To cut off the mouldy end of the cheese and use the rest of it?

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One end of a block of cheese is going mouldy. It's in date but I guess it just happens sometimes. I just cut the mouldy end off and use the other end which is perfectly fine. I don't see this as in issue, but dp says it is disgusting and I should have thrown the whole thing out.

He refused the lovey lunch I made of jacket potatoes, tuna and cheese.

I would do this. Doesn't everyone?

YADNBU

I always do this. I have no idea if it is Out of Date as I usually buy a huge block and divide into pieces (chucking the original packet). We go through a lot so it's not like it'll be in the fridge for ages anyway.

YABU to tell dh though. Doh! Just serve it in future and he need never know.

YANBU - surely that is normal?

YANBU.

But the thought of tuna and cheese together has made my stomach turn!

Yeah I do this as well. And I know you're not really supposed to because of spores still being in the 'good' bit but.... nope, don't really care. I ain't throwing away cheese.

Actually ours never gets chance to go properly mouldy, just hard.

Noel, it won't go hard in a bit of clingfilm, only if it's in contact with air and dries out.

Phephenson, you have never a tuna melt? Lovely.

Thanks :)

merry it was actually do who discovered the mouldy disgusting cheese that will poison us. I asked him to take it out of the fridge for me so I could grate it. Big mistake

pheph ooh I love melted cheese with tuna. My favourite thing to have it on is a subway sandwich yum yum.

He won't eat his baked potato [shocked] how oh how will I manage to eat two??

Tell him you're growing your own Stilton.

YANBU.

Your DH is though!

Phephen, yabu. Tuna and cheese were meant to be together. As for cutting off mould, it's totally fine. Is your DH a bit of germphobic?

Of course the cheese is alright, yanbu. It's just probably the way you have stored it, or a bit of moisture, it isn't OFF. Your DH is being VU!

Mould can penetrate the rest of the cheese / item. The bit you see as mouldy may only be a small part of it, so yes, I always chuck.

not all mould is equally nasty of course. Some is beneficial, some is harmless and some can pump out toxins so powerful your liver will be fried to a crisp.

I'm quite relaxed about sell by dates on some stuff - if milk or yoghurt passes the sniff test, we are fine, but mould is a no no for me.

Disclosure - I'm a scientist, so probably a little paranoid regarding myco toxins :)

Just to be more detailed ... Soft cheese with mould, or grated cheese should be chucked immediately. If there's one spot of mould, the whole cheese is affected. Mould finds it harder to send its little thread like extensions through the harder cheeses, so some say you're ok doing a mould-ectomy as long as you cut an inch or two off.

But... I'd still be wary. You don't know if your knife is inoculating the Virgin ecposed surface with mould, and mould can encourage the growth of other bacteria like listeria.

I'm probably over wary, but mould equals a trip to the bin chez Dr. Skip.

Yanbu I do this all the time.

I do know that supermarkets often cut the mouldy edges from cheese on the cheese counter. I can't remember if it was on here a former employee of a supermarket was explaining this practise.

Er, no!
Do this all the time but have one friend who is horrified by it - she's odd, in my opinion!

I thought this was standard too! YANBU.

I also do this. In fact with some cheeses I don't think they develop their full flavour until they have a bit of mould fully matured.

I wouldn't do this with Brie or soft cheese, if it goes mouldy it goes furry. As for Cheddar absolutely no problem at all, always have done it and my DCs have survived!

You really should chuck it. It's to do with unseen filaments or the tides or something. I don't know whether it will kill you but it just tastes like mould/damp.

I don't like strange white bits on my cheddar either.

Mycobiologists - what is the orangey-red mould that affects things like yoghurt and creme fraiche?

I don't eat that either but I wonder what it is.

I used to do this with the cheddar/brie/all cheese that we used to sell at the supermarket deli I used to work in as a student (20 years ago). The cheese was in date. We also did it with the pakora etc.

This is why I never buy from deli counters...................

If I have mouldy cheese at home I cut the end off and give to dh (along with the out of date scampi on the other thread - not at the same time!), because as soon as I see the mould, I know its okay, but it puts me off eating it.

The only 'U' bit about it is mixing tuna and cheese.
It's either tuna and mayo or cheese (or cheese and beans) on a jacket potato

However, of course YANBU about the cheese. Your dh is a wastral!

It's totally OK to cut the mouldy bits off. It's penicillin and will kill any bugs