To be panicking about cheese

[Jjmcbeal]

Up late after a late shift and was starving and made myself a lovely toastie with some very old fresh mozarella. It looked, smelt and tasted fine, was unopened, but it was the very fresh kind in water and has been in the fridge and out of date for weeks! Maybe even close to a month! I didn't think and now I'm panicking about food poisoning 😪what are my chances

If it looked, smelt and tasted fine then it was probably fine. Especially as unopened.

Was it next to the lobster?

You cooked it in a toastie, as long as there wasn’t mould on it or it was disintegrating you probably heated it enough to kill any nasties.

Pasteurised, wrapped in plastic, refrigerated with no evidence of spoiling and then cooked? It will with almost perfect certainty be fine. And on the tiny tiny offchance it isn’t, it won’t kill you. Upset stomach at the worst.

A month?! Horrors!

Seriously, you'll be fine. I'm a 60s child and I go by my nose. It hasn't failed me yet.

My 20-something offspring are horrified at what I'll eat, but my immune system copes just fine with technically out of date food.

If it’s not green, mouldy or stinky, it’s fine

Mozerella I'm liquid stinks, and the packet usually swells up if it's gone off. You will live, don't worry

I think your chances are slim OP! 😉 you'll be fine!!

I ate really off mozzarella once, it had gone so bad it was fizzy on the tongue, I think you would've known if it was off.
The fizzy mozzarella didn't make me ill btw

The dates on balls of mozzarella are nonsense.
If it looked , smelt, and tasted fine, I'm sure you'll be fine.

This.

Thanks everyone. I'm alive and stomach seems ok.

To the poster who asked if it was next to the lobster, it costs 69p from Sainsburys 🤔

I know, right? There's always one.

I think they were referring to a thread yesterday about someone eating lobster they'd had in their fridge for a week and were panicking they were going to die too.

I am glad that you feel fine, OP!
Always scary when you think you have eaten something that might be bad.

I think the post about the lobster was referring to the post the other day in which someone was worried about having eaten a week old cooked lobster.

@hummmmm You were faster than me!

🤣 or the Chicken tikka pieces?

Honestly.

You'll be fine. When mozzarella goes off the bag blows up like a balloon and it smells like 🤮. No one would eat it by mistake.

Agree with PP's that off mozzarella stinks

And it can go an amazing colour green (got binned!!)

Cheese lasts for bloody ages. It's fine.

It's cheese!Unless it's growing mould (and it is the kind that should not have mould) then it will be fine!

cheese lasts more than a month after use by
same with yogurts
If it smelt and tasted fine then it is OK. you would know if it had gone off

This reminded me of the time my frail, elderly DM told me she'd had eggs for lunch. I asked her where the eggs were from and she said that my DB had brought them for her when he visited - 2 months earlier!! She was absolutely fine.
So much food is wasted due to use by dates.

With hard cheeses you can cut off the mould and the rest of the cheese will be fine. These cheeses get matured in caves for yonks.