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How to stop cheese getting mouldy?

briskbeats
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Past fortnight or so, I have some reduced fat cheddar with a UB of 8/9 that has gone mouldy. UB of 8/9. I slice of the bits of mould and its still great. I keep the cheese in its packet and in a zip lock food bag.
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is it 8th Sept or 9th Aug? It may depend on where it was produced.
That said - cheese is just milk that's gone off so it really shouldn't matter. I think mould is due to how damp the cheese gets, and that would include when it's out of the packet and being sliced before being returned to the fridge.I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Debt Free Wannabe and Old Style Money Saving boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
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Can you grate it and then freeze it? Then taking out just what you require.
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It's too moist. Take it out of the ziplock bag and just leave it in it's original packaging.
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Better to hold the cheese through the wrapping if at all possible. It’s the bits where your fingers touched it that go mouldy first. (Same with bread).
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1. Don't get reduced fat stuff. This is just inedible plastic and not cheese ;-()2. Do not excessively wrap it. Cerrtianly not air tight so it sweats.3. Eat it!5. Cut of the moluld and eat the rest sicne it is a hard cheese. A very thin slice usually does it.My cheese habbits would probably scare you! I like soft ripe cheese. Of course this means I need to open the packet and leave it on a hot windowcill for 5 days of so before eating. (In a cloche otherwise my partner compains about the smell.Really don't buy that reduced fat stuff. Sugar is the bad thing anywya not fat and if you have convinced yourself that stuff is edible or cheese then you probably need locking up (much like my mother).2
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I buy tesco’s medium cheddar & found it went sweaty & mouldy if i kept it in it’s own packaging. Now i wrap it tightly in clingfilm & never had a problem since0
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Novice_investor101 said:I buy tesco’s medium cheddar & found it went sweaty & mouldy if i kept it in it’s own packaging. Now i wrap it tightly in clingfilm & never had a problem sinceIck! Be a lot happier if you wrapped it in nothing.Also medium! Why bother ;-)0
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Carrot007 said:My cheese habbits would probably scare you! I like soft ripe cheese. Of course this means I need to open the packet and leave it on a hot windowcill for 5 days of so before eating. (In a cloche otherwise my partner compains about the smell.
I've found Cheddar goes mouldy more easily than it used to whatever way I wrap it - it's own wrapper or not, sealed or open. And on all sides, where it used to be just the side nearest the opening. That's a lot of slices to cut off so I started buying smaller packs and have noticed that with Orkney Cheddar it doesn't go mouldy even when it's been in the fridge ages (cluttered fridge). In it's own wrapper, sealed or open. More expensive, yes, but I was cutting a lot off the bigger ones and don't have any waste now. I don't even look at the best before dates.
Cheddar freezes fine - just comes out a bit crumbly possibly through losing a bit of moisture.
I haven't seen what we used to call Persian cat mould for years - a lovely soft deep grey mould!0 -
I wrap mine in beeswax wraps and then store it on a marble turntable under a glass dome on a cool shelf in my larder if it's the really good stuff.
If it's supermarket hard cheese which came in a plastic wrapping I cut that right off the minute I get it home and then put it in a plastic box in the fridge.
I do sometimes freeze supermarket cheddar and usually don't bother to grate it first because it comes out so crumbly it's almost done it for you anyway.
I do agree with those above who say not to touch it too much as like them I think that's where the mould spores come from.0
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