To toss that block of cheddar or not? That is the question. Food & Wine / Getty Images You know what will stop you in your tracks when scrolling through Instagram? A block of moldy cheese. It’s ...

We consulted experts to find out if you can cut mold off cheese, and how to do it. Food safety professors say you can only cut mold off of hard cheeses, and you need to make sure you're cutting at ...

Once you cut out the mold, Sheth recommends putting the “newly trimmed cheese in a clean container and store in the fridge (40°F or colder)." Properly storing and wrapping up newly bought ...

Normally, when you find a food item in your fridge that has some mold-induced discoloration, you throw it out. So why is blue cheese safe to consume?

The first thing you’ve got to understand is that, by and large, microorganisms like mold are what makes cheese, well, cheese. “In a lot of ways, cheese is mold,” explains Morillo. With the ...

Blue cheese is made using Penicillium, a type of mold that’s responsible for its unique taste, smell, and appearance. Unlike other types of mold, Penicillium does not produce toxins and is safe ...

Bleu Cheese is delicious. We'd smother everything in it if we could. You know what's kind of troubling though—the mold in Bleu Cheese. Why is that okay to eat? Our moms told us when we were ...

I’ve seen questions about whether or not it’s safe to eat cheese after you cut mold off of it crop up on social media before, and Kubick’s initial video went viral about two years ago (in ...

You know what will stop you in your tracks when scrolling through Instagram? A block of moldy cheese. It’s a tragedy to behold — one I’ve witnessed in my own fridge quite a few times after ...