But cutting around the mold on cheese is fine, right? Right???
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Hard cheeses, yes, if you cut well around it. Soft cheeses, not so much. This, of course, only applies to mold that the cheese grew after you bought it, and not any from its curing. How do you tell the difference? Devilish rhinoceros.
How do you tell the difference?
From experience. I once ate a big bite of Roquefort with the wrong mold....
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Just eat American cheese. That doesn’t mold cause it’s plastic.
American Cheese is a processed mix of cheeses like Colby and Cheddar, and is great.
Kraft American "Cheese Product" is the square sliced "plastic" one people think of.
I didn’t realize. I was definitely thinking of the cheese product. I would make my kids incredible grilled cheese sandwiches with shredded cheese where it falls off the edge and crisps up on the grill. My kids told me they just wanted kraft cheese slices.
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Oh, I've been cutting the visible mold off for years. Same applies to things like jam (jelly). Spoon out the mouldy bit, then crack on.
Should I be ded?
The rule is that if its soft food as bread or jelly, its all compromised and should be thrown. If its hard like cheese, you can cut the mold and consume since the mold probably didn't get that far inside
I eat moldy cheese all the time!
But I imagine bleu cheese mold doesn't have the toxins these other types do.
If there is visible mold on a part of a surface, then it's reasonable to assume that a much larger part of that surface already has mold, it's just not visible yet. Bread is basically a sponge, the surface of a sponge is the entire sponge, so that mold can have spread everywhere in the bread.
I found this overview which looks right to me: https://www.eatingwell.com/article/91553/4-moldy-foods-you-can-eat-plus-which-foods-to-toss/
Should you be dead from eating mold? I suspect that it's a lottery with many factors: which types of molds that you have eaten, the quantities, your immune system, ... But keep at it and eventually you might win a price.
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at this point you are probably more fungus than human
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That's life living with a human garbage disposal. They will eat anything. They'll acknowledge the five second rule only in so much as it's their inside joke when they eat a chunk of cake that fell on the floor at least 20 minutes earlier and miraculously escaped the canine detection system. It's bizarre having to justify throwing away 30 cents worth of cookies that were molded because "I would have still eaten them just not the moldy parts." but that and similar conversations are being had regularly.
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If you can see mold on part of bread that's wrapped up, that means there's probably microscopic growth that's already spread past the part you see to other sections. Cutting the big part won't help you. The whole thing needs to go, it's contaminated.
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Penicillin is one of many types of bread mould.
I too will probably die from bread mould poisoning given my stingy habits with food waste. It’s fine if it’s only the white/blue type, right?
I used to be the same way, following the same thought process. Just cutting off the visible mold and a small area around it. I stopped after I got food poisoning from a restaurant and had to eat hospital food for a week. Then I started up again immediately after getting back home to my moldy food. Still no repercussions, that I can tell
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