After six years of making cheese plates as a hobby-turned-side-hustle, I realized I followed the same order of operations while building any given plate. To this day, the order has never failed me!

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Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. A cheese plate can be many things. A party ...

Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. A few years ago ...

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There's two annoying things about cheese plates. The first thing is that they're really delicious. The second is that it's not so easy to carry them around, and if you've got a smaller plate you'll ...