Smelly cheese- I have the fear - please help

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I am used to eating Somerset Brie which politely sits in fridge going gently runny and bothering no one. Yesterday in Lidl I grabbed some Brie- ish cheese in a hurry which was already quite pungent by the time I got it home. I put it in a sealed container in the fridge and over night it has apparently turned into ‘death of horse’. Members of the family innocently opening the fridge looking for things other than death of horse, back away looking startled, then puzzled, then leave the room. I have been eyeing it through the Tupperware but given how bad it smells with the lid on, I keep chickening out of opening it. I know the best way to get rid of the smell is to eat it but I now have the fear. Please help me with your top smelly cheese recipes - preferably ones that don’t involve much time with the cheese naked in the room as I may have to move out.

Is it de meaux? That can get a right honk on.

Best way is to (quickly) slice a third of it, stir the rest into 2 portions of mash with some salt, butter and pepper. Stick the sliced brie on top and bake in a hot oven until it’s all bubbly and yum. Serve with steak, or roasted veggies or just have it on its own. So good!

Ooh I'd eat it as is on some crackers, but if pushed I'd bake it like a Camembert with some rosemary and just dunk crusty bread into it. Enjoy your stinky cheese!

Bacon and Brie baguette for me! No Brie is too stinky but I do like my cheese to be running off the plate where possible 😂

@TheChosenTwo
This is not so much stinky as a glimpse into the seventh circle of hell,- if what they did in hell was very very bad smells.

I'm quite liking the bung it in the oven option but mostly because that essentially puts it in another container.

I’ve just eyeballed it again. It looks smug.

I've deliberately bought cheese that was so smelly I was banished to the garden with it.

I was unrepentant, it was delicious, so no advice from me sorry!

@Amiable don’t apologise, garden eating may well be the most sensible solution. Possibly we could just banish the cheese on its own and see what the wildlife make of it.

I put oven containment option to the family. DD1 is having no bar of it and DD2 is refreshingly game. As the earliest this will happen now is tomorrow- I fully expect the cheese will have its own opinion by then.

I sometimes put the smelliest cheese in an airtight container inside another airtight container.

@Jellybean23 Yes that may be where we are headed- a Russian doll of Tupperware with a terrible surprise in the centre.

Sadly this is not even the worst smell I’ve had to deal with this week. The other smell would involve a thread of its own entitled ‘what happens to 5kg of chicken pellets if you accidentally leave them in plastic box in the garden which leaks so they have been sitting in water for nearly 2 years’. I decided to spread the fetid paste on a flower bed and covered it with horse manure because the horse manure smell was a blessed relief.

Which thinking about it is a plan B for the cheese.

Once we stayed in a cottage in Normandy in the depths of winter with a beautiful big open fire. The fire had nooks and crannies around it in the brickwork and one evening I stuck a disappointingly unripe Camembert in one of the holes. When we woke up in the morning it had ripened significantly and I fully understand the ‘death of horse’ smell to which you refer.
It was delicious baked with some garlic and white wine and demolished with crusty bread.

It's mad how most don't taste like they smell though isn't it? The stinkiest cheese often tastes absolutely gorgeous once you've got over the smell upon opening the fridge! As a self confessed cheese fiend, I feel shame at being able to eat any cheese as long as it's not blue, I don't care about the smell, I just can't get on with the strange metallic taste of a blue. Relish in the stinky cheese, get it on a raclette, bake it, melt it into pasta, stick it in a sauce, or just whack it on crusty bread and inhale the glorious aroma. God I'm hungry 😂

@TheMousePipes
That made me laugh.
And gives me hope that ( sensibly fortified by wine) I can successfully o eat death of horse tomorrow , possibly with help of DD2 .

DH has both anosmia and lactose intolerance so he is both safe and no use to me.

Get some Sauternes. I’m yet to meet a cheese that doesn’t taste better with it.

My DH hates cheese so sometimes I put warning notes in the fridge 'Do Not Open - Cheese'. I don't want him passing out on the kitchen floor and making a mess.

@Jellybean23
All cheese?? That’s very sweet that you warn him. Think of the fun you could have winding him up with cunningly hidden Baby Bels.

My DH misses cheese. It seems cruel to involve him in any cheese related skirmishes, but he may be the only person in the house capable of doing the fridge to oven manoeuvre without throwing himself out the window in nasal self defence.

It’s done.
My nieces were over for lunch and they have lived in France so are unusually brave around cheese. As suggested we bunged it in the oven and ate the pool of cheese with crusty bread. It was ….. amazing. It was like the taste and smell separated so the smell hung over the table as we ate but the taste was smooth and luscious. I’m not sure I can go through that again so it may be the last time I have it!

Name that cheese! We need to know!

I'd also recommend a good room temperature Epoisses.

OP beware of Maroilles from the Nord/pas de Calais region. Also poivre d'âne, it's wonderful - mashed up with tarragon, shaped into a pear, and dusted with paprika. Gets quite evil before it's finished.