Funny, Brook... Y'know? I've known many folks who would say that sour cream never "sours" or that blue cheese can never be too blue... but let me tell you, when you work in commercial kitchens where if product isn't properly rotated, you soon learn that that is indeed wrong! Ha! I've seen sour cream that I swear was PINK it was SO past it's expiration date. And I've seen blue cheese so old it turned YELLOW as January Nose Blowin's! (Not Good! Yucko!)
I've had sour cream turn bad, Chubbs, but only once. It usually gets moldy long before any of those other indications appear.
I usually pay scant attention to expiration dates, because they are arbitrary at best. But when mold starts to appear on dairy products, you know it's past time to replace them.
Blue cheese doesn't hang around here long enough to turn. But I know it can happen. Did have a piece of Stilton that got lost in the back of the fridge, once, and you don't want to know what it looked like.
Any cheese can spoil, particularly if it's kept in plastic wrap or zipper bags. But it let's you know by a distinct color change (usually a yellowish--ocreish--tannish something) and, often, by a slimey surface.
I usually pay scant attention to expiration dates, because they are arbitrary at best. But when mold starts to appear on dairy products, you know it's past time to replace them.
Blue cheese doesn't hang around here long enough to turn. But I know it can happen. Did have a piece of Stilton that got lost in the back of the fridge, once, and you don't want to know what it looked like.
Any cheese can spoil, particularly if it's kept in plastic wrap or zipper bags. But it let's you know by a distinct color change (usually a yellowish--ocreish--tannish something) and, often, by a slimey surface.
BREAKING NEWS -
CNN, MSNBC.....................
Giant worms attacking chickens all over the country! (out of revenge) The source of the giant worms has been found! In a graveyard - in pieces - in soil from Three Mile Island Nuclear Waste. Since worms cannot talk - no one knew that the pieces were still alive!
Now they are mutating. And they are attacking our chicken population!
The price of chickens - if you can ever find any again - will be astronomical!
And when the chickens are all extinct - what will they feed on next?
No pesticides will kill them. The Orkin man is afraid of them. This is a global crisis! Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them????????????
(morning everyone...............)
CNN, MSNBC.....................
Giant worms attacking chickens all over the country! (out of revenge) The source of the giant worms has been found! In a graveyard - in pieces - in soil from Three Mile Island Nuclear Waste. Since worms cannot talk - no one knew that the pieces were still alive!
Now they are mutating. And they are attacking our chicken population!
The price of chickens - if you can ever find any again - will be astronomical!
And when the chickens are all extinct - what will they feed on next?
No pesticides will kill them. The Orkin man is afraid of them. This is a global crisis! Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them????????????
(morning everyone...............)
Back before my days of meat & potato work camps, at hotels and private clubs I often stocked 5# and 10# wheels of gorgonzola & stilton, and often staff would get into a new wheel before the old one was used completely up. I've seen many a remnant of over-ripe blues and let me tell you- they'd rival any corpse on "Bones" or "NCI Miami"! The worst I ever saw was a huge wedge of $15.00/lb. mango-ginger stilton that was only identifiable as such by it's lable- it had a pink and green BUFONT that kept any trace of original cheese well-hidden!