More than 8,000 people logged on Wednesday to watch a 44-pound wheel of cheddar cheese mature on Cheddarvision.tv, the brainchild of British cheese maker Tom Calver.

And Wednesday was an especially exciting day: Visitors were able to watch the cheese, nicknamed "Wedginald," undergo its nine-month grading examination, the last of three tests the cheese had to pass during its maturation process.

More than 1.5 million have seen the process till now.