hi
I m house sitting for a fellow batchelor whose gone away for a couple
of weeks to Portugal/ the lucky sod.
he asked me to empty fridge of all out of date foods, which is now
done. However in the larder I ve found a jar of blackberry and apple
jelly that has a white surface mold on top. dont really know how old it
is , tho guessing 6 month. can i just remove mold and use for our
consumption. I d be less hesitant with a dense jam , but this is a
wobbly jelly. thanks in anticipation of yr help

In article .com>,
says...
> hi
> I m house sitting for a fellow batchelor whose gone away for a couple
> of weeks to Portugal/ the lucky sod.
> he asked me to empty fridge of all out of date foods, which is now
> done. However in the larder I ve found a jar of blackberry and apple
> jelly that has a white surface mold on top. dont really know how old it
> is , tho guessing 6 month. can i just remove mold and use for our
> consumption. I d be less hesitant with a dense jam , but this is a
> wobbly jelly. thanks in anticipation of yr help
>
>
Since you don't really know what you're dealing with, why risk illness
or some other bad reaction for a bit of free jelly? It might be OK if
you scrape the moldy part off, but then again...

Bob

yetanotherBob wrote:
> In article .com>,
> says...
>
>>hi
>>I m house sitting for a fellow batchelor whose gone away for a couple
>>of weeks to Portugal/ the lucky sod.
>>he asked me to empty fridge of all out of date foods, which is now
>>done. However in the larder I ve found a jar of blackberry and apple
>>jelly that has a white surface mold on top. dont really know how old it
>>is , tho guessing 6 month. can i just remove mold and use for our
>>consumption. I d be less hesitant with a dense jam , but this is a
>>wobbly jelly. thanks in anticipation of yr help
>>
>>
>
> Since you don't really know what you're dealing with, why risk illness
> or some other bad reaction for a bit of free jelly? It might be OK if
> you scrape the moldy part off, but then again...
>
> Bob
Most molds secrete stuff into the jam or jelly. some of that "stuff" is
carcinogenic and some is not. Without knowing what molds you have you
can't tell whether the substance is cancer causing or not. The safest
idea is to chuck the whole thing.
Ellen

thanks to you both, i honestly didnt know the risk. having been brought
up by parents, who experienced lean times in the 20s and 30s,, i find
it hard to throw anything out.

i remember being suprised when a botanical researcher told me that when
a fruit , an apple for example, has just a small part rotten, then that
rotteness/whatever that is, has already permeated the whole apple and
could be detected as such in a lab.

question then, can i read that rotteness is toxicness, and therefore
also potentially carcengenicl, like the molds we ve been talking
about???