Homemade mature cheese

[domesticextremist]

Found a packet of Red Leicester that had worked its way to
the back of the fridge the other day.
Use by date was 20th Feb. The pack was still sealed, and it wasn't
mouldy, so before binning it, I thought I'd just give it a try.

Wow, it really had matured and tasted lovely.
I've been eating big lumps of it today and yesterday, and have no ill
effects - just goes to show use by dates don't mean instant death
(mind you don't do this with fresh/cooked meats etc)

Just thought I'd share :0

[Perpetua]

Thank you Dom . . . a happier ending than my ' misplaced ' pack of cooked chicken pieces.

I couldn't understand what the smell in my car was, it doesn't get cleaned very often I'm afraid . . . until I did decide to give it a blitz inside and out.

Only to find under a seat, what can only be described as festering liquid in thankfully a sealed pack . . . the chicken pieces that had gone awol 2 months or so previously.

[Bluefish]

Admit it perps, you were saving them for when you felt peckish, euuurrrgh

[nicky]

May 23, 2012 23:19:37 GMT domesticextremist said:

Found a packet of Red Leicester that had worked its way to
the back of the fridge the other day.
Use by date was 20th Feb. The pack was still sealed, and it wasn't
mouldy, so before binning it, I thought I'd just give it a try.

Wow, it really had matured and tasted lovely.
I've been eating big lumps of it today and yesterday, and have no ill
effects - just goes to show use by dates don't mean instant death
(mind you don't do this with fresh/cooked meats etc)

Just thought I'd share :0

When we were kids my nan only ever used to give us mouldy cheese and when we complained we used to get told "it's a bit of penicillin and do you no harm get it down you" .

[Queenie Bee]

I love mouldy cheese


Sent from the outer reaches of space and time

[Bluefish]

May 24, 2012 7:28:28 GMT Queenie Bee said:

I love mouldy cheese


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you can go off a person you know lol

[Queenie Bee]

How could you possibly go off me blue


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[esmecullen]

Lol........... just goes to show like some e-juices, cheese can mature to a lovely taste

[Perpetua]

May 23, 2012 23:39:29 GMT Bluefish said:

Admit it perps, you were saving them for when you felt peckish, euuurrrgh

[dave]

I think it is a generational thing - I was always told as a kid - "you've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die". Before you ask - that was not quite Victorian times!
My kids throw things the second they reach their sell by date. My view is that if it is not moving unaided and does not smell vile it's probably edible

[Gordy]

May 24, 2012 13:20:49 GMT dave said:

I think it is a generational thing - I was always told as a kid - "you've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die". Before you ask - that was not quite Victorian times!
My kids throw things the second they reach their sell by date. My view is that if it is not moving unaided and does not smell vile it's probably edible

that rules out my cooking then

[Perpetua]

Tesco's do my cooking . . . I just ' re-heat ' these days or cobble a salad up together.

[dave]

Oh Perpy - if you were a bit nearer I'd do you a meals on wheels service
Mind you some of my meals would probably stand up to RM

[Anne (fuzzy)]

When I was a kid hundreds of years ago, there was no such things as sell by and use by dates. People used their eyes and sense of smell to check if food was OK. The human race would have come to an end long ago if food wasn't safe to eat.

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[Sandra (aka Chillax)]

Dave your right, about the generation thing, love the 'if its not moving unaided'

My husband loves that cheese that cheese that has blue bits in (cant remember its name) and god knows how old that is in the fridge.