2/25 I forgot to put an unopened cheddar cheese in the fridge when I got
home from the grocery store, and it was sitting at room temp for
about 8 hours. If I put it in the fridge now, will it be ok to eat?
\_ yes, it is ok to eat.
\_ cheese is mold in the first place anyhow.
\_ Only some cheeses use mold for flavor. It's never used for
curdling, which almost always uses bacterial cultures. Warm
cheese is fine to re-refrigerate; letting a cheese warm up
before eating makes it taste better, anyway. --pld
\_ there are different kinds of mold (healthy and unhealthy)...
though in response to the original poster, cutting off any
visible (blue, green, etc) mold should be more than enough
to keep from getting sick. |