To talk about cheese?

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I have just discovered today that block cheese has a 7 day use by date once opened. We usually have cheese open for a couple of weeks!!
Does anyone adhere to the use by date?

No, most of mine get better the longer they are open! Maybe for some fresh cheeses I would use within a week.

Doesn't last 7 days in our household.

However having g worked in a cheese shop I go by taste look and smell

Mine don't last that long. I don't bother with the dates though I just go by eye.

Something creamy or milky I'd use within that timeframe. Other cheeses have been aged in caves for years so I dont see how a few weeks in the fridge would hurt. Depends on the cheese surely

Hard cheese - large lumps of extra mature cheddar - last for a couple of weeks with us. Soft / smelly cheeses - no more than a week, for me.

Hard cheese? No way it needs to be eaten in 7 days.
Sometimes I wonder if all these food manufacturers just want you to throw away for food and buy more?

Throw away good food

No, we don’t abide by it unless it’s a soft cheese like Brie.

Having said that we have had hard cheese start to grow mould so I bin it when that happens. My DF used to just slice the mould off but I’ve never risked it. Probably silly though when I’m happy to eat blue cheese.

No just regular block of cheddar. Tbf we have rarely finished it in a week and we are all still alive . Just worried because it's use by not best before.

I'm really funny about dates I keep an eye on all the mustard, horseradish etc as they only have a few weeks usually.

Never! X

Nah, cheese is fine for weeks as long as you store it caerphilly.

That's a long way to go for some ...

Same with mayonnaise - isn't it supposed to be consumed within a couple of weeks of opening? We keep it in the fridge and still consume it later than that. No sense in risking being ill but the dates on foodstuffs are very restrictive - so much waste.

You can brie too careful. Cheddar is usually a couple of weeks here.

@lunar my favourite

Any cheese approaching dodgy just grate and freeze and use in cooking, it’s too good and expensive to throw away

Same rules here, although I'm basing it on having worked in a shoe shop.

I ignore the use by date. Is there mould, and does it smell bad?
I cut the mouldy bits off.
Grated cheese is awful for going manky even before the use by.

Other than meat I don't tend to go by dates anyway. God gave us senses for a reason and they've not failed me yet!

Nah soft runny cheeses I would be careful with but hard cheeses are fair game. I grew up in a house where we cut mould off cheese so I'm a Hardy sort

Hard cheese can last three weeks in this house

I usually trim off any blue furry bits that grow on my supermarket cheddar and carry on eating it. Nobody has died yet in the Parsons household.

When i was a kid some science class teacher had us look at cheese under a microscope, so i learned a valuable lesson at a tender age that i will share with you all now. If a hard cheese has a mould spot, that mould has tendrils growing through the cheese block.

hard cheese can be kept for long after 'best before'. ime it often gets tastier to older/dryer it gets.

soft cheese - wouldn't risk it.

Nah I just check it’s not gone yukky! If it’s just gone a bit hard in places I cut those bits off

I’ve used (opened) mustard a months out of date!! I can’t see what’s in it that would make it go off?