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Moldy Food

Poll: What do you do? (35 member(s) have cast votes)

What do you do?

  1. I throw it all away. (17 votes [48.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 48.57%

  2. I throw just the moldy one away. (16 votes [45.71%])

    Percentage of vote: 45.71%

  3. I cut the mold off the infected one and eat it. (2 votes [5.71%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.71%

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#1 User is offline   rogerclee 

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Posted 2008-June-30, 12:54

Let's say you were going to eat a tasty treat, and this tasty treat was in a container with others of the same kind. You reach in to get it, but find that ONE of them has a small amount of mold beginning to grow on it.

Your plan?
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Posted 2008-June-30, 12:57

I pay attention to industrial strength advice....


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Posted 2008-June-30, 13:02

Apparently, moldy chesse makes better fondue, or something like that. I saw something with Jacques Pepin talking about using that moldy chesse, old and all, ground up and melted somehow.
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Posted 2008-June-30, 13:08

this may depend on what kind of food it is and how hungry I am.

cheese is supposed to be moldy, right?

besides, a little penicillin never hurt anyone...
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Posted 2008-June-30, 14:00

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I cut the mold off the infected one and eat it.

If you're going to eat the mold, why bother cutting it off first?
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Posted 2008-June-30, 14:10

I'm a little girl. I throw it all out.

Amendment: sometimes in dark days of university dorm life, I'd just eat it all. It has definitely happened before.
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Posted 2008-June-30, 15:24

Invariably, the mycelium (root like structures of fungi) extend down into the food. These mycelium contain all of the toxins (and flavenoids in certain blue molds like roquefort cheese etc.) of the fungus and as such tend to "destabilize" the cellular structure of the foodstuff. Eat moldy foods at your risk and peril. Still, more people get sick from improper hygiene especially where poultry is concerned so wtf, soups on!
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Posted 2008-June-30, 15:37

Depends on the food really. Bread gets thrown out as soon as any mould appears. Whereas with fruit I just throw out the mouldy ones.
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Posted 2008-June-30, 15:42

rogerclee, on Jun 30 2008, 10:54 AM, said:

Let's say you were going to eat a tasty treat, and this tasty treat was in a container with others of the same kind. You reach in to get it, but find that ONE of them has a small amount of mold beginning to grow on it.

Your plan?

What kind of 'tasty treat' we talking about? Have to be some pretty f-ing tasty bite to eat around some spores. I'm hard pressed to think about anything that I would eat. Mold is pretty serious to me.

Stale bread I can handle, rancid chips if there's nothing better in the house and I'll drink sour milk, but I hate the stuff. In college I had some eggs that must have been 6 months old, but those were desperate times. At midnight in Montana in February you don't exactly hike out to the C-store.

My kids are funny. They'll ask me to smell the milk to see if its sour, but they won't touch it if its past the expiration date.
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Posted 2008-June-30, 20:44

Stale is one thing, I may try to salvage something. But mold I'm not screwing around with. If I ate any part of it and got sick I would feel like an idiot. Who needs it?
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Posted 2008-June-30, 21:19

I'll pretty much eat anything shoved in front of my face. Including food dropped on the floor, picking off any hairs of course. I have a habit that most people tell me is disgusting, though I have no idea why, which is to eat leftovers directly out of the fridge without heating them up.

If it was just a small spot of mold I'd probably bite off the moldy part, spit it out, and eat the rest. If it was particularly huge or gross I'd cut it off instead.
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Posted 2008-June-30, 21:23

I have read that 75% of the cases of the "flu" are actually food spoilage related illnesses.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 02:41

Whatever is moldy is thrown away quickly. My apartment isn't big enough for me and moldy food. And since I'm not going, it has got to go!

I am not going to save like 1 € for the risk of eating it and becoming ill.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 08:40

Just throw away the moldy part, wtp?
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Posted 2008-July-01, 10:20

I happen to be in JDonn's camp. People worry too much about things like that. I can tell you since I don't make my house a complete disinfectant bubble, I barely get sick and my kids get sick almost never. If food hits the floor for one second, what does it matter? A little mold is Ok, as long as it still tastes good.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 10:43

ASkolnick, on Jul 1 2008, 11:20 AM, said:

I happen to be in JDonn's camp. People worry too much about things like that. I can tell you since I don't make my house a complete disinfectant bubble, I barely get sick and my kids get sick almost never. If food hits the floor for one second, what does it matter? A little mold is Ok, as long as it still tastes good.

You couldn't pay me to eat meat with mold on it....

There's actually a good argument that getting minor foodborne illnesses helps your immune system and strengthens your body in general. On the other hand, botulism has a rather nasty tendency to kill you...
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Posted 2008-July-01, 19:23

ASkolnick, on Jul 1 2008, 11:20 AM, said:

I happen to be in JDonn's camp. People worry too much about things like that. I can tell you since I don't make my house a complete disinfectant bubble, I barely get sick and my kids get sick almost never. If food hits the floor for one second, what does it matter? A little mold is Ok, as long as it still tastes good.

As general philosophy, I agree. I eat much and worry little. Mold I pitch.


As a child I ate raw hamburger, uncooked bread dough, green apples galore, and God only knows what else. I don't recommend all of that, but I certainly find the modern style is far too fussbudgety for my taste. However you can still have all my moldy food for free.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 21:27

kenberg, on Jul 1 2008, 08:23 PM, said:

uncooked bread dough

Is that supposed to be bad for you?
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Posted 2008-July-02, 01:48

TimG, on Jul 1 2008, 07:27 PM, said:

kenberg, on Jul 1 2008, 08:23 PM, said:

uncooked bread dough

Is that supposed to be bad for you?

raw eggs are supposedly bad.
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Posted 2008-July-02, 03:33

TimG, on Jul 2 2008, 04:27 AM, said:

kenberg, on Jul 1 2008, 08:23 PM, said:

uncooked bread dough

Is that supposed to be bad for you?

Dunno but it gives me stomach pain.
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