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Also, if you get bright white(!) spots on cheese like Brie (which is made with white fungus), it's usually just the cheese "reactivating". You - theoretically -
by ahartmetz 2y ago
Also, if you get bright white(!) spots on cheese like Brie (which is made with white fungus), it's usually just the cheese "reactivating". You - theoretically - don't even need to cut off anything.
- GuB-42 2y agoI remember having a brie-like cheese cut in half and left forgotten in the fridge for more than a month. The mold had reformed completely, as if it they were made like this in the first place. It tasted fine, no one got sick. Kind of underwhelming to be honest, but it wasn't particularly tasty to begin with: industrial cheese, pasteurized milk. It fact, that it still had some life in it surprised me.
- ahartmetz 2y agoFun! I've never let it come that far. Was it somehow fuzzy or really like the firm, white skin that it has when you buy it?
- kjkjadksj 2y agoI’ve eaten brie weeks after sell by date. It just turns into a firmer cheese by then no striking difference in taste really.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> It just turns into a firmer cheese by then Really? I thought it was the other way around, starting relatively firm and liquefying as it rots.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoMaybe by the end. It turned into more of a gouda texture; more effort to cut vs how soft brie starts off. Maybe it was drying out.
- ahartmetz 2y agoYeah, not much seems to happen to Brie - it stays fairly mild. Unlike Camembert, which gets significantly stronger and runnier over time.
- Agingcoder 2y agoIt depends on the Brie - pasteurized or not, from Meaux/Melun/etc. I find Unpasteurized Brie de Melun to be very strong.