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Argh - moldy cheese in my dinner! Can I still eat it?
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Anonymous
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Just put a huge batch of dinner in the oven. It's sort of like scalloped potatoes, but with other veggies added in. When I was making the sauce to pour over it, I added some shredded cheese I found in the fridge - it wasn't expired yet and I looked pretty closely and didn't see any mold. But when I poured it into the sauce, I spotted one tiny bit of blue mold. Tried to fish it out, but the sauce was so hot the cheese melted and I couldn't find it again. That's all in the oven now, at 375 degrees for an hour. Do you think it's ok to eat? I'm feeding a toddler and a pregnant woman - ?????
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Anonymous
| I'd eat it, but that's just me. |
Anonymous
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I'd not risk.
I got food poisoning from mold in the bread and it was ugly. Pregnant and feedin a toddler NO WAY! But that's just me. |
Anonymous
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OP here. I just looked at the remainder of the bag of cheese (fished out of the trash) and found no mold at all. So I'm guessing it's a tiny amount in the whole dish and we're probably good to go. Thanks for your thoughts in my moment of panic.
Signed, Pirate |
Anonymous
Unlikely. You'd have to eat a LOT of it. Most people who get sick from eating mold are in food-insecure environments where they have no choice but to eat what they have, moldy or not. That said, mycotoxins are mostly found in grain products, so it's possible. It also means that OP's speck of cheese mold is not too worrisome. |
Anonymous
| There is no way a pregnant woman should eat any amount of moldy cheese! It could cause miscarriage for Christ's sake! |
Anonymous
| You realize that bacteria (mold) is required to make cheese, don't you? I'd eat it. Besides, the mold could live after being baked in the oven. |
Anonymous
Wait, I thought cheese WAS mold? I really doubt a speck of mold going into a 350 degree oven is going to hurt anyone. Should OP not eat mushrooms as they are fungus? Stop scaring people. |
Anonymous
You realize that mold is a FUNGUS not a bacteria, right? OMG how much lower can DCUM go? |
Anonymous
Where did that come from??????????? 
And there are edible mushrooms and non-edible super poisonous ones, you know, right? |
Anonymous
| I can help you with that. I can be over in twenty minutes. Should I bring anything? |
Anonymous
Such drama! So unwarranted! If you knew anything at all about cheeses, you'd know that cheese can be made with bacteria and fungus (mold). It's not at all uncommon for a cheese started with bacteria to have mold (fungus) on the rind. Sourdough is also made with yeast (a fungus) and bacteria. |
Anonymous
You are making the bad assumption that the all molds are the same. They are not. When food goes moldy, it is most often from something airborne, not what was used to make the food. |
Anonymous
Babe, there's no way to fix up the shit you already said. Just get out before you make us pee in our pants laughing at you. First you call mold a bacteria and now you're assuming all fungi kingdom is edible? Pleeeeeeease! |
Anonymous
| OP, you are probably on the toilet now but I hope the dinner was good. |