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How long is cheese good for if it is sealed in wax and refrigerated?
I have a piece of cheese in my fridge, I'm guessing it's been in there for over a year ( you know how things get lost)
Anyway, I got to wondering how long before it would get moldy or go bad?
It's never been opened, and it si completely sealed.
AND
I do not want to open it yet. I have too much cheese.
13 Answers
- Ronda BLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
As long as its sealed in wax and refrigerated it can be good for a really long time. Its just aging which can be a good thing. If it molds as long as its hard cheese you can just cut the mold off it and its still good. Soft cheese if it molds toss it out.
- skipperLv 51 decade ago
The cheese won't really go bad but yes it could get moldy. If it is properly sealed by a commercial dairy it probably could last a really long time. The use (often) antimycotics on the surface to prevent mold growth and if the seal is good mold won't grow anyway. Mold need oxygen to grow so if the seal it tight there will be no mold growth
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- 1 decade ago
I had some cheese sealed in wax - 2 months later it was pretty moldy who knows there may have been a little crack in the wax I didn't see - guess it depends on the cheese too,
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- 1 decade ago
I guess it depends on how well it is sealed. I have seen cheese go moldy in a week. Then again good cheese is usually aged for 10 months or more (usually sealed in wax).
- Anonymous1 decade ago
does it have mold on it now? If not, you can eat it. If it does have mold just cut the mold off and eat the inside of the cheese. If there is nothing left by the time you cut off the mold then you are too late. This is assuming a hard cheese. hard cheeses are very dense so you can cut the outer mold off and it doesn't penetrate into the interior, unlike softer foods,where exterior mold also means interior contamination.
- firebobbyLv 71 decade ago
Cut it open and see. before refrigerators cheese was kept covered in the larder, and as the mould grew on it you cut it off and carried on eating the cheese until it became too dry.
- theronLv 44 years ago
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
A lot depends on the quality of the cheese. Someone I knew had an imitation Gouda made in Ireland that she'd kept in her fridge for just a few weeks, and three days after she ate it, she was dead.
- 1 decade ago
The way most cheeses are made these days, they're not worth eating anyway.
Source(s): O-Level Chemistry