to cut the mould off of the cheese then eat the non mouldy bits...

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In my defence it was 8pm at night no local shops were open and I REALLY needed to eat cheesy pasta bake after work it's all I fancied! (I didn't feed it to anyone just myself) DP said it was vile to so such a thing so go ahead am I?

It's the sort of thing I do regularly .

Nope, I do it all the time.

I don't think it's any different to all the blue cheeses you can buy anyway.

My Home Ec teacher at school did this ALL THE TIME. It was orange cheddar, and she made us make pizza with it on a base made from scone dough.

Yanbu - can't be wasting the chedda!

There are some foods you can do this with and some you can't. Personally I won't throw out cheese.

Don't see a problem with that at all. But then, I like eating mouldy smelly cheese.

of course. why would you not? you mean you don't do this normally?

I do it with bread.

Yanbu. At all. How was the cheesy pasta?

Cheese never lasts long enough to go moudly round here.

Why would you not? People don't seriously throw away whole blocks of cheese just because the edges are mouldy, do they ?

YANBU I used to work in a cheese shop, and we did this all the time! The mould enters from the outside of the cheese, so by cutting it to expose the unmouldy bits, you're getting rid of all the bad parts! I am obsessive about use-by dates, but cheese is the one area where I am quite happy to just chop off the ick and carry on regardless.

YANBU! Cheese is just one great hunk of mould anyway

The mould spores penetrate far beyond what is actually visible to the naked eye. Once seen under a microscope I wouldn't knowingly eat it now!

It was amazing! I've always done it and just not told DP but hes the sort of person who sticks to the use by date of everything!

YANBU: I have also been known to scrape the mould off the top of jam if it otherwise smells good and unfermented!

PurpleRayne? I thought that didn't happen with cheese. Other food, yes. Especially bread, if there's any sign of mould the lot should be thrown. But I'm sure I read that it's fine to cut the mould off cheese and eat it anyway.

to be fair PurpleRayne I can't imagine I'd want to eat most of the non-heated things I eat if I looked at them under a microscope!

I've done it lots of times. I like to think of it as the cheese trying to stiltonise itself. Imagine if you tried to cut the mould out of stilton!

"According to the Mayo Clinic, some moldy cheeses are safe to eat after the mold has been sliced off, while others are toxic.

Hard and semisoft cheese, such as parmesan, Swiss, romano and cheddar, you can cut away the moldy part and eat the rest of the cheese. Cut off at least 1-inch around and below the moldy spot.

With soft cheeses, such as brie, chevre (goat cheese), blue cheese, and ricotta, the mold that grows on these cheeses cannot be safely removed so they should be discarded. One reason is that the molds can more easily penetrate into the heart of soft cheeses than they can into harder cheeses. This causes spoilage from within that cannot be scraped away. The same goes for any cheese that has been shredded, crumbled or sliced. If mold is found on soft cheese (i.e. cottage cheese, cream cheese) the entire package should be discarded. Mold on soft cheeses are toxic."

There you go...

Yabu that's disgusting.

You have cheese that lasts long enough to go mouldy?

It never occurred to me that you should throw all the cheese away! Just cut off the mouldy bits.

I cut my cheese into small blocks and freeze it..never have mouldy cheese.

I avoid eating any food with mould on it,surely if there is visible mould then there will be invisible mould in other parts of the item (?)
I've always been under the impression that mycotoxins are rather harmful

If the cheese smells ok I'll do it, once it starts smelling iff I'll just chuck it. Don't like smelly cheese.