Extra sharp white cheddar tillamook, best by date Nov 27 2023. It’s been refrigerated and unopened the whole time. Is this just extra aged now? Safe to eat?
by spicyprairiedog
Extra sharp white cheddar tillamook, best by date Nov 27 2023. It’s been refrigerated and unopened the whole time. Is this just extra aged now? Safe to eat?
by spicyprairiedog
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a semi-hard or hard cheese like that, if it looks and smells good and has no visible mold, I’m eating it.
I’d open it, see how it looked. My guess is it’s absolutely fine.
Assuming it’s unopened, it states “Best (by)” so in theory it should be edible but not ‘at its best’
I would open it and have a look, smell and feel.
if it smells odd (funky/fishy etc), feels slick or slimy in any way, or there are signs of mould I would leave it alone.
you should send it to me for safe disposal 😉
Check if it has any mold. Tbh you should do that with all store bought and refrigerated cheeses. I used to work at a grocery store and the amount of unexpired cheeses with blatant mold I saw on the shelves for sale was crazy
Look, smell. All good? Eat.
2023?! You keep your fridge on dry cave setting?
With cheese it’s pretty easy to tell it’s off. If it has mold you aren’t expecting them cut that bit off and eat the rest. It s a super long time but… Honestly if it looks fine and smells like cheese then it’s probably just aged well. Vintage cheddar now.
I don’t know if it’s “safe” but I know that I would eat it without pause.
Probably. Well aged cheddar is generally the best.
How’d you lose that in your fridge for a year and a half? lol. Like everyone else has stated. If I smells fine and looks fine, It’s probably fine.
I’m impressed by the manufacturers quality controls. With no mold after so many years.
I’ll eat it if you don’t
I had this exact cheese and it was also slightly past the best by date. It was some of the best white cheddar I’ve ever had. There were cheese crystals throughout the whole thing and it was fucking delicious!
I have parmesan that’s over fifteen years old and cheddar, that’s over six, you’re fine
The “best by” date is really for people who are used to American cheese.
They want you to throw it away and buy more.
No mold, no problem.
It’s not moldy, I’d eat it.
Looks ok.
I buy 3, 5 yr old cheddar all the time and “lose” it for an extra year or two in the fridge. Gets a bit drier, crumbly and tangier.
The bacteria colony will have expanded from a small stronghold to a bustling city, and they are keeping the peace. Eat and savour.
The nose knows
If it isn’t growing anything yes for sure.
Now it’s just extra extra sharp.
Smell it. If it makes you want to gag don’t eat
It will be good, and aged even more!
It’s a high quality cheese. It has no visible mold on it. Break out the crackers.
It’s amazing what the sealed packaging can do. I had a chunk of cheddar that I opened maybe a month ago, stored in a sealed ziplock, and it was all moldly when I pulled it out the other day. (I cut away the surface mold and have survived eating it.)
Clean out yer fridge every once in awhile dude
It’s just extra-extra sharp now.
Smash
I personally wouldn’t trust cheap dairy aisle cheeses that are that old but as long as it smells good and there’s no mold, it should be fine.
I grew up cutting any mold off and eat on
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Seriously if is not visibly off and don’t smell you’ll be fine.
Hard, aged cheeses are generally always fine as long as it looks fine. These are products that were eaten without refrigeration for many, many years.
You never know with modern processes, but I’d assume a Tilamook aged cheddar is fine if it’s been kept in a fridge the entire time.
I ‘forgot’ a cheese much like this one for two years in the fridge. I get the fridge just above freezing. It was a little too sharp to just eat, but damn if it didn’t make the best cheddar bay biscuits I’ve ever had.
I’m sure it’s fine but might have absorbed a plastic taste on the outside
I looked at the pickle jar I was eating today with my sandwich, and realized they expired in 2021. I opened the jar about a week ago and have eaten half of them in that time. If it tastes good I think you’ll be okay.
I thought it said 2029 and couldn’t see the problem…
Aged over ~~2~~ 3 years.
Cheddar should age like a fine cheese. Because it’s cheese.
I would eat it.
Yes unless bad smell or mold
every 6-months adds an “extra”
If it’s blue and fuzzy you’re probably going to want to cut those parts off. The rest of the cheese underneath is just fine
Idk, it says it’s sharp so you might cut yourself, be careful 🙏
Can you let us know how it turned out?
OP I can tell from here it’s totally fine
It’s not worth the stomach pain, toss it!!!
It may well be all the better for having spent the extra time. ‘Best by’ dates and the like, both the date and the specific phrasing, are legally mandated.
If the cheese smells good, I would most definitely eat it without hesitation.