[Cheese] brown mold on blue cheese

[Jack Schmidling]

WEMerlin at aol.com wrote:
> When you eat this  
> cheese, is this mold a concern for health or taste? Do you scrape off what you  
> can and not worry about the rest, or do you cut off enough cheese to get rid 
> of  all of it? Or is there a way to 'wash' it off?

As a general rule, just consider the rind waste.  It's a lot easier than 
worrying about it.  I don't know of any mold that is a health risk but 
most of them taste pretty yucky at the surface because that is mostly 
sporangia or the fruiting bodies I referred to previously.

Unless you are waxing a cheese, the rind is a necessary evil.  It takes 
the place of wax and like wax, is removed before eating.

js

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