Mouldy Cheese

[bluemoon1]

I'm not a big lover of cheese and when I have it,it's usually the slices or spreadable types. I bought some block cheese recently though and I tried a bit and liked it, but when I got it out of the fridge again it had gone mouldy. It's still got a month on the sell by date and I've read that you have to cut the mould of to about an inch below it. The blocks only an inch thick so do I have to throw it out?

[DTCwordfan]

what sort of cheese?

[Vagus]

I just slice off the mouldy bit and eat the rest.
I’m still alive.
You know you can freeze cheese?

[DTCwordfan]

As René Descartes logic goes, Vagus, 'Do you think you are alive or is it a figment of your imagination?' DT smiles, cheesily, and gets his coat.

[Atheist]

You don't need to slice off mould, you simply scrape it off. When's the last time you heard of a mouldy cheese scare? Some of the finest cheeses are mouldy.

[DTCwordfan]

The Chinese don't understand how we can eat blue cheeses!! And they eat bats - in fact, in my experience, anything but blue cheese and horse-meat. Never seen them on a menu - though there are big regional differences.

[davebro]

depends what the mould is I suppose. I just cut a thin slice off the mouldy side and eat the rest.

[Atheist]

I do what Dave does. If the mould tastes bad, I don't eat it, if it's tasty I do eat it and enjoy. My favourite is rind. I know people who won't even eat the outside crust of Camembert or Brie (or even courgettes!!).

[ubasses]

Cut a as thin a slice as necessary off and eat. How did you store it?

[Atheist]

Cheese, and many other food products, are designed to be long-lasting ways of preserving perishable foodstuffs. Honey has been found to be delicious after thousands of years in a pyramid. Cheese (the corpse of milk, according to James Joyce) is a way of preserving milk. Dried pasta and noodles was invented as a way or preserving flour for longer periods than simply keeping sacks of flour in a rat-infested warehouse. Salt of course is famous for food preservation - bacon, ham, sauerkraut, kippers (whoops, no that was smoke! but herrings and cod loved it.)

[Peter Pedant]

yes or no - - eat mouldy bits on toast
or..... toast and grill moudy bits and then eat

you will live to tell us the tale!

[Fitzer]

Dates on pre-packaged block cheese tend to refer to an unopened pack, there will usually be a ‘use within a week once opened’ somewhere. As per the others this is bunkum, scrape off the mould to expose a fresh surface and keep on chomping.

[Peter Pedant]

foo eat the mould as well and clean out yer insides wiv penicillin or something

[bluemoon1]

Ok, so it's cheddar cheese and I store it in the fridge in the resealable bag it comes in. It's next to some cheese slices and the other stuff one has in a fridge and nothing else goes off, in fact the opposite, as I'm not always opening the door things tend to last longer.
This is the second time it has happened and I just wondered if I was doing something wrong. When it's in the supermarket in the same bag it doesn't go off.

[bluemoon1]

Whilst I was writing that some others posted and I guess I'm not gonna die if I eat it. If I stop posting you'll know the cause :=)

[DTCwordfan]

Be warned! https://img.srgcdn.com/e//MmpJVmV2M0QyMzMxWURiUmVmTGsucG5n.jpg

[Peter Pedant]

even if it crawled out of the fridge - silent and slimy
( whilst you are posting of course)
I would probably stamp on it and then eat it

[ummmm]

When we had the pub my nan would buy massive blocks of cheese. She used a speed peeler to take the mould off.

This was for pool and darts teams.

[ubasses]

Make sure you squeeze any air out before resealing.

[bluemoon1]

Fitzer got it, it has to be eaten within seven days, i's about a fortnight old. I'll still eat it, as long as I know what it is lol.

[Maydup]

I keep cheese in a plastic box and I dont experience mould. Mind you we eat it pretty fast.