Can you eat cheese thats been out for days?

Question

I just discovered i left a whole brick of cheese in my trunk. Its been 3 days various degrees of hot and cold. I'm planning on throwing it out but i know cheese is mostly bacteria anyways. It looks like a normal brick of cheese but i dunno about dairy products. Anyone know if its safe?

Answer 1

No you might get a food born illness.

Answer 2

You did without it for three days anyway... Throw it out and forget about it. Yuk.

Answer 3

My grandmother would love it.She used to put her cheese in the hot sun to ripen.She would not eat the cheese till it was mouldy and then she ate the mould to.It was how she was raised and was part of her culture.Just watching her eat it made me sick.

Answer 4

no! dont do it! bad idea! u dont wanna get sick!

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Answer 5

It's not worth it - throw it out.   3 days is too long.   It's not worth the  amount of $ you paid for the cheese compared to the consequences of eating it.  

Answer 6

nooooooooo

Answer 7

I would not think so. Not after its been though a heat.  

Answer 8

no im dont even like cheese really

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Answer 9

noway get rid of it now.....dont eat it it will make you sick.....

Answer 10

i dont think so its probley all musy and collecting bacteria

Answer 11

Don't do it!

Answer 12

cheese is aged for like 2 years before you eat it.  its not the time that passed that scares me.  its the fact of the varying weather conditions.  

Answer 13

safe.. if there is any discoloration cut/scrape it off.

Answer 14

I would guess the cheese  is totally fine.

Answer 15

It depends on the type of cheese (what kind of animals milk is it made from and is it pasteurized or not?) and it depends on how fermented it is to begin with and also what conditions it is being kept in (refridgerated or not etc).

In general, in can range from days to weeks and....in the case of "cheese product" or "cheese food" like Velveeta, months...years....

Answer 16

you probly can but you might get sick from it. i wouldnt eat any kind of dairy product thats been in a car trunk for over a couple hours

Answer 17

i think it would be safe but i  still wouldnt eat it

Answer 18

No way...you will get really sick...throw it away

Answer 19

Don't eat it, especially because it's been in your car trunk. It doesn't matter if its been left out, cheeses can last for a very long time, but it matters about the temperature. Cold is fine, but because you say that it's been hot, then that's really worrying. In the supermarket, cheese is kept inside a fridge for a reason. Car trunks - as you know - can get really, really hot. The cheese is probably off now.

Remember a saying:

Although it's easy to put in, it's hard to get out.

This basically means that although its easy to eat this cheese, the disease and damage that might be caused by the cheese is extremely hard to get out.

Better safe than sorry.

Answer 20

It is safe.

Cheese is already "rotten" (by definition) and is actually created by mold/bacteria and is not refrigerated until it is ready for the consumer. Different "flavors" of cheese (ie cheddar, jack, Parmesan) is created by using different molds and bacterias.

They remove the moldy rind before they package it because it grosses out people to realize that cheese is really just rotten milk. The only reason they refrigerate it is to prevent the mold from growing back before the consumer buys it, so they don't get grossed out.

They can't do that with soft cheeses. When you buy brie, that outer coating is the mold!

Go to a cheese factory for a tour, it's an eye-opener. When I went (at the Sonoma Jack Cheese Factory in California) there were several people in my tour group that swore off cheese forever.

So just put it back in the fridge, cut off any mold, and it should be fine.

Answer 21

no, cause it might have mold on it and will make u sick.