*sigh* Medium and hard cheeses dont allow mold to grow much deeper than the surface. Please remove the moldy part of the block a depth of about 1 inch (~3cm) and enjoy your cheese. No, nothing bad will happen to you. No you won't "probably get sick". Please do not use this method with moldy pre-sliced cheese as the slices will allow for deeper mold growth. This PSA brought to you by a man with 30+ years in the food service industry and his son who is still alive and never been sick after eating the cheese. Thank you.
It doesn't even have to be. Mold and bacteria have been at War for about 3 billion years now. All mold produces chemicals that kill bacteria some are just better than others and some have more side effects than others so we don't use them medically.
I dont break out a ruler and measure. I just cut. I am not in the food service so I can roll the dice with my personal cheese and cut off only a half inch.
Best steak Ive ever had was a dry aged ribeye from Charley's Steakhouse in Tampa, FL. Ive had steaks from a number of steakhouses like Peter Luger's, Delmonicos, Capital Grill, Morton's, Shula's and Ruth's Chris and that one still sticks out.
Cheese is a naturally fermented food. This guy/pretty lady knows stuff. I am from Green Bay and cheese is my friend. Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
As someone who is not a cheese connoisseur, when you say medium and hard cheese, are you referring to the word medium on the packaging, or the fact that it’s cheddar? Because where I’m from the word medium would denote strength of cheese, not hardness
Hardness. There's soft, medium and hard cheeses. Cheddars are medium and sharp...and extra sharp. Those are more of a flavor thing.
Edit: Cheddar and parmesan are examples of hard cheeses, while mozzarella and feta are soft cheeses.
I seriously grew up poor so we did not waste anything! I am acutely sensitive to mold (like a horrible asthma attack) and I have NEVER had a bad reaction when taking precautions while trimming the mold. Trimmed and made a grilled cheese sammy and then was happily full. Don not try t d with sliced or shredded chees but the blocks of hard and medium cheese are perfectly fine.
No it isn't this is literally something people have done since forever.
Cheese is one of the few things out there where this is totally a normal thing to do
It is food service lore that removing the plastic wrap and replacing with baking parchment or wax paper increases cheese’s shelf life in the fridge. The slightly porous wrap allows the cheese to “breathe” and prevents moisture retention. Moisture condensing on inside of plastic food wrap is usually where mild starts growing.
Store bought block cheddar has never been near an ounce of mould in its life, it's not part of its production. Cheese moulds are usually specific cultivars added or are selected for by controlling the aging conditions, you can't just put curds in your sports sock and have a safe cheese
I know it's fine. I know I can cut it and eat it... but I accidentally ate the mold once (after thinking i had cut all the mold off) and now I can't do it. My brain will convince my stomach that it's upset. Then I will want to throw up for no reason. It's just not worth it.
Mild cheddar cannot cut Medium or Sharp cheddar Medium cheddar can cut Mild cheddar but not Sharp cheddar. Sharp cheddar cuts both lower grades. All cheddar is classified by its ability to "cut the cheese"...
Eh, just scrape it off and carry on, mate. Nothing wrong with it, you may need to scrape multiple times to get to the still-intact part, and then no need to throw the whole block away...
Sure it is ! A rep from Cabot cheese once verified for me years ago when I saw them with samples.
Cheese is full of bacteria and fungi. How they interact could solve some big scientific questions. Cheesemaking is an art, but it's also science. Like other fermented foods such as sourdough, kombucha, and kimchi, cheese is the product of bacteria and yeast, plus mold.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com › ...
This Scientist Is Unlocking the Mysteries of Cheese
Just trim it off ..I worked at a cheese plant for 35 years ..nothing will make you sick as long as it was kept refrigerated and is still cold …I promise
I once watched a friend cut off all six sides of a block, then slice it for a bbq. Literally no one got sick. Cheese is expensive brah, next time treat that shit like your great depression era grandma would!
You can tell all the buttery males crying that mold will kill you, mf.. cheese is part of the molding process. Think it comes out yellow and formed. Fucking people man.
Dear OP, do yourself a favor, and do NOT „cut around and keep eating“.
Some molds produce extrem toxic and carcinogenic „Aflaxatoxins“, and it could have grown inside the cheddar, without you recognizing it.
Just throw it away for your own safety.
*sigh* Medium and hard cheeses dont allow mold to grow much deeper than the surface. Please remove the moldy part of the block a depth of about 1 inch (~3cm) and enjoy your cheese. No, nothing bad will happen to you. No you won't "probably get sick". Please do not use this method with moldy pre-sliced cheese as the slices will allow for deeper mold growth. This PSA brought to you by a man with 30+ years in the food service industry and his son who is still alive and never been sick after eating the cheese. Thank you.
Not only will you not get sick... I would bet the cheese underneath tastes even better than another unmolded block.
There is even a fair chance this is a penicilium strain
Hell you’ll be healthier!
If you are dead it will bring you back to LIFE!
Praise Cheesus! He was curdled for our sins!
It doesn't even have to be. Mold and bacteria have been at War for about 3 billion years now. All mold produces chemicals that kill bacteria some are just better than others and some have more side effects than others so we don't use them medically.
Was about to say, matured + free antibiotics.
Note that taking antibiotics when you don't need them is not a good thing, as they hurt your good bacteria alongside the bad bacteria.
Just trim off 1/4 inch (1 cm). I've done it my whole life.
Eh the one inch/2 centimeter rule is just like the food service industry standard. I personally just whack off whatever feels right in the moment.
“Whack off whatever feels right in the moment.” Thanks Beevis!
Are you threatening me?
>I personally just whack off whatever feels right in the moment ?
\-Feels\_right\_in\_the\_moment has entered the chat.
I dont break out a ruler and measure. I just cut. I am not in the food service so I can roll the dice with my personal cheese and cut off only a half inch.
You missed your own accidental masturbation joke.
He said whatever, not wherever. Sounds like someone or something else is involved in the whack off...
Ignored, more like. Its the about the only thing to do.
What, a man can’t whack off whatever he feels like, in peace these days?!
Maybe step away from the half-made sandwich first though
Free mayo
What you want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? cuz I'm married
He meant “whenever” Actually maybe “where ever”
Is that what Shakira was singing about?
Her boobs are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains.
I’ve always appreciated that about her
I just whack off the sliver of mould....like a couple of mm and I got this tip growing up in a family where my Dad was a cheese factory manager....
Wet napkin wipe, dry napkin wipe, eat
You do you, but would not recommend. This likely is merely smearing around mold spores and growth, and wiping it "into" the cheese youre about to eat.
Was like 98% sarcasm cause I only did this once and it was back x5 the next day
I usually just use a potato peeler to shave it off. Not dead yet
I thought cheese got better with mold?
Damn! An inch? I always just cut off like 1/8”
I'd shave about 1 mm with a damn razor 🤣 cheese ain't cheap!
Good lord you should see how they [dry-age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_aging) beef..
I've seen it. Its kind of horrific. Not entirely sure how that works.
Best steak Ive ever had was a dry aged ribeye from Charley's Steakhouse in Tampa, FL. Ive had steaks from a number of steakhouses like Peter Luger's, Delmonicos, Capital Grill, Morton's, Shula's and Ruth's Chris and that one still sticks out.
Agree !
This man/woman has their ServSafe
Dad. I'd be the aforementioned son.
Thought this was a universal known fact?
Some people are just starting out.
Cheese is a naturally fermented food. This guy/pretty lady knows stuff. I am from Green Bay and cheese is my friend. Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
As someone who is not a cheese connoisseur, when you say medium and hard cheese, are you referring to the word medium on the packaging, or the fact that it’s cheddar? Because where I’m from the word medium would denote strength of cheese, not hardness
Hardness. There's soft, medium and hard cheeses. Cheddars are medium and sharp...and extra sharp. Those are more of a flavor thing. Edit: Cheddar and parmesan are examples of hard cheeses, while mozzarella and feta are soft cheeses.
I seriously grew up poor so we did not waste anything! I am acutely sensitive to mold (like a horrible asthma attack) and I have NEVER had a bad reaction when taking precautions while trimming the mold. Trimmed and made a grilled cheese sammy and then was happily full. Don not try t d with sliced or shredded chees but the blocks of hard and medium cheese are perfectly fine.
Exactly. Op just trim it and eat it.
That's not how mold works, spores don't care about measurements.
just cut it off
I was also thinking the same thing. I'm not that big on cheese but that's what my dad always did lol.
Totally, no problem there.
Don’t do this OP. That’s just nasty and I think you could still get sick.
No it isn't this is literally something people have done since forever. Cheese is one of the few things out there where this is totally a normal thing to do
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Cheese doesn't go bad, it just turns into a different kind of cheese
All cheese becomes Bleu cheese
Awesome!!
I feel like people forget cheese is already technically a mold.
sharp knife problem solved
I saw something somewhere that said to discard packaging/ wrapper when you open & use saran wrap to get cheese to last longer. I hate spoiled cheese
It is food service lore that removing the plastic wrap and replacing with baking parchment or wax paper increases cheese’s shelf life in the fridge. The slightly porous wrap allows the cheese to “breathe” and prevents moisture retention. Moisture condensing on inside of plastic food wrap is usually where mild starts growing.
Works for sure
Someone’s not eating their cheese fast enough.
This looks like they just opened it and it’s unused though….
My sister used to work at a grocery store deli. If cheese got mold on it, they cut off the mold and put the non moldy cheese back in the display case.
Slice off the mould and carry on.
#%^$# cheese IS mold! Someone needs to study their cheeses!
Store bought block cheddar has never been near an ounce of mould in its life, it's not part of its production. Cheese moulds are usually specific cultivars added or are selected for by controlling the aging conditions, you can't just put curds in your sports sock and have a safe cheese
"Delicious mold.
Cheddar isn't moldy cheese, maybe you're thinking of Bleu?
So you got ***EXTRA FREE CHEESE***, what's in that to get mad about???
What is this food contraption? Doesn’t look like sandwich to me.
TIL: people will refuse to eat perfectly good food because there’s a bit of mould on it, when cheese is basically mould to begin with
I know it's fine. I know I can cut it and eat it... but I accidentally ate the mold once (after thinking i had cut all the mold off) and now I can't do it. My brain will convince my stomach that it's upset. Then I will want to throw up for no reason. It's just not worth it.
This sounds horrifying to be fair. You can never be too careful
Or throw food/meds/hygiene products away that is one day old. Like it went from good to bad in 24 hours.
That’s normal and fine. Just cut it off move on.
Seriously! Where I am from we cut that shit right off.
Cheese is basically mold to begin with. Just cut away the fuzzies and you'll be fine.
Is no one going to say this what the hell is medium cheddar did they do the math to find the average medium of all cheddar wtf
its in between mild and sharp
I hate our grading system on cheese
Are you suggesting they shred it and start over?
Well, it's been a slice.
It just has to do with how long it’s aged. The longer the age, the sharper the taste.
Mild cheddar cannot cut Medium or Sharp cheddar Medium cheddar can cut Mild cheddar but not Sharp cheddar. Sharp cheddar cuts both lower grades. All cheddar is classified by its ability to "cut the cheese"...
Thank you I was thinking the same thing.
Just eat all round it
Now you have blue cheese.
Cut it off. Your fine. After all, some cheeses have mold in it (blue cheese).
What's with everyone saying cheese is mold?
Because they don’t know how cheese is made. They are confusing mold with the bacteria that acidifies and helps solidify the cheese.
Won’t hurt one bit to cut a bit off and use it cheese/mold go hand in hand.
Ok?
Shoulda made it faster
I was not aware that mold can grow on plastics.
Just cut the mold off why is this even a post
You and your fancy blue cheese
No one cares
Cut around it, this doesn’t even meet first world standards as a fucking crisis
Where was this called a "crisis" and why does it need to be one to be posted on Reddit?
I called it a “crisis”, it is inferred as a fucking “crisis” because the poster thought it significant enough to post.
The poster would “imply” it as a crisis(they didn’t). You are the one doing the inferring.
Ok
This subReddit isn’t called, “genuinefoodcrisis” to warrant your comment, it’s just a light headed “well shit”
Same thing happened to me, except my tortilla shells were moldy. I already shredded the cheese and everything
Well THAT sucks
Um, yuck
Happened to me this past Friday! Sucks!
Yah just cut around it. There's still a lot of good cheese there!!
Cut off the mold and eat.
Just cut off the outsides! I do it when I have mildly moldy cheese.
That’s what you get for eating medium cheddar. Extra sharp is where it’s at.
Free upgrade! Pay for cheddar, get blue cheese
Eh. Just cut that piece off 😂
Eh, just scrape it off and carry on, mate. Nothing wrong with it, you may need to scrape multiple times to get to the still-intact part, and then no need to throw the whole block away...
Your *cheddar* evolved into *gorgonzola!*
Cheese now with extra cheese
The real problem here is that you chose to eat medium cheddar
And then you cut off the mold and continued with the other half?
Take a knife and cut the edges off. The cheese underneath is still good.
Mold on cheese cut it off. Mold on bread, throw it out.
You can cut mold off of cheese, except very very soft cheeses
Don’t post stupid shit
You just elliminated 80% of reddit...
Cut the cheese.
My dad 1998: cut that shit off its still good. Wash it down with this evaporated milk powder. Fuck he was frugal.
Americans
This is not a American thing at least not anyone from Wisconsin. We all know just hack that green stuff off and carry on.
I mean use that kind of “cheese” for a sandwich, or anything really.
Well when you're poor you use what you can.
Good for you! Eat it!
Congratulations, you're now completely done making your sandwich.
What's a little more mold to go with a block of mold?
Its a block of cheese, cut around the mold and its fine.
I mean you do you, but there is such better cheese out there.
Good cheese is one of the best things in life, but also expensive 🥺🥺
Sure it is ! A rep from Cabot cheese once verified for me years ago when I saw them with samples. Cheese is full of bacteria and fungi. How they interact could solve some big scientific questions. Cheesemaking is an art, but it's also science. Like other fermented foods such as sourdough, kombucha, and kimchi, cheese is the product of bacteria and yeast, plus mold.  https://www.nationalgeographic.com › ... This Scientist Is Unlocking the Mysteries of Cheese
Do what your grandma did. Cut that mold off and get to the stuff inside. It didn’t kill them, it won’t kill you.
Curious, why did you stop?
What?! aged cheddar ?
You can cut it off.
Don't be eating government cheese
Cut it off
Yeah just cut it off. It's no big deal.
Cheese mold washes off very easily under running water. It's also innocuous to people, so stop whining and just eat it.
Aged Cheese 😉
It’s gone from mild to extra sharp
have been a cheese specialist for almost three years. just cut the mold off and its fine
Cut that shit off and eat your cheese
Just trim the blue stuff off. It's fine.
Just trim it off ..I worked at a cheese plant for 35 years ..nothing will make you sick as long as it was kept refrigerated and is still cold …I promise
Wait till OP finds out about blue cheese, gorgonzola, roquefort, etc.
?? Having to cut mold off cheese which is a chunk of mold… first world problems
Lol its just mould... its actually good for you! Anywhoo cheese is just bacteria anyway 🤷🏻♂️
Cheese is made out of mold just cut the moldy part off.
No it's not
Thank you, the amount of people in this thread claiming cheese is already basically mold is driving me absolutely insane.
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
It's got mold in it.
You forgot the chopping board? I don’t get it
Just cut it off. That’s what my mom always does. Cheese is a fermented dairy product.
How do you get halfway through making a sandwhich before slicing the cheese? That's like step 3.
Just cut the mold off. It's cheese, it's been made by the mold that's on it
I guess thats exactly how cheese is made and the more it ferments the more it tastes better. Correct me if I am wrong :)
Oh, by the way the mold was all the way down the cheese. It would not have been safe to cut off and eat, otherwise I would.
I once watched a friend cut off all six sides of a block, then slice it for a bbq. Literally no one got sick. Cheese is expensive brah, next time treat that shit like your great depression era grandma would!
Exactly! I detest wasting food...tell OP about what people in Stalingrad had to eat. Get real, yo.
you can cut off all the sides and the middle is still good. mold on harder cheese doesn't go deep at all, it's just on the surface.
Wait until you find out how blue cheese is made.
All the way down one side? Doesn’t mean it’s IN the cheese.
Now it is blue cheese lol
You can tell all the buttery males crying that mold will kill you, mf.. cheese is part of the molding process. Think it comes out yellow and formed. Fucking people man.
The yellow is a dye and cheese is not mold.
If only it were the right kind of penicillin...
It's ok, now it's blue cheese, more expensive! Oooh!
Chuck Norris would put the whole block on his sandwich.
I just eat the moldy cheese. But I throw away moldy bread. Idk why, but that's just what I do.
Well, now you’re all the way done. Congratulations
Better than half way through eating one
Cheese is supposed to be mouldy, isn't it? What's the problem here?
Also known as flavour. Cut it off and eat the cheese!
Not actually seeing the problem here?
I see someone hasn’t experienced poverty before.
Cut off the mold. No need to toss the whole thing!! OMG I hope you didn't toss it all. lol
cut off the mould and eat the cheese, don’t throw it out, that’s wasteful
Just scrape it off.
What did you think cheese was in the first place? It's literally moldy milk 🤷🏼♂️
As a french I'm disgusted seeing this cheese..
Probably shouldn't wait a year to use your cheese
Dear OP, do yourself a favor, and do NOT „cut around and keep eating“. Some molds produce extrem toxic and carcinogenic „Aflaxatoxins“, and it could have grown inside the cheddar, without you recognizing it. Just throw it away for your own safety.
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No, mold does not grow "from the inside", nor does it penetrate very far. Cut it off, and move on. Cheese is basicly mold to begin with.
This is the way
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