"Once opened, consume within three days"......whaaat? ?

[Clawdy]

Bought a pack of Ivy's Reserve cheddar today for first time. Opened it tonight and noticed on back of pack: "Once opened, consume within three days". Cheese usually lasts a couple of weeks in fridge surely??

That is bonkers. YANBU op.

Yes, just ignore that. They're just covering their arses because once it's open they can't be sure you're not going to store it down the back of the airing cupboard etc.

It’ll be fine. They are just covering themselves.

I open mine, cut it into chunks on the day of purchase and freeze it. That way I never have issues.

Of course you are right. Kept correctly it lasts for ages. I use cheese without ever looking at the sell/use by directions. Even if it has mold growing, I just cut it off. Blue cheese is (deliberately) moldy cheese. If it tastes ok, then it's fine

How do you store it?

Hareinthebluebellls 😂😂😂

Naice cheese shop near us doesn’t have sell-by dates, it’s all cut from the wheel, they just have a sign saying if correctly stored in a fridge (ideally wrapped in wax paper) hard cheese will last a couple of weeks. Can’t remember how long soft cheese lasts (has never survived 24 hours in our house).

Glad it's not just me! Won't be buying that one again, wasn't cheap either, but looked nice! Back to Davidstow.....

It's cheese, ignore the dates.

If it looks, smells and tastes right, it will be getting eaten in this house.

Most of these estimations have nothing to do with how long a product will keep fresh and usable in the fridge. Three days' seems the most standard. That's also on my UHT milk and it keeps (open) for weeks in my fridge.

Ignore, ignore, ignore.

I buy cheese locally and it doesn't have use-by instructions. If it's either hard/dry or mouldy, then it's obviously not edible. But if it's neither of those, then it is.

Hard cheeses don't go off like soft cheeses. If there is a bit of mould round the edges just cut it off. The older is it the better the flavour IMHO!!

This. We've downloaded our brains to the Borg.

DH will eat stuff that smells if it's in date and throw stuff that doesn't when it doesn't. His mum was a frugal Scot. She's be spinning if she knew.

Why not?
that cheese doesn't go bad any quicker than any other cheese.

You do know that cheese is essentially “mould” from milk. Just chop any dry bits off.

Ridiculousness like this from food manufacturers is why food waste is so bad

Mature cheddar is matured for 12 months. It's hardly going to go off in 3 days!

My husband works with a guy.

A guy who can get you things.

The things he gets is.... cheese.

Beautiful, golden Lockerbie Cheddar. Arguably one of the tastiest cheddars in Scotland. And they're catering blocks bought direct from the factory (staff perk). Almost 4kg for a tenner.

Now we love cheese. But no, even my family of five can't handle nearly 4kg of cheese in 3 days. It takes nearer 14 days. No freezing. No faffing. Just cling film where needed.

@ThisIsWednesday <<slips your DH a tenner under the counter>>

I first noticed this warning on some brands of cheese years ago, I ignored it then and I still ignore it now. It's madness, does anyone actually comply?

3 days? I don't think so - cheese lasts ages!

On the other end of the spectrum my dad bless him once poured me a drink of fruit juice that had big lumps of mould in it. It had been open in their fridge for goodness only knows how long, but he thought that the best before date meant that it was good until that date regardless of whether it had been opened or not (it was one of those long life cartons). He was really surprised when he saw the mould and said but the carton says it lasts until x! Er, no Dad, it doesn't work like that...

So many products say this. I just use my common sense... otherwise I'd be throwing out so much food!

I'll go in with you on a block.

Yeah you can ignore that. We have a pot of yogurt that says the same - it lasts around 5 days before it's finished and we've never been sick from it

They want you to buy more, its good for buisness.

.....but definatly not good for health.

If cheese is not wrapped in cling film, but placed in an air tight container it will continue to mature in the fridge.

I always used to wrap cheese in cling film until I started making my own, and until it started growing penicillin!😁