[Cheese] brown mold on blue cheese

[Brian]

Cool.
Thanks


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Schmidling" <arf at mc.net>
To: "The Cheese Makers' Digest" <cheese at hbd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Cheese] brown mold on blue cheese


> Brian wrote:
>
>> (I'm going back a few posts here)  are you saying that one should leave 
>> the
>> brown and blue mold on the unwaxed cheese in order to protect it as wax
>> would?
>
>
> Not exactly.  I am saying just wipe off whatever comes off and don't be
> anal about it.  Scraping or gouging off every bit of mold is a waste of
> time and unnecessarily exposes new cheese to the atmosphere.
>
> If you rub it with oil once a week, you will remove the spores and just
> leave the mycelium behind in a weakened state.  When you cut into the
> cheese, just cut off the moldy rind and enjoy it.
>
> js
>
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