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fishlessman
fishlessman Posts: 34,583
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never had one stink so bad, pure ammonia, how do you avoid that or is it just luck of the draw
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    May be luck of the draw. Have never had that problem . Baked a brie en croute this weekend and it was fine. 


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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,583
    caliking said:
    May be luck of the draw. Have never had that problem . Baked a brie en croute this weekend and it was fine. 

    ive never had the problem either, was a different brand than usual.  did the pastry wrap with walnuts bourbon, brown sugar, honey. ive done maybe 50 brie over the last few years, never had this happen, it smelled on my hands for 2 days. usually get the president brie, this time it was this one, ended up tossing it


    fukahwee maine

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  • EggObsessed
    EggObsessed Posts: 786
    I've had the ammonia smell happen several times.  It usually happens when I buy too big of a piece at Costco and the ammonia smell happens as it gets older. It's always fine, and smells good, when I open it, but over time, it goes bad.  I, myself, never will eat it once it gets the ammonia smell.  I can't imagine that that could be healthy.

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  • Thatgrimguy
    Thatgrimguy Posts: 4,738
    caliking said:
    May be luck of the draw. Have never had that problem . Baked a brie en croute this weekend and it was fine. 

    Never knew there was a fancy name for Baked Brie. gotta love when you think you have a unique recipe then find out the actual name and that ****'s all over the internet!! Oh well. Still delicious even if my mama didn't invent it!
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  • Eoin
    Eoin Posts: 4,304
    fishlessman said:
    caliking said:
    May be luck of the draw. Have never had that problem . Baked a brie en croute this weekend and it was fine. 

    ive never had the problem either, was a different brand than usual.  did the pastry wrap with walnuts bourbon, brown sugar, honey. ive done maybe 50 brie over the last few years, never had this happen, it smelled on my hands for 2 days. usually get the president brie, this time it was this one, ended up tossing it


    President is very mild by French Brie standards. This one is goat, explaining the stronger aroma. Goat's cheese can stink really badly.
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/8739-ammonia-odors-in-cheese

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,583
    Eoin said:
    fishlessman said:
    caliking said:
    May be luck of the draw. Have never had that problem . Baked a brie en croute this weekend and it was fine. 

    ive never had the problem either, was a different brand than usual.  did the pastry wrap with walnuts bourbon, brown sugar, honey. ive done maybe 50 brie over the last few years, never had this happen, it smelled on my hands for 2 days. usually get the president brie, this time it was this one, ended up tossing it


    President is very mild by French Brie standards. This one is goat, explaining the stronger aroma. Goat's cheese can stink really badly.
    im usually good with the stinky cheeses, this one was on sale, i bought 2, not sure what to do with the other one. something went wrong with this one, it was a pure concentrated chemical smell
    fukahwee maine

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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    The goat can get funky for sure. Could be a combo of goat and age but goat is stinkier than cow on day 1. 
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,583


    The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
    The goat can get funky for sure. Could be a combo of goat and age but goat is stinkier than cow on day 1. 
    ive eaten plenty of goat cheese, as bad as the smell was, the taste was even worse. my old moldy gym socks would have tasted better =)  i wish i took a better look, my kitchen lights are not working right now, just two under counter lights
    fukahwee maine

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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    Thatgrimguy said:
    caliking said:
    May be luck of the draw. Have never had that problem . Baked a brie en croute this weekend and it was fine. 

    Never knew there was a fancy name for Baked Brie. gotta love when you think you have a unique recipe then find out the actual name and that ****'s all over the internet!! Oh well. Still delicious even if my mama didn't invent it!
    If it makes you feel better, your recent thread is what inspired me to make it again. Used fillo dough though, because that's what SWBO bought. 

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Don't store brie in your pants, it should be refrigerated.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,583
    nolaegghead said:
    Don't store brie in your pants, it should be refrigerated.
    but my undies were clean, my momma always told me to wear clean ones, you just never know. this brie smelt more like your mammas undies =)
    fukahwee maine

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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,727
    nolaegghead said:
    Don't store brie in your pants, it should be refrigerated.
    I don’t think storage was the goal here so much as use:


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  • gdenby
    gdenby Posts: 6,239
    It is not just brie that does this, but also other "bloomy" soft ripened cheeses. If they are stored in a wrapping that does not let them breath, the ammonia making process accelerates till the cheese is unedible.  I had a couple of fine US artisanal disks of brie like cheese. The 1st one was fine. Left the other 2 wrapped for maybe 9 months. Complete garbage. I suppose if I had un-packaged those, and kept them for maybe 4 - 6 weeks, they might have been as good as the 1st.

    FWIW, I've never had this problem w. Camembert. The disks go dry with time, but I've never noticed ammonia from them. Or maybe the brands I've bought are wrapped so that they do breathe.


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  • NPHuskerFL
    NPHuskerFL Posts: 17,629
    JohnInCarolina said:
    nolaegghead said:
    Don't store brie in your pants, it should be refrigerated.
    I don’t think storage was the goal here so much as use:

    We'll just say you ate it.


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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    http://www.johneatscheese.com/blog/2014/02/16/brie-smells-like-ammonia/
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  • stv8r
    stv8r Posts: 1,127
    nolaegghead said:
    http://www.johneatscheese.com/blog/2014/02/16/brie-smells-like-ammonia/
    Good info.  Thanks
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  • SmokingPiney
    SmokingPiney Posts: 2,319
    edited February 2018
    I love Brie, and have never been knocked down by ammonia funk. 

    Brie can get funky, expectantly so, but not to the point that it's repugnant. 

    Bad batch? 
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  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    Sounds like you got some stanky brie.  Did you buy it in a particularly bad part of town on a particularly bad street corner?
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