Very out of date cheese tips for engineering loners.

[@Vidar_Odinson]

Oh no, the moldy cheese has gone off

[@florascent9ts]

Connor Hill I feel that that's not how mold works. That "other mold" would be competing for the same resources as the original mold and would likely not grow in the first place

[@Vidar_Odinson]

It's called "being facetious on the internet" I think

[@MazeFrame]

+Sen Flores The day you have your magical cheese figured out, hit me up so I can get a piece!

[@covishen]

I wouldn't think old Stilton would be ok to eat. It's a moldy cheese to start with.

[@covishen]

I just did an internet search and the consensus for Stilton is that it doesn't go bad until it starts to become sentient. Until then it just develops a stronger smell and taste.

[@tomwes8390]

I got to admit I am kind of getting addicted to the clive food/drink videos

[@skepticinall]

Koning Willem-Alexander same for sure

[@thobiex]

Quality mastication!

[@134StormShadow]

Slightly dubious but worth eating.... Clive, love you, you're nuts 🤣🤣🤣

[@AtomicShrimp]

It looks wonderful. I buy cheese in January (reduced after Christmas overstocking) and save it until the following Christmas - it's cheese - 'gone off' is a designed-in feature.

[@MotherSoren]

hidden atomicshrinp scriptures 🤯

[@doctorcraptonicus7941]

My granma always said the way to remember if cheese is good is - "solid & smells sweet - good to eat, - resembles a lepers feet - probably just as good to eat"...mind you, she died of food poisoning.

[@gustavvasa8757]

Doctor Craptonicus Im so sorry for your loss 😭😭😭😭

[@doctorcraptonicus7941]

It's OK, she was past her sell-by date anyway.

[@wolfcaliburRX]

Best before end?

[@AnthonyAshcroft]

More bachelor tips for engineers please

[@CraftQueenJr]

Anthony Ashcroft they are amazingly funny.

[@OhShitSeriously]

Make a hobby of cleaning.

[@DevonPalmer98]

Sixth months out of date, ashens laughs at this weak cheese

[@bigclivedotcom]

It is a bit young by Ashen's standards.

[@JasTheOne2]

B.L. Alley at least

[@herrpez]

Oh, please. Check out Steve1989 instead, he eats properly aged food. ;D

[@Bready_Player_Bun]

in 10 years Ashens will have a video titled "Ten and a half year out of date cheese recovered from Clive's bin"

[@KirbyMario12345_939]

Stuart Ashen also came across 180-year-old olives. Smartly though, he didn't taste them because they'd likely have killed him.

[@comradegeneralvladimirpoot1313]

It is only a matter of time before Ashens and BigClive merge into one mega British tat channel that will dominate KZbin.

[@teebosaurusyou]

First Vid - the PARTY SIZED 'Japanese Fanny Flambeaux doll' with WW1 runny cheese, Polish Vodka!

[@rjolly87]

I'm a bit disappointed you didn't map out a circuitry diagram on this one...

[@bebopBiGsHoT]

He has made a brewing video which shows the fermentation process , that same science is applied to cheese and vodka_

[@greenaum]

He's mapped out a circuit diagram on his toilet... [actually I was thinking you could say he'd mapped out a circuit diagram in his pants, which do you think would have been funnier?]

[@wdavem]

Or a flow diagram

[@macf4426]

His toilet will be on a trickle charge.

[@teebosaurusyou]

G.I. Tract diagrams are for people that don't understand the insight, power and wisdom of DRINK!

[@DrewDawkins]

I love hearing Ashens being mentioned here and Big Clive mentioned there.

[@greenaum]

Ashens gets on my sodding nerves. He's so smug and insincere. You know like Harry Enfield's DJs? It's like he seems obliged to make a joke every 1.5 seconds, except he can't actually think of any. Every moment is sort-of-joke followed by failed joke followed by weak attempt at levity. Just let it go, man. Let it come to you naturally. But he doesn't, so his videos are desperate and unfunny. The bloke claims to be a psychiatrist, which really makes me worry for his poor patients.

[@TheTetrapod]

+greenaum I've been watching him for 10 years, so my bias may show a bit here, but I completely disagree. His videos consistently hit my sweet spot for dry comedy, and I generally find his videos interesting. Also, I'm pretty sure he's been a pro youtuber for most of those 10 years, so I doubt he's seeing many patients.

[@MrSadface]

greenaum he has a doctorate in *psychology* and has claimed never to have made a penny from his actual degree.

[@muh1h1]

"i am very very good at terrible ideas" :D

[@crimsonhalo13]

This cheese pairs exceptionally well with a glass of methylated spirits.

[@5roundsrapid263]

Crimson Halo The methanol will definitely kill the germs.

[@stonent]

And your vision!

[@GlasgowGallus]

Crimson Halo Mmm, tasty...

[@PinkAgaricus]

@@stonent ...and the person themselves who drank it as well. (possibly)

[@lmb4967]

*nyom* *nyom* this is a terrible idea *nyom*

[@lemmonsinmyeyes]

I'm watching a dude unbox modly cheese on the internet. What is my life.

[@tookitogo]

lemmonsinmyeyes Best comment ever.

[@antichrist6668]

lemmonsinmyeyes it's supposed to be

[@SianaGearz]

Can't be that bad, can it. Imagine unboxing mouldy cheese yourself because that's the only food item you have remaining, and having no Internet to keep you distracted while you take in the smell and the suspiciously moist and crumbly texture and contemplate whether the cheese or the exhaustion and starvation will kill you first.

[@AttilaAsztalos]

Wrong. You're picking up valuable tips for justifying drinking. You can't put a price on those...!

[@sarahvenus883]

Better than TV.....lol

[@EpicLPer]

Hey looky it's Big Ashens again!

[@ProfessorYana]

EpicLPer If your cheese is black, you are in cheese trouble!

[@wilhobbs207]

Not enough random hand movements.

[@frykasj]

An excellent comment

[@phils4634]

He has the "right technique" after all! Great sound effects too! (Incidentally very old cheeses can taste great, providing there's not obvious "fur coat" phenomenon :-) )

[@themrenerd7384]

*_Big Ashens with the Brown Workbench returns!_*

[@rtesimpson]

Supermarkets in the US have been instructed not to sell shredded cheese in order to make America grate again.

[@BBC600]

Rob Simpson You made my day! Thanks. :-)

[@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154]

Americans can't make cheese

[@rtesimpson]

thehappylittlefox aka benji True...they buy it all from the UK...

[@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154]

is that a fact? they even have something called imitation American cheese !

[@stumbling]

That was terrible. Thumbs up.

[@MattTester]

I'm loving the Big Clive/Ashens crossover this week. I think you should adopt his scissor wielding technique when cutting cables. Also if you happen to be flying over the midlands please don't flush!

[@stridermt2k]

Matt Tester Damn straight... to all!

[@brothyr]

ashens? DanNerdCubed's Christmas buddy?

[@niamaru2]

Matt Tester and should shout "unacceptable" !! as he does lol

[@jeremyf9592]

Matt Tester my thoughts exactly

[@lorenhusky2717]

Snippity snippity snippity!

[@spikeydapikey1483]

I'm so glad that smellyvision never took off!!

[@Mrflash222006]

Spikey DaPikey Apple have the worldwide patent on it !!!

[@peterlindsey4178]

I accidentally farted just as he was slicing through the cellophane. Big mistake.

+AvE already has Smelloscope. He will prototype hydraulic smellovision soon enough.

[@m2mm4m]

... And thats just for his feet...

[@dimitar4y]

I DEMAND AN UPDATE VIDEO XD

[@kurenaitsuki]

THIS!

[@dimitar4y]

after all, we must have the .. ahem.. scientific conclusions of this.. scientific test!

[@johnsweda2999]

Alucard Pawpad what on the toilet

[@greenaum]

You'll get your update when Clive gets off the toilet.

[@Mrflash222006]

Stilton is strong enough as it is but that's so mature it has its bus pass and pension book. . . Still nothing like the French cheese that walks across the table. . . Next crossover - Big Clive does ichiban moto

[@newburypi]

Possibly one of the very best bigclivedotcom videos. So many thanks to you.

[@DCVertigo]

Total setup! Ashens went all Big Clive and Big Clive went all Ashens on the same day ... hmmmmm

[@elmikeomysterio5496]

you should make a mini couch out of bits and bobs from questionable Chinese electronics and make this a sporadically occuring segment.

[@Big_Loo]

The couch would probably be live at mains voltage and explode as soon as someone sat on it...I'm not really sure.

[@BackPainGarage]

"i wonder what the capacity of the toilet will be, on the airline tomorrow" am i the only one who laughed just a wee bit too hard on that one? keep up the good work Clive.

[@ZaneDaMagicPufferDragon]

So, follow up video on your bout of Food Poisoning???

[@bigclivedotcom]

Minor squits, but nothing major.

[@nickmiller9537]

bigclivedotcom oh Jesus.. squirts are the worst

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

no john it does not ,but bacteria attacking your insides will make it clean itself out ,its natural action of the gut

[@AlexTheAverageKid]

I've never had proper vomit-inducing stomach-cramping food poisoning before (touch wood.. and I'm 24 so I feel lucky haha) - but I think the minor squits might just be a placebo effect of you THINKING that you have food poisoning.. at least that's what happens to me if I convince myself that I've eaten something dodgy.. but I'm no biologist the booze is a good tip though - it's also why sailors used to dilute their drinking water with rum so it would last longer out at sea. It's called grog

[@LesKing72]

AlexTheAverageKid hell, I get an upset stomach whenever I eat out. I think its the copious amounts of ketchup

[@willybee3056]

OOPS ,, It is funny how people confuse , " best before" with "bad after". It is no doubt a device to protect the producer. But it also causes people to buy more. But do you ever see anyone throw out old wine or whiskey ? Or how about money,, They say, if you haven't used it in a year, throw it out... Ooo,, maybe we should do that with politicians ..... tanx and keep up the good work. .....

[@Fridelain]

>Or how about money,, -Inflation currency- Bearer cheques often has a use by date. blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/files/2009/04/zim.jpg

[@NevilleStyke]

I used to be a milkman and we often had stilton left over from Xmas, given away almost free, six months out of code. It had been stored in a fridge and was a bit sweated but I ate and enjoyed loads of it.

[@alanreader4815]

Your going to be pebble dashing something tomorrow clive. Set the loo to withstand jet spray mode. LOL

[@bigclivedotcom]

There was a bit of pebble dashing afterwards.

[@Nicolai0Nerland]

Oh dear.

[@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154]

oh dear not what we wanted to hear hope you have a full harness seat belt attached to your loo

[@yup-nope-yep]

I would like to point out that all the things BigClive says is scientifically approved! ⚠️🎇

[@Legion563]

And now Big Clive is doing an AshenS food taste test the day after Stuart did his 'attempt' at reviewing multiple charger cables.......CONSPIRACY!!!!! Edit, holy shit Clive, that cheese chunk you munched was huge...you nutter.

[@thedirtboy1249]

Can't wait for the follow up video to this.......

[@artemisrumbinger4012]

Are you and Ashens confused again? He was testing charger cables the other day.

[@loneiidev]

You can drink on container shops when not working, there is a shop with very limited stock that sells inexpensive booze! You can actually go on holiday on a container ship, costs a lot though, and is a very long trip with no doctor on board. They limit number of people on board, as over a certain amount they are required to have a doctor on.

[@BerndFelsche]

11 hours is about as long as it takes for food poisoning to "mature".

[@keithvers569]

Decided to have a large double just in case I didn't cook my dinner properly. Good advice. Love your channel.

[@souperman72]

This is what I subscribed for.

[@GFINHK]

Brilliant video to watch after a horrendous day I've had. Have me a few chuckles. Thanks Clive.

[@mrbobbybtv]

Once got sick from the chicken on a BBQ that was quite raw, weird thing is i was totally wasted from half a bottle of rum so that's weird..

[@Kandy96]

SKORPION 15 I think you were probably sick from the rum.

[@mrbobbybtv]

Christian Andrews never had a stomach ache for 2 days from rum hmm..

[@olafmuller4506]

SKORPION 15 you had once, remember that BBQ?

[@mrbobbybtv]

Olaf Müller congratulations, you made me blow air out of my nose a little harder then usual

[@BlackSuneEmpire]

I have a rustlers chicken "sub" that is 4 years out of date and never been refrigerated and it still looks completely normal to the point its the same as the day I bought it (it was also reduced due to the sell by date being within soon). I know it's not quite the same, but worth mentioning.

[@kd5byb]

Many years ago, my wife and I bought a large block of feta cheese at the local warehouse club store. (I think it was Sams Club.) Because we didn't need it right away, it went into the freezer where we forgot about it. About a year later, we found it in the freezer and my wife wanted to throw it away. I refused! Much to my wife's horror, I defrosted it and ate it over the next few weeks with no ill effects. My wife started calling it "scary feta." That stilton most certainly qualifies as "scary stliton." :)

[@wisher21uk]

curd of died mate :p

[@kd5byb]

hahahahaha that's awesome!

[@markiangooley]

kd5byb mind you, I buy the Bulgarian sheep-milk feta sold in brine-filled plastic tubs and it keeps very well in the fridge unopened and surprisingly well after opening.

[@andreim841]

kd5byb - if it was frozen then you can eat away, no worries. We have sheep cheese for over 2 years frozen solid and it's still good to eat.

[@MrVanioko]

cheesus christ im glad you are ok

[@gonzo_the_great1675]

Forces friends used to sware by the full fat red cans of coke. The search and rescue boys used to keep some in the helicopter and drink one when they had been in the water. in case they were in sea where there was sewerage. Also helps if you've got a bit of a head and stomach the next morning, after a heavy night out. The acidity in coke helps get the stomach ph somewhere closer to right, after you've spent a happy hour with your head down the loo.

[@seanflanagan5674]

I think that you wasted some delicious cheese - it being cheese means it was already spoiled, and the strong odor means, as you anticipated, that it had gotten better. That being said, eating cheese is always a good time to have a drink. (I can't speak to Polish vodka, but I dearly love my Irish rye, so I'll have to see if I can sample it here.)

[@nokomarie1963]

Not when it tastes and smells like urine, just say'n.

[@Kamtar34]

Sean Flanagan this isnt how this stuff works. There is difference between controled environment and purposely adding proper milk/cheeses cultures and letting it rot in fridge.

[@ThumpertTheFascistCottontail]

Nokomarie How do you know what urine tastes like? :D

[@0LoneTech]

This cheese was still in a controlled environment though; refrigerated and sealed. The nice thing about cheeses with their own mold culture is that they tend to outcompete whatever culture tries to invade.

[@MrSwanley]

I'm pretty sure that stuff about controlled environment is not true. Yes, modern commercial cheeses may be more controlled, but that's mostly in order to maintain consistency: and ok, a business also has to worry about lawsuits if someone gets sick. However the traditional way of making any similar cheese was simply to let it be attacked by whatever random pathogens happens to be passing by (ditto yogurt, ditto sourbread etc). The fungus gets the outer shell and you get the protected inner bit. Your nose tells you if the latter is edible. Trust your nose - in part that's why you have one. Of course over time it came to be known that cheeses from certain regions had a particularly attractive taste, and that's the main reason we identify and culture those particular bacterial/fungal strains. People over the last century were real pantywaists when it came to bacteria and fungus. Happily that does seem to be changing as people learn that not every germ is the black plague.

[@AskMeWhen]

Love how no matter what the content, his format stays the same.

[@admiralbiscuit9608]

If you've still got some glitter pills left, now's the time to take some!

[@greenaum]

Yeah I think glitter pills added to food poisoning is just gonna end up looking depressing and horrible. He'll be close enough to puking as it is. I suppose if he needs to give his stomach that final push, he might try doing that then looking at the result.

[@mysock351C]

The hard alcohol works as it drives up acidity in the stomach as well, a double-bonus. And yes I do the same thing since I'm an "adventurous" eater.

[@zh84]

Having been a British child in the 1970s, I was put off Stilton by Bagpuss.

[@jongillespie2276]

zh84 having been a British child brought up in the 90's I was put off stiltion by its smell, look and the reactions of people eating it... guess it's true that 70's kids and the 90's kids are different after all

[@jongillespie2276]

JP Robson id rather eat corned beef hash out of the British army ration packs that are out of date... for the rest of my life than try stilton again. My gran loved it and would try all the time to get me to eat it cause she knew I liked cheese but na not for me. be happy about that, cause it means more cheese for the people that do like it.

[@greenaum]

Watching Bagpuss I'm put off filth and germs in general. Did they never clean that shop? Was _everything_ filthy in the 1970s? Everyone's hair looked greasy, their skin sweaty, their clothes horrible and greasy. Just looks like a filthy, smelly, unhygeinic decade. No wonder everyone in the '80s looked so fresh and well-groomed. Kylie, Jason, Rick Astley, New Kids On The Block, all looked like they'd stepped straight out of the shower, on their way to another shower. Please excuse the lame cultural references, I was a kid at the time, so it's them or Dangermouse. Or Button Moon I suppose, whose bodies were literally bottles of bleach and washing up liquid. Bet that'd get them banned nowadays, probably a good idea.

[@andypughtube]

I have some "Country Life" butter-like spread in my fridge. It is emergency-use only because they brought me the unsalted variant by mistake. Interestingly you can no-longer really tell that it is unsalted. It has a best-before of March 2010.

[@MagikGimp]

You even make the same anime sound as Ashens does when eating.

[@bradleymorgan8223]

MagikGimp i was disgusted when he just kept eating it..

[@thalivenom4972]

you mean chewing, or GUNDAM -STYLE EXPLOSIONS?

[@MagikGimp]

nom nom KA-BOOM!

[@mikebell2112]

Seems to be a British thing.

[@stridermt2k]

Well now, I love Ashens and I love Big Clive and they referenced each other in the same week. I'm tickled pink like a Death Dalek that's eaten an old jelly bean! These are good times indeed. Best of luck on your flight, Clive! Send video! hehe

[@Tresbizzy]

You're fine. As long as it's not too fuzzy or trying to crawl away on its own it's good. Even then, as long as it's moving slow enough to catch it it's probably fine. That said, your theories about alcohol or preservatives preventing food poisoning are anecdotal bollocks.

[@chewbacca5986]

Big Clive you bloody humorous bloke! I don't know why I love you, but I do ! ♥️

[@rjanderson4207]

Ashens was talking about you on his channel. I think you need to teach him a bit about electronics. To be fair I was subscribed to you before I subscribed to ashens, and you have taught me so much about electronics.

[@Subgunman]

Am I to assume that Stilton that is still uncut and in a wheel can sit on a shelf for a longer period of time as long as its kept at the proper temperature? The French are notorious as to eating stinky well ripened cheese. They have a saying that it "smells like the feet of angels".

[@hgbugalou]

Can I skip the cheese and just shoot the vodka?

[@peckelhaze6934]

I live alone and have the same problem. I now get around it by vacuum sealing cheese and the like and it lasts a lot, lot longer.I even freeze cheese and it is as good as the day it went in. Stilton is one of the best.

[@AdrianTechWizard]

I wouldn't describe you as a loner. If not friends, you are just shy of 300,000 close admirers! On the other hand, I'm a loner with a piss-ant sub count who's too awkward to handle phone conversations. Clive has fostered the biggest assortment of loners on small group of islands we call the UK. [And the insignificant English speaking countries like the United States of America or Aussieland.]

[@bigclivedotcom]

I hate phone conversations. I think most tech-heads do.

[@fixman88]

I don't mind talking on the phone, in fact sometimes I prefer talking to an actual human being, but I usually text because it's quicker and the recipient can read it at their leisure.

[@iagmusicandflying]

As an American, I resent that. We haven't spoken proper English for CENTURIES. :D

[@iagmusicandflying]

I think we resent it (well *I* do anyway) because of its synchronous nature. I don't mind getting called too much, but I hate calling because it feels to me like "Hey, drop whatever it is you're doing and talk to MEEEE because I'm the most important thing in your life." I usually schedule phone calls, or call only in an emergency.

[@michahalczuk9071]

Moldy cheese doesn't _go off_ unless it's attacked by mold that is poisonous or toxic. The best before date is there to sell the product with taste that was originally intended, otherwise it might be too strong for some people to eat. Good tip is to use this very strong cheese as a condiment for things like cheese sauce - the stronger the cheese, the more umami flavour it has, which is pretty good. Cheers.

[@rinyzk]

It's kind of moist inside...

[@ToonOfLancing]

When we last moved house we found a Stilton that was over four years beyond the 'best by' date and it tasted super!

[@gustavvasa8757]

i Love your food and drink videos!!!! please make more

[@AlejandroBosque]

Thank you Clive for the tip! And Salud!

[@splo1nger909]

Wet cheese delirium.

[@l3p3]

Today, I would not eat cheese or chicken due educational progress, but a few years ago, I was in switzerland and bought a piece of random cheese. I left it uncooled for a week in my hotel room (there was no fridge) and then took it with me back to west germany. I placed it in a fridge there and a few days later, I was forced to either eat or dump it. So I ate and I was really surprised how well it still tasted. And I had no problems afterwards.

[@vizionthing]

tbf this shit comes moldy from the get go.

[@AttilaAsztalos]

Hmmm, maybe we should define an arbitrary cut-off point, like "when it stops being moldy cheese and starts being cheesy mold"...?

[@gordonlawrence3537]

I worked in France for a bit round Toulouse. There was a particular bistro (not actually a restaurant technically apparently, though buggered if I know the difference) where the cheese board was considered "lively". I used to wonder if some of them were so lively they needed nailing down to stop them attacking the other cheeses.

[@1q2w3e1z2x3c]

Dubious Cheese sounds like a mid 80s punk rock band.

[@guyfawkes9951]

I think I saw them open for The Replacements...

[@D3vourmysoul]

Loving that ashens shouted you out yesterday and you're shouting him out today! lol

[@adnamamedia]

"doesn't look too bad" _covered in mold_

[@ΑΡΗΣΚΟΡΝΑΡΑΚΗΣ]

Alex W the crew of Georgios Averof mutinied due to that cheese

[@iagmusicandflying]

In fairness, it's a blue cheese and it has mold in/on it by design.

[@TurboTel68]

I was told this tip many years ago by a Polish friend and it saved me from food poisoning earlier this year on holiday. I had a great time whilst everyone else who'd eaten in the same restaurant spent the week with the shits

[@FurrBeard]

Ugh... not a fan of stinky, fungus-infested cheese. (I'm happy with pedestrian things like sharp cheddar.)

[@OAleathaO]

I agree...I'll stick to things like sharp cheddar, provolone, mozzarella & (if I have nothing else) American cheese. I can't even stand the taste of a mild moldy cheese like blue cheese. :)

[@FurrBeard]

Secant Ogive I know I'm not eating something where the smell turns my stomach.

[@OrangeCat__]

blue cheese is delicious.

[@DonnaPinciot]

I've tried moldy cheese before, but was never a fan of the mushroomy flavour it had. Aside from that, I enjoy it.

[@The45thClown]

Fungus? It's cheese mites you really don't want to google ... DON'T DO IT!!

[@regstarr3430]

We shall wait to see if there are any more videos forthcoming...

[@LakeNipissing]

Stilton is so rancid, it can't get any worse. Hope you didn't spend the entire flight on the toilet!!!

[@salerio61]

From another singleton in the engineering community, it's the plastic wot does it. Get it out right away and wrap in waxy paper. I love mature cheese ... ps. it also freezes well. I kept some really good stilton from christmas (not frozen) for when my mate came up .. we had it this past weekend, it was amazing - we need to meet up a bit more often

[@entity8019]

If there isn't a news article later today about a plane making a U-turn because Big Clive artexed the entirety of the toilet with his arse then I'll be slightly disappointed. Not that I actually wish such a thing to happen because I am a fan, but it'd give me a right old chuckle. Safe trip and all that.

Local cheese producer once told me that cheese does not go bad. Just trim it off and it should be good for consumption. But that was probably concerning a bit harder cheeses.

[@seannot-telling9806]

I have heard the same thing about a strong drink and raw oysters. Seems that when raw oysters are bad and make people sick the ones that did not get sick were the ones that had few strong drinks with the oysters.

[@molletts]

How topical. I just finished off some out-of-date St.-Marcellin. It was only one month out of date, though. It still wasn't ripe, either - I could cut it rather than having to spoon it out of the little terracotta dish as they do in France. Maybe I'll have to not keep it in the fridge next time... I've always said of these short dates that they have on cheese: it's been sitting in a cave somewhere for the last umpteen months - why do I need to eat it within 3 days?

[@danielmolineux3644]

Big Clive thank your for your videos. You have my housemates asking why I'm laughing whilst taking a poo. But seriously you make the internet and peoples lives a little better with your videos, thank you man. Ps I'm drunk.

[@DerekHarkness]

Last night I had some Philadelphia Cream Cheese that had been in my fridge for a year, unopened and 6 months past its date. I used it to cook lasagna. It was fine and I am fine. However, other Philadelphia packs, opened, have gone off in days. Parmigiano keeps forever - it's at least 2 years old when you buy it. Two years ago, my friend Vik and I started making our own cheeses. A little fiddly and finickety at first but worth the effort once we got the hang of it.

[@MOOTech]

Admittedly I have also given eaten cheese that was probably a bit old. Although only touched the center and basically did what you did and threw it out quickly. I don't recall getting sick from it though.

[@Cadwaladr]

Speaking of aged dairy products, have you heard of the butter that they occasionally find buried in peat bogs? Thousands of years old, and it is still perfectly edible, if a bit cheesy. I'd quite like to try some of that one day.

[@locouk]

I like to buy mature or extra mature from the reduced rack, after about 6 months it's ready to open. Salt crystals form on and in the cheese which makes it even better. The way I see it, cheese used to be a way of preserving milk so you can't really go wrong.

[@_Piers_]

At Christmas you can buy small waxed truckles of cheese in all the supermarkets. I particularly like the Wensleydale with ginger, so I bought​ a few. They're covered in white wax or as I will now refer to it as fridge camouflage. It sat there (hiding in plain site) for 14months. The anticlimactic end to this story, is that even though it was out of date by a full year when i ate it. It was entirely unchanged. Wax is pretty good at it's​ job!

[@questioneverything6860]

I recently ate some goat's cheese that was over a month after the use-by date. It was very soft (easily spreadable), delicious and flavoursome. I would generally eat Stilton or any hard cheese of any age. However, I won't eat it if it gets up and runs away. Toasted Camembert smells rank, but is quite delicious.

[@dazzjh40]

Given that most cheese matures for years it is amazing how it goes out of date in a few weeks.

[@magellanicraincloud]

The bit about not being able to overfill a drink when Scottish. reminded me of that episode of Garth Marenghis DarkPlace, when he says that "The Scotch" want what the English have, one of the listed things being sobriety.

[@AverageJoe2020]

Not news to me Clive, I did some wiring work for a chap who is now a millionaire from (amongst other things) selling out of date cheese at town markets, How did he do it?, Re- cutting, Cut off the outside and wrapping with a new date. J. ( I have one other anecdote about him, but not for a public platform!)

[@MikkoPaakkola]

Last time I was on a cruise ship, the people drinking lots of vodka didn't show up to breakfast at all. And some of them had thrown up most of what they had eaten. I don't think anyone got food poisoning though.

[@davidperry7676]

it depends on the companies but most companies allow drinking on containers if your on watch you can be breathalyzed randomly.

[@DavidBoycePiano]

Who was the music hall comedian who quipped "Take your feet off the table father, and give the cheese a chance"? I forget. In making the famous film The African Queen it was said that everyone got very ill during the Botswana filming, because a filter was damaged or missing from the pump that supplied the river water, which was full of hippo poo. But director John Huston and actor Humphrey Bogart apparently stayed OK, because instead of drinking the water, they were only drinking bottles of spirits.

[@petti78]

Last dates on cheese is primarily determined on the way the taste changes over time, nothing to do with edibility.

[@fibrodad1354]

The UK Merchant Navy run virtually dry ships now. Not many of us left. We used to be able to stay drunk for weeks or months at sea lol.

[@dca24100]

I'm liking this new series.

[@WaltonPete]

Clive, You're so classy with your plastic shot glass! 😉 Considering nearly all cheese is left to mature in a cool place to develop its flavour I doubt there's much likelihood of doing any serious harm. The fact that the cheese was sealed in its original packaging should minimise the risk of contamination from harmful bacteria as the lacto-bacillae will likely reduce, or prevent, the propagation of any such nasties. After all, cheese is one of the ways that we've learnt to naturally preserve milk and ensure that it will continue to be edible long past it would have gone sour.

[@mattinman8285]

We need a follow up video! Explosive diarrhea on a plane is probably one of the worst things to have to deal with.

[@Carnology]

Yessss Ashens & Clive!

[@FrontSideBus]

Extra mature Cheddar has been sat on a shelf for 15 months before It goes on sale anyway! Nothing wrong with letting it mature for a few more. I'm one of those people who enjoys very stiff drinks on cruise ships... The last time I did a trans-Atlantic on Queen Mary 2 I think I was in various stages of drunkenness for the entire voyage!

[@Forssa1]

Life is like Big Clive's KZbin channel. You never know what you're gonna get.

[@Radio.Raptor]

Alcohol against food poisoning seems like a good home remedy in my book! I have some experience in using a vodka as an anti-bacterial/mold agent when I juiced some rhubarb. That worked quite good even in small concentrations.

[@RidingFromDawn2Dusk]

Oh Clive... I once had undercooked chicken off the BBQ 12 hours before a flight from Auckland NZ to Calgary Canada. Let's say the moment I walked through the door on the plane I was producing all sorts of unpleasant liquids from both ends of my body. To make things worse the flight was delayed and I kept missing connections... So 23 hours on planes and airports with that level of food poisoning was not good! I even had to run to the loo 3 times at Canadian customs... I bet that looked suspicious

[@PhiloYT1]

First the S&M Bridge Rectumfier from a few months ago, then Exploding Triffids and now Weaponized Stilton. The man's a born daredevil.