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How safe is mouldy food to eat?

by ianox on 10/22/14, 12:51 PM with 10 comments

  • by logfromblammo on 10/22/14, 5:37 PM

    I'd say that eating moldy foods is substantially similar to eating wild mushrooms.

    If you can't identify the mold species with certainty, don't.

  • by mod on 10/22/14, 6:01 PM

    This article didn't do much to answer the question, quite frankly.
  • by rasur on 10/22/14, 6:29 PM

    Some quite delicious Cheeses contain mould :)

    (although once, many years ago, I did do a blue cheese sauce to a meal, and gave myself and my wife a spectacular night and next day of... ejecta. Never going to forget that experience :( )

  • by wmil on 10/22/14, 7:48 PM

    If you're travelling and eating in a lot of questionable restaurants, grilled cheese is supposed to be one of the safest things to order. This article seems to agree.
  • by alex_doom on 10/22/14, 7:20 PM

    I wonder if rice is fine when it's been fried? Many times I've left out fried rice from a delivery for hours and eaten it later. Hmm.
  • by im3w1l on 10/22/14, 7:14 PM

    I think this was a pretty good article. It walked through a list of common food items and told how safe they were to eat when old.
  • by scottlocklin on 10/22/14, 9:21 PM

    Seems to me most people are waaay too paranoid about this kind of thing. Refrigerators are a recent innovation.
  • by joshdance on 10/22/14, 6:59 PM

    This is a bad article. I gives very few rules, and even less resources to find out more.