/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14754755
I wouldn't worry about it, OP.

>>14754755
Depends on the source. A lot of mold is harmless

>>14754755
So, your also terrified of cheese?

>>14754755
>He doesn't harvest the penicillin for antibiotics or the yeast for bread/beer
How the hell are you gonna survive when SHTF?

>>14754761
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>>14754904
these posters are actually sentient fungal molds, don't trust them OP, don't eat the fucking mold.

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>>14754755
I just bought a wedge of imported blue cheese so no.

>>14754755
Purge your fridge on a schedule. Get in there every 3 days and inspect the produce and pitch things a bit dehydrated or soft, prior to mold. If you have a moldy lemon, you can safely wash the rest of the bag in warm soapy water. It's fine. Sometimes it's better to
I would wash out your produce drawers in the sink occasionally, again, hot soapy water, dry thoroughy. Prolly no need for actual bleach. My mom taught me to line drawers with paper towels and I think they do help. Really the quality of your fridge helps, as well as the produce and conditions where you buy it.

I love the pyrex-snapware, and the tupperware, and other produce keepers for the wavy bottoms and venting. They do help with certain veggies and fruits.

>>14754934
Mind your own business, blood bag

>>14754755
You have to be a special kind of lazy hoarder for food in your FRIDGE to go moldy.

>>14754755
Autistic crybaby detected

>>14754904
honestly, the way antibiotics are going, penicillin will be completely useless when shtf

>>14754904
Know a girl who has been on antibiotics every day for the past 15 years at the very least
>stop talking to her for a few years
>recently get in touch
>turns out she's on death's door because of gastrointestinal problems
What these medics do to people is fucking criminal

>>14754978
Washing lemons can make them mold faster, especially if you dont dry them properly. If using a bowl, the lemon at the bottom molds first because of moisture (and darkness) so use a colander or wire basket to hold them and promote air flow, and dry them fervently after washing.

>>14754755
>>14754978
Overly paranoid behavior. People have been dealing with mold as long as humans have existed, and there’s even evidence cavemen were using mold as a proto-antibiotic and a way to preserve food (cheese and sourdough, duh).
Hard foods (potatoes, cheese, etc) can easily have the moldy part removed with about half an inch extra to get rid of the roots. Most people say an inch or two but this is for literal babies and old people with severely debilitating health conditions. Soft foods can be thrown out, and then just wash the rest of them and dry them thoroughly to remove any traces of spores.
If you keep things organized well enough, clearing out the mold takes literally seconds. Some types of mold are even edible, although it’s a little ballsy to just eat some moldy food.

>>14754755
Corn smut is actually worth more than the corn it grows on.

>>14754755
Not terrified but im allergic to penicillin so i throw shit out way to early all the time just to be safe.

>>14754755
It's on and inside everything, life purges it's existence to stay alive but as soon as you die it gets the chance to bloom

the fuzz you're seeing is the end of it's life cycle, when it puts out more spores

typically most food is already dead so you don't want the spores to get on baked goods that have dead spores but like it's in the air and stuff

>>14755673
that's a fungus rather than a mold, we don't typically eat as many molds as we do fungi
even in cases of cheese, most people only eat a few specific kinds of cheese based on their region

>>14754755
Mold literally comes from the other world. Mold/Mushrooms are fucking aliens that shouldn't be trust. Do not eat them. Do not let them in your house.

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>>14754904

>>14754755

I just vacuum seal everything so there is no chance of getting mold.

Staffordshire oatcakes start growing fucking mold 0.2 seconds after they are made

>>14754755
Not terrified, but moldy things that aren't supposed to be moldy trigger my gag reflex, before I can even smell the food. Things like blue cheeses, even if they smell like rotting flesh, won't set me off, but a peach that's growing a friend? I'll dry heave all the way to the organics bin.

>>14754755
>>14754934
>>14755777

With love to you anon.

>>14756046
... nope. There's a story behind that, and every letter is its own tragedy.

>>14755979
What are you, a pussy or something? Just eat the ceiling fan. It's extra protein.

>>14754978
Lining the drawers with paper towels is a good idea, since it soaks up excess moisture. Mold loves moisture

>>14755995
Rotting fruit is the worst, it's almost like you can feel the spores coating your lungs

>>14754755
actually i am super fucking fascinated by mold

fungus and the likes are some of the most intriguing if not the most intriguing things to me

>>14755979
this is so fucking interesting to me where is it from? fuck i love mold

>>14754755
when i was a kid i was terrified of mold because i often forgot lunchboxes with vegetables/ half eaten sandwiches in my bag over weekends or school breaks and discovered a lot of fur but now i have a strange interest of mold.

>>14755979
Turn the fan on

>>14754755
I'm french. Mold's our bitch.

>>14757638
let it snow
let it snow
let it snow

>>14757653
I know, it's growing out of your pits. Take a shower Claude.

>>14754761
>t. Mold

>>14754755
If it's black mold, it can be harmful, never relax.

>>14754755
Only when it gets like cottony/cobweb and/or dusty

I'm not scared of it, but it does disgust me. My mother would just scrape it off of any food because >muh waste but idgaf I'll throw that shit out even with the smallest amount.

>>14755979
why does this ceiling fan kind of turn me on?

>>14755979
What would happen if you put a couple of UVC lamps in that room and turned them on for like an hour?

>>14757712
You'd kill the mold on the surface, and it would dry up, fall off, and fill the room with dust that might be carcinogenic, and is guaranteed to be bad for your lungs.

>>14754755
Fungus is delicious

>>14757890
ok shroomer

How quickly/far can mold spores spread? One of my roommates has a bag of lemons that's been sitting on the counter for weeks, and one of the lemons in the bag is now completely black and covered in white mold. Two days ago I bought some peaches, and left them on the other end of the counter, maybe 10 ft away, and today they were covered in white mold. Could it be because of the moldy lemon? How else can I stop peaches from molding?

>>14758054
mold can travel through the air with spores can’t it?

>Decrease temp in fridge to ~6c to 3c/37f
>Stuff now last at least a week longer than before
>Mold takes longer to form and spreads less quick as well
>Bread dough can be retarded for several days without over-fermenting
Best "food hack" in years for me.

>>14757918
You stop that right now.

>>14755777
basidiomycota'd and hyphae-pilled

>>14758054
spores are literally everywhere, all the time
bringing one mildy lemon into your house doesn't matter in the slightest

>>14754755
You derprive your body of fighting off organisms.

You are making yourself weak. You must be asian.

>>14754755
Cheese got mold, people eat that

>>14758312
>just eat one of nature's most potent carcinogens bro
Not today, Mr. Moldsteinbergowitz

Mold is just dust. I eat it all the time when it forms on bread.

>>14754755
What the fuck is with americans calling food "products"
I fucking hate it and it makes me cringe

>>14754944
Cool.

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>>14758398
Would you prefer “produce”

>>14758398
The items are products of the food industry. IFood products. Like how you're the product of alcohol intake while in the womb.

>>14754755
your, skin, mouth, nose, ahnus, all the food you have, the air, door handles are covered in it or spores.

>>14755979
i've got a mold phobia and this is fucking cursed