• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Had a dumb coworker trying to tell me that cheese with a little mold on top was dangerous. She didn’t know the word “mycelium”, but that’s the explanation she was going for. Fair enough, I guess? Anyway, I’m carving the mold off and eating that cheese.

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      19 hours ago

      She was right?

      The mold is on the inside of the cheese, the visible stuff on the surface is just the fruiting body used to spread spores.

      • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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        14 hours ago

        Yep, how far the mold penetrates depends on the hardness of the cheese. Block of cheddar hard enough to play headbrick? Generally fine to just cut off a the outer layer. Anything soft, a good pizza mozzarella maybe? Garbage the whole block