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Originally Posted by Bonnyboy

Got some Cheddar cheese from the Asda last week. Opened the cheese on Tuesday. I returned the cheese to fridge in an airtight container ( still in its plastic wrapping but folded over at the opened end )

On taking the cheese out for a nibble 10 mins ago, I saw that mould was starting to form on the cheese at the unopened end.

Display until date is blank. Use by date is 31st December.

There must be something wrong here surely. The cheese doesn’t appear to have a snowballs chance in hell of reaching the end of this month, let alone next month.

Am I right thinking this is not good or does this happen with cheese and I just have not noticed. I intend to complain but not sure if this is natural or not.

It might have been that when you bought the cheese the wrapping might have been punctured.

All blocks of cheese come hermetically sealed. Once you break the seal, as you have to, to eat it, air gets at the cheese.

Sealing it in an air tight container isn’t enough. You have to wrap it tightly in cling film or if using a plastic bag, squeeze all the air out of it if you want it to last a week or two.

The other point is to look at the sell by date BEFORE buying any food. In fact poke your arm to the back of the shelf and grab what’s there rather than the stuff at the front.