Would you eat this?

[Juanbablo]

Camembert that went out of date on the 2nd? My rational brain says it will be fine. My anxious, emetophobic brain says I'm sure to get sick.

Yes, it's probably not even ripe if you bought it from a UK supermarket.

I've eaten various cheeses far past their use by dates and have never been ill. If it looks OK, it is OK. It needs to be quite oozy for it to be at it's best anyway.

In France they would probably keep it at room temperature for a couple of days to make sure it is properly ripe before eating it.

I’d eat it.

If you've kept it in the fridge it won't even be ready yet, like Barbara says. It'll be fine for weeks yet.

As long as it looks/smells ok & isn't sour/brown like the last post I saw on here about Camembert!

Yes, eat it. You will be fine.

I'd leave it another week until it's ripe enough.

If you're really anxious you could always bake it

Totally fine. Would eat and enjoy!

I'd leave it at room temp to ripen for 24 hours then eat it. I'm quite strict on use by dates except for stinky cheese. Fair game until it walks to the bin by itself.

Fine. I've eaten loads of out of date stuff over Christmas (including tonight's tea of quorn which was best before 20 December but unopened). Obviously I will sniff and taste test stuff rather than blithely eating it but if only a few days have lapsed, it should be fine.

You shouldn’t eat it

You should send it to me and I’ll take care of it for you

It's prob fine, shops just put these dates on to cover themselves. We've been eating horseradish that expired May 2017 all Xmas, whoops. Lol

We cooked it.

It did not smell good at all.

Camembert never smells good!

I wouldn't t eat it. I'm a slave to dates though. Not something I'm particularly proud of, before anyone feels the need to explain, I just can't help it.

Oh dear, I do sympathise. Hope you get rid of the smell.

We've been having trouble with a festive-related whiff in the house and finally found the source earlier today. It was a forgotten Christingle orange. It had gone grey and furry and absolutely stank of mould. Ugh.

I'd go on smell & taste entirely. Eat it ASAP, though, that stuff goes obviously off fairly fast.

No it usually smells great in that stinky cheese kind of way. But this...oh my goodness. It smelled so strongly of chemicals. Like nail polish remover or paint stripper. I didn't eat it in the end. Gutted because I was really looking forward to it!

Bang a new one on the shopping list then - a baked camembert is lush.

Preferably from a different shop than that one came from. It's very difficult to break a camembert, so god knows what happened!

Aah. Ammonia.
That's a problem with the cheese, not the date. Was the rind kind of detached from the cheese?

Don't Google slipskin if you're squeamish.

I don't know how it looked before it went in, dh put it in the oven. It looked normal when it came out. It was from the Co Op. They aren't very good for camembert, we've had a crap one from there before.

I live by the rules of, if it:

Looks alright
Smells alright
Tastes alright

Then it's probably alright.