A cornerstone of a rancher’s life inStardew Valleyis milk. A happyCowcan produce high-quality milk every day, and a happy goat can produce goat milk every other day. But while players can get good moneyby selling large milk bottles every day, they can get even more money by crafting them into iridium-gradeCheese.
To create this high-value cheese, players must first get a cheese press. Not every quality cheese is more valuable than every quality of milk, butonce players build the cellar, cheese should be the only dairy product that leaves the farm.
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How to Get and Use a Cheese Press
There are two ways to get a cheese press inStardew Valley. The direct way is to reach Farming 6, which unlocks the crafting recipe. The ingredients needed are:
However players get the press, they can place it anywhere inside or outside on the farm. To use it, set a milk bottle as the active inventory item and interact with the press. After 200 in-game minutes, the milk will turn into cheese. Like with other machines, players must remove the cheese before placing more milk.
Both regular milk and large milk will become regular cheese, while goat milk and large goat milk will become goat cheese. Regular milk becomes a base-quality cheese, while large milkbecomes gold-quality cheese. The quality of the milk has no impact on the quality of the cheese.
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How to Improve Cheese
Just like wine and beer, a good-quality cheese needs to spend some time in a cool, dark cellar to bring out its flavor. To age their cheese,players must have the cellar upgrade and a free cask. Toss it in, wait a few days, and eventually iridium-grade cheese will be ready to sell. Regular cheese takes two full weeks to mature while gold cheese only needs one week.
Iridium goat cheese is the most expensive dairy product players can sell, but players who don’t have a cellar may want to sell their high-quality milk instead. This choice depends on whether players chose the Rancher profession at Farming 5 or the Artisan profession at Farming 10 (note that players can’t be both a Rancher and an Artisan at the same time).
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Stardew Valleyis available now on Android, iOS, PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
