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It looked, smelt and tasted fine, was unopened, but it was the very fresh kind in water and has been in the fridge and out of date for weeks!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

Was the lobster poster okay? I forgot to watch the thread 😂

The bag swells up when it's off. Don't worry

Sorry!

@ohmydiddlydays
I think that poster was okay!

Here is the thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4993258-to-think-im-about-to-get-very-sick?postsby=ohnowhatdidido

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No one can keep track of every thread on Mumsnet!

I hope you are still feeling fine, OP.

TwoShades1 · Today 03:42

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

Totally!

Genuinely thought the placement was going to make matters worse 🤣went over my head.

Glad you are ok OP. Please get the lobster next time.

Ah I see re: lobster. I genuinely thought it was a weird thing to say as mozarella cheese isn't exactly a luxury item at 69p

I agree most cheese I wouldn't even consider worrying but apparently mozarella because its a fresh cheese can be a bit more iffy for salmonella

It was fine though!

Providing you’re still feeling okay now (hopefully you are!) and given that you heated the mozzarella in the toastie and it generally smelled/tasted okay, I think you’ll be okay.

If it helps at all to reassure you, I bought some burrata cheese a couple of months ago and was saving it to eat it (as it’s the food of the gods). Anyway, I was nosying around in the fridge one day and fancied eating it, and spotted that it was a month out of date. I didn’t cook it or warm it up when I ate it - just had it spread on some toast with some sun dried tomatoes and some pesto. It was delicious though, didn’t make me unwell and I lived to tell the tale.

I’m not a doctor though, so please do take this with a pinch of salt!

Soft set cheeses are not always that obvious when they've turned but mozzarella IME goes wonky very quickly once it starts to go and the state of the packet and the sight and smell of it are normally enough to go on

Like many previous posters have written, usually when food looks and smells fine it is fine.
Do not do what my friend did - he ate bad meat, and got sick, vomited a whole morning. He later said that the meat had smelled bad, but he did not want to waste it...