Two of my three bandaged cheeses have some pretty dark blue mold growing on them. According to my mom who had blue mold problems in the past, she says they smell like blue cheese, too.. does this mean I got blue cheese, like it or not?
My third bandaged cheese looks more like I would've expected them all to look like at this point - a variety of colors, but mostly brown (though also has a little blue, but not like the others).
OH - and I noticed what looks like a tinge of pink (or purplish) mold on one of them?? What am I in for?
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Blue mold comes in different strains with colours typically in my experience from green-blue to turquoise to blue but not dark blue, picture would help.
That said if it also smells like blue cheese then you have a strain of P. roqueforti. To get real blue cheese you normally need to have voids or gaps in the pate of your cheese in which blue mold grows. For your cheese you could brush and wash off the blue mold and rub down with vinegar and salt to clean your rind after which you should lose the blue smell and taste blue taste.
Don't know about the pink or purple, there have been some posts/threads on pink, recommend Search on word Pink.
Also, there's a Wiki: Surface Defects, Mold (https://cheeseforum.org/articles/wiki/) article that should be of some use.