the price of plain Milk. The gap shrinks fast with quality, though. Gold Milk sells for only a little less than a normal wheel, and iridium Milk sells for more. Pressing iridium Milk therefore loses money unless the Cheese goes on to a Cask or the Artisan profession is chosen.

The Artisan profession adds two fifths to Cheese. The Rancher profession also raises its price by a fifth.

A Cask gives the biggest boost. Cheese turns silver after three days, gold after a week and iridium after two weeks. Iridium Cheese is worth twice the plain wheel. Large Milk starts the wheel at gold, so it needs only the final week in the Cask. Cheese earns less per Cask day than Goat Cheese or the best wines, but it beats Beer, Mead and most fruit wines.

Uses

Cooking uses Cheese in a handful of dishes. Pam mails the Cheese Cauliflower recipe at three hearts, and Shane mails Pepper Poppers at three hearts. Pizza comes from The Queen of Sauce or from the Stardrop Saloon.

One Cheese can fill a slot in the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry. The bundle asks for six artisan items or fruits, and finishing it rewards a Keg.

At the Sewing Machine, Cheese in the spool makes a Shirt. Cheese is also a yellow dye in the dye pots at 2 Willow Lane.

Cooking Cheese with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish Image Ingredients
Cheese Cauliflower Cheese Cauliflower Cauliflower (1), Cheese (1)
Pepper Poppers Pepper Poppers Hot Pepper (1), Cheese (1)
Pizza Pizza Wheat Flour (1), Tomato (1), Cheese (1)

Gifts

Cheese is a liked gift for most of the valley, including Abigail, Gus, Krobus, Leo and the Wizard. Harvey dislikes it. Jas, Sebastian and Vincent hate a wheel of Cheese.

Notes

A gold-star wheel from Large Milk restores nearly twice the energy of a normal one. Silver and iridium wheels come only from the Cask, because the press makes just normal and gold Cheese.

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Name Image Machine Time
Aged Roe Aged Roe Preserves Jar 4000m (3-4 days)
Beer Beer Keg 1750m (≈29h)
Cask Productivity - - -
Caviar Caviar Preserves Jar 6000m (4 days)
Cheese Cheese Cheese Press 200min (3.3h)
Cloth Cloth Loom 240m (≈4h)
Coffee Coffee Keg 120m (2h)
Dinosaur Mayonnaise Dinosaur Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Dried Fruit Dried Fruit Dehydrator 1750m (≈1d)
Dried Mushrooms Dried Mushrooms Dehydrator 1750m (≈1d)
Duck Mayonnaise Duck Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Goat Cheese Goat Cheese Cheese Press 200m (≈3h)
Green Tea Green Tea Keg 180m (3h)
Honey Honey Bee House 6100m (≈4d)
Jellies and Pickles - - -
Juice Juice Keg 6000m (≈4d)
Keg Productivity - - -
Maple Syrup Maple Syrup Tapper; Heavy Tapper 9 or 4 days
Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Mead Mead Keg 10h
Mystic Syrup Mystic Syrup Tapper; Heavy Tapper 7 or 3 days
Oak Resin Oak Resin Tapper; Heavy Tapper 7 or 3 days
Oil Oil Oil Maker Varies by ingredient
Pale Ale Pale Ale Keg 2250m (37.5h)
Pine Tar Pine Tar Tapper; Heavy Tapper 5 or 2 days
Preserves Jar Productivity - - -
Raisins Raisins Dehydrator 1750m (≈29h)
Smoked Fish Smoked Fish Fish Smoker 50m
Truffle Oil Truffle Oil Oil Maker 360m (6h)
Void Mayonnaise Void Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Wine Wine Keg 10,000m (≈7d)