Moldy cheese

[Domestique]

You open the fridge door and that cheese sandwich you have been dreaming of fades when you see the cheese has gone moldy. What do you do

[Kim]

Mu.  Cheese that's been exposed to air for long enough to go mouldy is only fit for melting.

[Basil]

If I get to the mouldy cheese, it will be because I've got bugger all else in the fridge.  So definitely cut and paste use.
I'd cook it though.  A macaroni cheese or something.

[Biggsy]

I don't mind cutting off the mold and eating the rest if it tastes ok.  But it often doesn't to me. 

I like blue cheese, but that's a different sort of mold, innit?

[Mrs Pingu]

I used to cut the mouldy bits off food and use it until I saw that program on decomposition the BBC did a few months ago where they said that the obviously mouldy bit is only the tip of the iceberg, in mould terms. Which put me right off.

A couple of weeks ago I got some OOD mozzarella out of the fridge: 'it'll be fine, it's in a sealed bag in brine' I said.
It was pink!
I threw it away.

[Valiant]

I've always cut the moudly bits off.

[hellymedic]

No 'eat the mouldy bit as mould improves flavour' option?!!!

I eat cheese with mould when nobody's looking...
(David would get upset if he saw this.)

[rafletcher]

If it tastes acceptable (and to me a perfectly good camembert definitely doesn't! ("holding nose smiley")) then eat it.

[Charlotte]

I cut the mould off and nom it all up, definitely.

[numbnuts]

If it's not walking eat it 

[Cudzoziemiec]

[tonycollinet]

Slice of mould - wash if necessary Eat.

[Rhys W]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CGseBM85gc

[fred the great]

Very little of anything is wasted out of our Frig although I do slip up occasionally but not often.

[andyoxon]

For hard cheeses with 'fridge' mold, I'd cut it off and use the cheese for cooking.  Any old soft cheeses with mold that wasn't originally there would go int bin.

[Notsototalnewbie]

I’m of the ‘cut off and eat it’ persuasion but the need to do this has reduced dramatically since I got a Lakeland cheese box thingummy. I don’t know how the thing works but it does. It’s like witchcraft. I’m very impressed.

[tiermat]

A tip I got from my FiL - don't ever touch the cheese with your bare hands.  9 times out of 10 that is how mould starts on cheese.  Use the wrapper or a piece of kitchen towel to hold it if grating, or just place it on a board and cut, only touching the bit you intend to eat.