White fluff on brie that is 1 month out of date.

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Would you eat it? It is Sainsbury's Basics if that makes any difference.

No.,,

If I could easily cut off the mouldy bits (fluffy bits) without spreading the mould about, I would eat it but I don't think I'd give it to others without warning them.

Not that it will do them any harm, as far as I am aware, just that it's a bit yucky to think of mouldy cheese.

Don't throw it away! You might have discovered the next penicillin....

No. I wouldn't eat it. A month past the sell by date and visibly mouldy? Do you really need to ask?

:) Well it's not mould as in green stuff.

But that's a no from you all then? :)

The white stuff is mould!

Ewwww no that's proper mould and not the stuff you get in blue cheese bung it!

Brie just does not keep. Mould on other (usually hard) cheeses, fine, just cut off & eat the rest. But Brie is nasty for going off really fast. I'd bin it and I normally eat cheese that's gone mouldy fine but not soft cheeses.

Do NOT eat mouldy soft cheese

Ok to cut mould off hard cheese, but never off soft.

The mould on a soft cheese penetrates the cheese itself so it can't just be scraped off. Hard cheese mould can't penetrate. In saying that if you ever get red or pink mould then bin it straight away.

Yes, I know the White stuff you mean. I eat it when it's like this.

Sainsburys have really odd sell-by dates on cheese. They re nowhere near ripe when they're yellow stickered.

Eat it. I would, although I would wipe the mould off. Perhaps not if you are pregnant, but being a bloke that has never been a concern of mine.

I bet it tastes utterly rank.

I'd eat it - I always thought the white fluff was just the hard white bit of the brie growing a wee bit.

lljkk, not rank, mature. Please get your terminology correct, this is cheese we are talking about, not socks.

lifehacker.com/5877588/when-you-should-and-shouldnt-eat-moldy-cheese

If you cut any mould off hard cheese it needs to be an inch off. You shouldn't eat mouldy soft cheeses at all.

Dame, your link says soft cheese like cottage cheese. It says semi soft is fine to cut the mould off. Personally I have eaten brie after cutting the fur off and survived - I am made with an iron stomach though

Definitely not. Brie has a short shelf life, as it is.

Ripe brie is soft cheese - it spreads rather than cuts.

Brie is soft cheese, therefore shouldn't be eaten if mouldy.

Sainsbury basic cheese is pasteurised and I'll have been tested for pathogens to a super safe degree. They will have then given it a stupidly short shelf life on account of ridiculous risk management. White mould is penicillium candidum, the same as the rind and will do you absolutely no harm. The rind of a soft white skinned cheese IS mould, and this is just evidence of it growing. You're fine, honest.

www.reluctantgourmet.com/moldy-brie-cheese/
www.reluctantgourmet.com/stinky-brie-cheese/

No I meant rank, as in foul awful nasty horrid. That's what I expect of over-ripe brie.

Mature is nice wrt to cheese (or even people). Rank is just rank.

Yeah , rank is a good word for it imo