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

[YummyDollie]

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?

Cheesy pasta bake with a hint if penicillin. Mmmmm, yummy ;)

My DH is French and eats tonnes of mouldy cheese (not the soft stuff though) - he's one of the most healthy people I know. Here everybody just cuts off the mould.

I used to do it and sell the cheese when I worked in the deli in Presto in the '80s. Have Never bought deli food since.

I hope it's ok, I just made DD2 a toasted cheese sarnie with cheese I had cut the mould off.

I suppose I have never quite shaken off student living habits

I don't do it, mold grows in a cone shape, so you see the big part on the outside and it penetrates deeper than you can see, it's asking for upset tummies.

Well I have been eating trimmed-of-mould cheese for 40+ years with no ill effects

We'll it didn't kill nor poison me im still here alive and well 27 hours later hadn't thought to freeze cheese great tip!

Well it didn't kill nor poison me im still here alive and well 27 hours later hadn't thought to freeze cheese great tip!

It is alright to cut the mould of hard cheese because the mould doesn't penetrate that far into the cheese.

I wouldn't do it with most other food though as it usually penetrates far deeper than the visible bit. Some moulds produce carcinogens so don't assume that because you are alive 72 hours later it did no harm!

I not only scrape mould off cheese but also from jam, yogurt, cream, creme fraiche with no absolutely no consequences whatsoever.

I pay no attention to sell by/ use by dates as long as it looks ok and smells ok, it's fine.

Do it all the time

I always do this with cheese, and I never get ill, can't remember the last time I had a bad stomach, in general if it smells and looks ok it's fine by me

When you buy cheese in blocks, the chances are the big block it came from was covered in mold and sliced off before packaging your piece. All that about mould penetrating deeper is crap! I used to work in a cheese packing plant!

I do it. Some supermarket cheese gets mould in deep spots so I sort if gouge out these too. Just seems to be Aldi cheese that's bad for this.

I also love blue cheese. Mmmmm

I was taught what PurpleRayne said. I tend to cut off the mouldy bits too. Whatever you do just don't look at it with a microscope before eating it.

Doesn't cheese taste better with a bit of blue mould on?

YANBU. I do this regularly. I also pick the mouldy bits of bread if there are just a few dots of it. Hasn't done me any harm either.

It's normal to cut mould off cheese. It's like taking eyes out of potatoes; fine so long as what remains looks and smells good.

As long as it smells and tastes okay, then do it. I find Wensleydale starts to taste funny once mould has started to appear, so that gets chucked.

YANBU. But my DH does this too, so we are grots together!

YANBU. Stilton is basically just mouldy cheese and people eat that!

I used to do this until one day I happened to do it in front of a very senior police pathologist friend. He gave me a very stern telling off and said you can have no idea whether it is poisonous mould or harmless mould. That was jam, mind you, so I would go with Mayo clinic (above) on hard cheese and probably still risk it. I don't think people saying they did it and were fine is something to rely on. The ones who ate the nonmouldy parts and then dropped dead are not here to report

Always do this with cheese!