On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:39:45 -0400, Brooklyn1
> wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:56:01 -0500, Sqwertz >
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:10:20 -0600, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>
>>> the rule of thumb is that you can cut mold off of hard cheese and the
>>> cheese is safe to eat.
>>
>>That's not true. The mold may be safe to eat, but the cheese is
>>contaminated all the way through (unless you somehow just contaminated
>>the outside of the cheese). Cutting off the visible mold won't make
>>it any safer.
>>
>>Most people way they can't taste it, but I can taste the mold inside
>>cheese when my mother used to insist that I can just cut it off and
>>it'll be fine.
>
>
>True... the part of mold that appears on the surface are the fruiting
>bodies, but before that occurs the entire piece of food is permeated
>through and through with the mold mycillium... food mold is a fungus,
>no different from mushrooms. Removing the part you can see does
>nothing to save the food, it's already way too late.

How do you know the mycelical growth permeates the "entire piece of
food"? Maybe it permeates just a small portion of the "entire piece of
food".

And then we can argue aboput extent of mycelical permeation!!

John Kuthe...

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