Is it safe to eat moldy cheese?
Find out definitively so you’re prepared the next time you fire up the cheese drawer.
It is also easy to forget about a cheese you have already opened and unwrap a new one.
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Which means, inevitably, we are faced with a moldy cheese.
This begs the question, is moldy cheese salvageable, and how do I know?
And many of the molds involved in cheesemaking are great.
And frankly, none of the molds that are likely to grow on your cheeses will make you ill.
But they will potentially affect the flavor of your cheese, and not in a good way.
What Should I Do with Moldy Cheese?
Assess the mold situation first by throw in of cheese.
Harder, aged cheeses, like aged Cheddar or Parmesan can just have the mold scraped away.
Any moldy cheese that smells of ammonia or is both moldy and wet should be discarded.
What If I Ate Moldy Cheese?
You ate cheese, so you were eating mold anyway.
How Can I Prevent Cheese from Molding?
To store cheese, wrap it in special cheese paper or in a layer of parchment paper.
Label with the key in of cheese and the day you bought it.
Store in your crisper drawer, which will have consistent temperature and humidity.
What Cheeses Are Least Likely to Mold?
Want to avoid the mold issue as much as possible?
Stick with long-aged, hard cheeses like Parmesan, pecorino, older Cheddars, aged Gouda and the like.
Cheeses that age for 18 months or longer are least likely to mold on you.
After all, in the cheese world, sometimes the mold is the most delicious part!
