Why are there expiration dates on cheese?!
Why are there expiration dates on cheese?
If it goes moldy you cut off the mold and eat it....
Answers:
Cheeses have expiration dates because certain kinds of cheeses are aged for a certain amount of time before they are 'ripe'. They are at their peak of ripeness for only a certain amount of time and after that, are not as good. Sure you can cut off the mold and eat it, (who wants to waste expensive gouda?) it's just the freshness and ripeness are not at the peak. Also, you might think that keeping cheese longer will just increase the ripeness and deepen the flavor, but when cheese is ripened, the conditions are very particular and carefully monitored...very hard to reproduce. Hope that helps!
That is gross - have you ever smelled moldy cheese?
Cheese is a dairy product and dairy can go rancid.
Harder cheeses can still be eaten when you cut the mold off, but it's recommended that if soft cheeses have mold, you throw them away because that type of mold can make you sick, and the mold can be throughout the cheese even if you can't see it.
Cheese do get moldy. My cheese got some mold on it and i threw the whole pack away. The problem is that the bacteria spread to the entire food, so even if u cut off the moldy part, you will still eat the bacteria. So the best choice is to throw them away even if u find it wastefull
because the cheese grows mold and it can be cut off if the cheese is big enough cheese is made from mold cultar