Mouldy marmalade

[Ekphrasis]

Please settle an ongoing domestic argument regarding Jam and marmalade.

If there's a couple of patches of green mould on the top do you:

A) spoon them off and carry on as usual.

B) exclaim loudly and throw the whole lot out even when a mostly full jar.

Scrape off the mould and eat the rest.

Spoon out the manky bits. Enjoy marmalade.

I very rarely chuck anything, but mould you can see can have spores you can't. I'd chuck it without exclaiming loudly.

Definitely A, why waste a perfectly good jar of marmalade?

C) throw it out because it must have existed for a hundred years if it grew mould.

Keep it in the fridge!

That's the thing though plate; not that old and been kept in the fridge. Not sure why it's mouldy; never had mouldy marmalade. Jams all the time for some reason.

I´d scrape it off plus a bit more, and then eat it.

A but I eat anything

(Oh dear, don't bf, mn and eat marmalade on toast together. Baby has (non mouldy) marmalade in his hair.)

I do A, take quite a bit out. Dh does B. Loudly.

Scrape off & eat. My nieces boyfriend is a chef & says it won't harm you.

Throw it away. Jam and marmalade are porous so mould spores aren't just in the the bits you can see on the top. It will have spread through the marmalade.

Toss it. If you can see mold it means the mold is rooted down a lot further than you can see so scraping off a mouldy bit doesn't even get rid of it. Jam is what, £2 a jar? Not worth getting sick.

Jam definitely goes mouldy if you've left bits of butter in there from the knife. Possibly marmalade as well? I chuck it if this happens.

Back in the day, when making your own marmalade was commonplace, this happened quite a lot when opening a full jar that had just been made. Many a gran scraped off the mould and told nobody.

I guess that's the issue though; is it bad for you?!

We eat mouldy cheese happily...

If it's more than a couple of mm thick chuck otherwise spoon it off and eat it. Possibly avoid giving it to small children or if you are ill.

I'd throw it out.

Mouldy jams are one of those things you really are meant to completely chuck out but there’s no way I would, unless it was horrendous.

Jam/marmalade mould is from dipping the butter knife into the jar. It’s the butter that goes mouldy not the jam/marmalade.

I wonder if after scraping off the top, you could re-boil the rest to kill the spores?