I bought a pound of mozarella cheese 2 months back. However, yesterday night I was tired and forgot it outside!
Answers: It was in a ziplock bag, but outside the fridge. Today morning when I saw it, I opened the bag to check. It had big green mould growing on it!!! Did that happen in one night???? I must mention that I have been using it (a little though) for the past 2 months, and havent been sick yet...
I don't know what the mozzarella where you live is like, but I've never heard of a mozzarella lasting, or being good at all, for as long as 2 months.
Fresh mozzarella is moist and milky, and kept in a whey that quickly starts to stink (and the cheese itself gets all mushy) immediately once past its "best by" date which, I believe, is only around a couple of weeks after production. If its "best by" date is unusually long, it means the milk has been treated to make it last longer (preservatives?). Actually, at least "officially" speaking, it should be eaten the same day it is produced, or as soon as possible after that.
If there's a drier version of mozzarella on the market, I still can't see how it could last 2 months, since it's supposed to be a fresh, and not an aged, cheese. Maybe the fact that it changed so drastically has to do with the fact that it was, in fact, too old, but the refrigerator had managed to slow down or retard the moulding process.
There is also the fact that, being in a closed ziplock bag and at room temperature, this probably had sort of a greenhouse effect, speeding up the mould growth when you left it out of the fridge.
Eat it all in one bite. Just to see what happens.
mouldy cheese won't make you sick, it just taste bad.
if it was there for 2 months in the fridge it was starting to go mouldy and being left out over night just speed things up.
Mozzarella is a fresh cheese and should have an expire date on it. Isn't in a brine? If it molds then chuck it.