I have a dedicated fridge in the basement that I intend on using for my cheese. At the moment it stands empty which gives me time to experiment with the temperature and humidity controllers. The temperature controller I have does a good job at maintaining the temp at around 53 degrees.
Last night I hooked my desktop humidifier up to the humidity controller and set it at 90%. It did hit the 90%, but unfortunately the inside of the fridge looks as though someone splashed a bucket of water inside! There was water running down the walls and the glass shelves had large puddles of water standing on them. I shut the humidifier off and this morning opened up the door to this mess and the humidity gauge said 64%. I did at one point have a small 3 inch desk top fan blowing inside to move the mist around, but the fan was very wet and I didn’t like that, as electric and water are a bad combination! The fan and humidifier were hooked to the controller to go on and off together. I had the humidifier set on the highest setting and I’m thinking that it put out too much too fast. I’ll try the lower setting tonight. But still, 90% humidity is the same no matter how fast it takes to get it there I guess.
I’m open to some ideas here, but I have to say that 85% - 90% humidity really looks like a rainstorm just passed through. I can’t help but wonder how a wheel of cheese with a puddle of water sitting on top of it does it any good!
Pehaps clean towels on the floor and shelves to catch the water and hold the dampness would help in maintaining a uniform humidity, I don’t know. At the moment it’s all plastic and glass, so puddling is the result.