On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:26:48 -0600, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:42:43 -0600, George Shirley wrote:
>
>> Yes, have been there done that, cheese was good. Even if it gets moldy
>> on the outside shave the mold off and eat it anyway.
>
>Mold is actually *inside* the cheese as well as the outside. It just
>gows better outside the cheese.

Mold grows "better"/more profusely inside the cheese, what's seen on
the exterior are the fruiting bodies but the mycillium were growing
inside the cheese for like a month already, formed a rather dense
network.

>I can taste the mold inside the cheese when I cut off the moldy parts.
>i gave up doing that 25 years ago. And there have been several
>published health warnings about that (agreeing that most cheese molds
>are safe, but several are not).

Actually few of the molds that inadvertantly grow on the exterier of
cheese are safe, only relatively few that are purposefully innoculated
into certain cheeses are safe.

Cutting away the visible mold from the surface of any food is just
fooling yerselves... by the time yoose see it the mold has already
permeated the entire thing, the fruiting bodies are a very miniscule
part. Btw, mold/fungus are the largest living things on the planet.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...nism-is-fungus