Can I Still Use This Cheese...?!
It is a block of Cheddar!. It had a small amount of white powdery looking mold and a few spots of dark blue mold!. I cut the outside surfaces off and it is clean inside!. The Cheddar doesn't smell very fresh but it doesn't smell bad either!. I've heard you can still eat it like this!. Is that true!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
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Yes you can!. I used to work at a cheese shop and once a week my boss would make me unwrap cheese with mold, cut it off and re-wrap it!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
All you need to do (you did) was cut the mold off and it's fine!. I grew up on mold, and moldy cheese!. Momma just cut the fuzzy parts off!.
It's best to shave the moldy parts off so you keep most of the cheese!. Then, wrap it in wax paper so it can breathe (so says Alton Brown)!. I keep mine in a plastic bag!.
Cheese is mold to begin with!. Ever heard of "aged cheddar"!? Eat it, it's fine!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It's best to shave the moldy parts off so you keep most of the cheese!. Then, wrap it in wax paper so it can breathe (so says Alton Brown)!. I keep mine in a plastic bag!.
Cheese is mold to begin with!. Ever heard of "aged cheddar"!? Eat it, it's fine!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yes you can, the white mould is similar to what you get on Brie and the blue is a form of penecilian mould, like in blue cheese!. How ever it is advisable to remove all signs of mould first, as brie, blue etc!.!.!. are produced in controlled circumstances with specific cultures!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yes, it is still good to eat, it happens to me all of the time!.
I have found the cheese will just get tastier!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I have found the cheese will just get tastier!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yes!. There is nothing wrong with it!. Just cut the powdery stuff and mold off!. They actually let cheese go moldy to age it for flavor, you know!? So it will probably taste even more cheddary!!Www@FoodAQ@Com
you sure can still eat it!. i wont hurt you!. Just try to use it up quickly and take as much of the air out if the bag you store it in!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
cut off ANY suspicious areas and use it in cooking ie quesidella, mac and cheese etc! I have done this for 10 or more years and to no disadvantage!!Www@FoodAQ@Com
just cut off the mold - all of it! then eat the clean part unless it smells yucky!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
go for it!
yours and my ancestors would have ate it,they lived,so will you!Www@FoodAQ@Com
yours and my ancestors would have ate it,they lived,so will you!Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yes!. Just cut off the mold and use what's inside!.Www@FoodAQ@Com