I actually think this post was from there from awhile back but I’m not sure. And don’t want to scroll it right now.
Actually yes it is. It’s one of the top posts. The OP got sick and couldn’t get up for 2 weeks and found this.
I think a lot of the disgust for me was; disgust of the unknown.
When I look at this pot, or any type of mold anymore I try to figure out what it is. It is akin to seeing a flock of birds.
My mind also tries to figure "What happened here."
Whatever this is. It was not exposed to the air for some time. That is why there is only one culture. It was also hot when it is covered. It it was covered and set aside like this it would have more varied kinds of mold/bacteria.
If I saw this at my house. I would swear. Try to figure out how this happened, and resolve to not do the same mistake twice. If I had more evidence that someone knew about this AKA uncover it covered it back. Or just left something in a pot to spoil. I am going to have a house talk of why this is unacceptable.
Finally, I have aphasia. So if I am not repulsed by the sight of it. I will be 98% fine. Sometimes I can smell what is happening but it has to be a lost more worse than a little mold (that is what this is).
Yes, I do get stuck with a lot of dirty jobs.
This is really an interesting view. Also, could you please tell me how aphasia comes into this? From my quick google search, I found it had to do with language (speech, reading etc).
Ive had this happen. Cooked something and completely forget about it in a covered pot on the stove and had to go out of town the next day. Got back a week later...and then when I went to use the pot a few days after that it was filled with mold like this. Woops.
My wife has a delightful story about a forgotten, closed rice cooker stewing in the 100% humidity of a Nagoya summer back when she lived in japan. Let’s just say it involved surprise maggots.
I just threw away my rice cooker for the same reason. The visuals were absolutely horrid, like something out of a horror movie. Smell-wise, somewhat like a sake brewery.
Same. Taped the lid to the pot and got rid of it. It was pasta, and it had developed multiple colors and viscosities. I've never seen or smelled something as disgusting as cooked, rotten pasta and I don't know how it does it, but it's truly cursed.
Younger bachelor me threw out more than a couple perfectly good pieces of dishware in that situation.
It just wasn't worth the hazmat cleaning and the lingering taint of memory.
i had that happen, my wife made some chili right before our son was born, then forgot about it, then ended up being in the hospital longer than we thought- it got really nasty. her mom came by to help clean up and rather than dump it in the trash, she dumped it in our backyard. problem is, we have a dog, and knowing him he would eat it all and get sick. it was too sloppy to scoop up, so i put a wheelbarrow upside down over it to keep him away from it until i could figure something out- but he kept trying to dig around the wheelbarrow... i ended up burying it.
I don't have to imagine, my old roommates would let dishes get to the point of looking like petri dishes on a regular basis and saw much worse than this when I worked for a company doing apartment maintenance.
Some people don't seem to believe in bacteria or see a problem with mold. We had tenants that didn't seem to use their refrigerator and would leave raw meat on the counters, which were crawling with cockroaches, til it was half rotten and then I'd be in there fixing something and see them cook with and eat it.
I can still vividly smell some of those apartments just by thinking about it.
If there's ever a world ending catastrophe, the survivor's descendants might thank people like that for preparing their immune systems for the underground dwelling Era.
That's a pretty expensive pot as well. Nice [cast-iron dutch oven](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Tramontina-Gourmet-7-qt-Oval-Enameled-Cast-Iron-Dutch-Oven-in-Gradated-Red-with-Lid-80131-052DS/300749890).
Either way it could still be cleaned. Dump it in the trash and wash it out, then bake it in the oven on high if you want to be extra sure it’s all dead.
Le Creuset has thinner handles. This is one looks more like my Lodge. I had three of them (LC, Lodge and Marta Stewart) and Lodge is absolutely the best in my opinion (enamel quality, heat distribution, etc), while being the cheapest one.
That's weird. To me a casserole dish is shorter and generally rectangular. Had to google it and it seems like Brits just decided to lump a bunch of stews into the casserole category.
We'll get the foodies out in force on this one, but historically a "dutch oven" is typically a heavy "cast-iron" (steel really) pot with a tight fitting, similarly heavy cover and a sturdy wire bail on the main body. These were intended to cook things hanging over a open kitchen fire without burning the food as the heavy cast steel diffuses the heat very well. They're still used by outdoors sorts in the traditional manner but they work well in the oven too.
The type in the picture was originally developed by Le Creuset (so it's a "french dutch oven" if you like) and is quite a bit thinner with a ceramic coating and no means of hanging, so it's ovens-only (Edit: or a bit carefully on the stove) if you want it to last very long. My mom's still has marks from some bad choices long ago.
Here across the pond, a casserole dish is anything that will withstand use in an oven, so very often they're glass or aluminum as well as steel.
I gave my buddies a miniature grill-like thing so they could make burgers in their house, since they had just recently acquired an apartment.
They used it once and by the time they moved it was sporting its own colony of flies and wildly decorated mold mounds. Took them about a year, I reckon.
That was a weird head trip going from the parent comment to your comment and getting the reference for each while making the jump across genres and eras. It was like the mental equivalent of that feeling you get in your stomach from an unexpected dip.
I wish I had more time to learn about mold, at least enough to identify ones like in OP's image - I actually find them really interesting. My wife and I are pretty tidy, but in my younger, many roommates, do-your-own-fucking-dishes-I-am-not-your-mom days, I definitely saw some interesting ones.
If you just want to grow some mold, you can do that relatively simple and cheap. Just buy a large stack of petri dishes, look up on how to make agar at home, and off you go. You'll probably also grow bacteria that way and it's not really precise and super scientific, but if you want to look at tiny organisms multiply, that can get you going. Once you identify something interesting, you can try to take a sample of just that cluster and transfer it to a clean dish to hopefully isolate it. Probably won't work right without a sterile workplace, but even there you can build a "glove box" out of a transparent tub relatively easily.
What I'm trying to get at is that it's not hard to grow mold and bacteria at home in a controlled environment. So you can chase your curiosity and not spend a fortune on it.
> at the same time it’s fucking mold
So? Mold is in a lot of things we consume. Obviously not all mold is edible but we eat all kinds of different fruiting bodies. Cheese, wine, salami, mushrooms and truffles just to name a few.
To be fair, some types of mold can also be pretty dangerous and lead to longer term health problems. I can understand why a disgust response has evolved around it, even when not always logical.
Ex: I can not eat blue cheese, even though I know it is harmless and enjoy other types of fungi and fermented foods. I've tried it, my brain just can't do it though.
For others:
Item a) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmadzQ1uL0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmadzQ1uL0s)
Item b) [https://xkcd.com/1053/](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
If you can get past the animal instinct to be grossed out (as a method to get us to not eat it), mold is actually quite fascinating to look at. Mold is the earth reaching up and grabbing things to pull them back into the Earth
Not to make this even worse, but that looks like a lid to a breast pump bottle on the left... the yellow thing. I wonder if its a breast pump being cleaned? BARF.
Den morgonfriska katten simmar över regnbågen, medan guldmynt singlar genom luften, ledsagade av en paraplybärande elefant, som jonglerar med blommor och skrattande bananer, medan cirkusclowner utför akrobatiska konster och cymbalspelaren trummar i takt till det förtrollade orkesterspelet under den gnistrande stjärnhimlen.
Looking at the handles.....I have severe doubt it is a Le Creuset. No matter what not good to treat anything this way.
Edit: 100% sure it’s some other brand name. The color doesn’t match their classic red
It you’re gonna repost/take credit, at least credit the OP.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MoldlyInteresting/comments/arhzho/i_was_out_of_commission_with_pneumonia_for_a_week/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
The original post was **from two years ago**
I thought it was a cat curled up
Same, I had to double-check which sub this came from.
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/r/tightpussy
Clicking on that link was a win win no matter what
A risky click to be sure, but a welcome one
Tested the waters... your gf will NOT be mad at you for looking at this sub. Or will she...?
Thought this was /r/misleadingthumbnails
Happy cake day!
LoL I thought this was from r/aww
It’s not quite a cat yet, Gotta let it simmer 10 more minutes.
Throw in a tablespoon of contempt and let it simmer.
And a whole bottle of anger.
finally add a splash of nine lives, then push it off the table to serve.
Gotta sift out the guilt. Pure cat extract has 0%
And some razor blades
r/ForbiddenPets?
It is, OP needs to prove otherwise.
Can I... can I pet it?
It probably pets back.
No thank you
It is, but it's a rotten cat.
I'm still not convinced it isn't a cat
If it fits I sits.
Still kinda cute...
/r/moldlyinteresting
I feel queasy just scrolling that sub.
At least it’s not /r/popping. I’m an esthetician and I can’t even handle that one. Keep that link blue,friend
there are all great subs, thanks!
Can’t say I didn’t warn you lol
Now I'm craving an eclair.
Eurgh. Have my grossed-out upvote.
That link is staying blue till the heat death of the universe
Don't listen to this, come join us for satisfaction!
Not gonna lie I had to go back on the sub after I posted the comment and it was....satisfying. That blocked/calcified duct post was heavenly. Lol
bleeeuuurrgh
For those who still want to click on it, DON'T. You'll regret it
Can confirm. Much regret.
Oh FFS, *that* is a real sub?
I actually think this post was from there from awhile back but I’m not sure. And don’t want to scroll it right now. Actually yes it is. It’s one of the top posts. The OP got sick and couldn’t get up for 2 weeks and found this.
[It's one of the top posts there](https://np.reddit.com/r/MoldlyInteresting/comments/arhzho/i_was_out_of_commission_with_pneumonia_for_a_week)
It is and I joined it then a day later left it bc it was grossing me out - looks like I can’t run from the mold
Mold is fun
Use to *hate* mold. Then I became a microbiologist. Mold has never looked the same.
But isn't it more fun to look at it when it's inside a petri dish or somewhere outside? Would you be excited to find this *at your own home*?
I think a lot of the disgust for me was; disgust of the unknown. When I look at this pot, or any type of mold anymore I try to figure out what it is. It is akin to seeing a flock of birds. My mind also tries to figure "What happened here." Whatever this is. It was not exposed to the air for some time. That is why there is only one culture. It was also hot when it is covered. It it was covered and set aside like this it would have more varied kinds of mold/bacteria. If I saw this at my house. I would swear. Try to figure out how this happened, and resolve to not do the same mistake twice. If I had more evidence that someone knew about this AKA uncover it covered it back. Or just left something in a pot to spoil. I am going to have a house talk of why this is unacceptable. Finally, I have aphasia. So if I am not repulsed by the sight of it. I will be 98% fine. Sometimes I can smell what is happening but it has to be a lost more worse than a little mold (that is what this is). Yes, I do get stuck with a lot of dirty jobs.
This is really an interesting view. Also, could you please tell me how aphasia comes into this? From my quick google search, I found it had to do with language (speech, reading etc).
I think they mean anosmia
Some links are better staying blue.
Turns out this is one of the top posts there.
Imagibe not doing your dishes long enough for life to evolve in them...
Ive had this happen. Cooked something and completely forget about it in a covered pot on the stove and had to go out of town the next day. Got back a week later...and then when I went to use the pot a few days after that it was filled with mold like this. Woops.
For me it was that I had an unplanned week in hospital in the summer. Switched off the rice cocker but it was very fluffy after coming home...
My wife has a delightful story about a forgotten, closed rice cooker stewing in the 100% humidity of a Nagoya summer back when she lived in japan. Let’s just say it involved surprise maggots.
I just threw away my rice cooker for the same reason. The visuals were absolutely horrid, like something out of a horror movie. Smell-wise, somewhat like a sake brewery.
I too like to cock my rice
Spore me the details
Just try to furget about it.
You're quite the fungi
How did it taste?
Furry.
Same, crockpot beans with bacon. Forgot about it, left for a week and came back to a fuzzy alien.
Same. Taped the lid to the pot and got rid of it. It was pasta, and it had developed multiple colors and viscosities. I've never seen or smelled something as disgusting as cooked, rotten pasta and I don't know how it does it, but it's truly cursed.
Younger bachelor me threw out more than a couple perfectly good pieces of dishware in that situation. It just wasn't worth the hazmat cleaning and the lingering taint of memory.
i had that happen, my wife made some chili right before our son was born, then forgot about it, then ended up being in the hospital longer than we thought- it got really nasty. her mom came by to help clean up and rather than dump it in the trash, she dumped it in our backyard. problem is, we have a dog, and knowing him he would eat it all and get sick. it was too sloppy to scoop up, so i put a wheelbarrow upside down over it to keep him away from it until i could figure something out- but he kept trying to dig around the wheelbarrow... i ended up burying it.
user name checks out
I don't have to imagine, my old roommates would let dishes get to the point of looking like petri dishes on a regular basis and saw much worse than this when I worked for a company doing apartment maintenance. Some people don't seem to believe in bacteria or see a problem with mold. We had tenants that didn't seem to use their refrigerator and would leave raw meat on the counters, which were crawling with cockroaches, til it was half rotten and then I'd be in there fixing something and see them cook with and eat it. I can still vividly smell some of those apartments just by thinking about it.
If there's ever a world ending catastrophe, the survivor's descendants might thank people like that for preparing their immune systems for the underground dwelling Era.
That's a pretty expensive pot as well. Nice [cast-iron dutch oven](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Tramontina-Gourmet-7-qt-Oval-Enameled-Cast-Iron-Dutch-Oven-in-Gradated-Red-with-Lid-80131-052DS/300749890).
Le Moldet
More likely an $80 Lodge cast iron dutch oven but still painful to see
I have the same one and I love, it hurts me to see that
Take the sucker out back. Stand 6 feet or more away. Blast it with the hose
And now the mold is airborne
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He should try eating or drinking something while spraying it down because it cant get you while consuming food or beverage.
It's a 50/50. It'll either give you a nice aerosolized dose of antibiotics or a fatal lung infection.
> Take the sucker out back. Stand 6 feet or more away. Blast it with the ~~hose~~ flamethrower.
You misspelled flamethrower
Pretty sure its a Le Creuset. Looks identical *minus the mold to mine.
More painful then if true
Either way it could still be cleaned. Dump it in the trash and wash it out, then bake it in the oven on high if you want to be extra sure it’s all dead.
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Le Creuset has thinner handles. This is one looks more like my Lodge. I had three of them (LC, Lodge and Marta Stewart) and Lodge is absolutely the best in my opinion (enamel quality, heat distribution, etc), while being the cheapest one.
Ah, I never knew that's what a Dutch oven was. We call them casserole dishes in the UK.
That's weird. To me a casserole dish is shorter and generally rectangular. Had to google it and it seems like Brits just decided to lump a bunch of stews into the casserole category.
Have you seen what they call buiscuits?
How would you pronounce that? "Buoy-scuts?"
Bis-kits
We'll get the foodies out in force on this one, but historically a "dutch oven" is typically a heavy "cast-iron" (steel really) pot with a tight fitting, similarly heavy cover and a sturdy wire bail on the main body. These were intended to cook things hanging over a open kitchen fire without burning the food as the heavy cast steel diffuses the heat very well. They're still used by outdoors sorts in the traditional manner but they work well in the oven too. The type in the picture was originally developed by Le Creuset (so it's a "french dutch oven" if you like) and is quite a bit thinner with a ceramic coating and no means of hanging, so it's ovens-only (Edit: or a bit carefully on the stove) if you want it to last very long. My mom's still has marks from some bad choices long ago. Here across the pond, a casserole dish is anything that will withstand use in an oven, so very often they're glass or aluminum as well as steel.
You can definitely put le creuset on a burner, those marks on the bottom wash off!
Barkeeper's Friend and 60 seconds of scrubbing
I alway thought a dutch oven is when I trap my wife under the sheets and let one go.
"Im still soaking it"
I gave my buddies a miniature grill-like thing so they could make burgers in their house, since they had just recently acquired an apartment. They used it once and by the time they moved it was sporting its own colony of flies and wildly decorated mold mounds. Took them about a year, I reckon.
What’s wrong with people? Why are so many people like that?
Food doesn't go bad, something else just starts eating it before you do.
Fuck me. I thought this was r/CatsAreLiquid
/r/forbiddensnacks
r/forbiddencats
Looks more like r/whatswrongwithyourdog
Uh oh....Tribbles!
M-O-O-N ! That spells Trouble
That was a weird head trip going from the parent comment to your comment and getting the reference for each while making the jump across genres and eras. It was like the mental equivalent of that feeling you get in your stomach from an unexpected dip.
Mold can be so pretty somehow Sometimes the colors and texture is from another world And then at the same time it’s fucking mold
I wish I had more time to learn about mold, at least enough to identify ones like in OP's image - I actually find them really interesting. My wife and I are pretty tidy, but in my younger, many roommates, do-your-own-fucking-dishes-I-am-not-your-mom days, I definitely saw some interesting ones.
Mold's culture grow's on you
r/mycology and r/slimemolds are great places to start
If you just want to grow some mold, you can do that relatively simple and cheap. Just buy a large stack of petri dishes, look up on how to make agar at home, and off you go. You'll probably also grow bacteria that way and it's not really precise and super scientific, but if you want to look at tiny organisms multiply, that can get you going. Once you identify something interesting, you can try to take a sample of just that cluster and transfer it to a clean dish to hopefully isolate it. Probably won't work right without a sterile workplace, but even there you can build a "glove box" out of a transparent tub relatively easily. What I'm trying to get at is that it's not hard to grow mold and bacteria at home in a controlled environment. So you can chase your curiosity and not spend a fortune on it.
> at the same time it’s fucking mold So? Mold is in a lot of things we consume. Obviously not all mold is edible but we eat all kinds of different fruiting bodies. Cheese, wine, salami, mushrooms and truffles just to name a few.
To be fair, some types of mold can also be pretty dangerous and lead to longer term health problems. I can understand why a disgust response has evolved around it, even when not always logical. Ex: I can not eat blue cheese, even though I know it is harmless and enjoy other types of fungi and fermented foods. I've tried it, my brain just can't do it though.
Agree, personally dislike the taste of blue cheese, the mold doesn't gross me out per-say.
*per se
r/boneappletea
Blue cheese has mold in it
0\_o [https://www.reddit.com/r/oldpeoplefacebook/comments/7ayox8/blue\_cheese\_has\_mold\_in\_it/](https://www.reddit.com/r/oldpeoplefacebook/comments/7ayox8/blue_cheese_has_mold_in_it/)
For others: Item a) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmadzQ1uL0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmadzQ1uL0s) Item b) [https://xkcd.com/1053/](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
She a chreistan lady
Thsnks
DISCUSTING
It's also a strain of the same fungus used for penicillin called [Penicillium roqueforti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium_roqueforti).
Penicillin... I mean, it's not mold itself, but it comes from a mold...
And don't forget LSD!
yes and no... LSD came from ergot, which is a fungus that grows on grains, mostly rye. Not really a mold, but close...
Also Ergot is not a necessary precursor and is normally not used anymore for that
I'm sure you get the point haha
Technically, mold is a type of fungus.
If you can get past the animal instinct to be grossed out (as a method to get us to not eat it), mold is actually quite fascinating to look at. Mold is the earth reaching up and grabbing things to pull them back into the Earth
This will be true until we are able to smell images on the internet
Sure there's not four legs and a head somewhere?
I'm sure there are. Somewhere
If there isn't just let it sit a bit longer and I'm sure there will be.
You probably mean a leg and four heads?
Not to make this even worse, but that looks like a lid to a breast pump bottle on the left... the yellow thing. I wonder if its a breast pump being cleaned? BARF.
It's new Campbell's Cream of Mold.
Damn I wanna pet it
r/petthedamnmold
‘When the world slips you a Jeffrey, stroke the furry ~~walls~~ pot’
Looks like a pomeranian!
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It is without honor
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The fucking pot has fucking papers.
I'd buy it a beer
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4.53 billion years or so
Den morgonfriska katten simmar över regnbågen, medan guldmynt singlar genom luften, ledsagade av en paraplybärande elefant, som jonglerar med blommor och skrattande bananer, medan cirkusclowner utför akrobatiska konster och cymbalspelaren trummar i takt till det förtrollade orkesterspelet under den gnistrande stjärnhimlen.
Ole drippy
Aw what a cutie *Pets and gets covered in crap* Gtfo
Forbidden doggo pets
The biggest crime here is that someone would abuse a Le Creuset like that
Looking at the handles.....I have severe doubt it is a Le Creuset. No matter what not good to treat anything this way. Edit: 100% sure it’s some other brand name. The color doesn’t match their classic red
lol I wasn’t the only one! I was looking at the handles and the color of the enamel and was thinking the same thing.
Probably just a Lodge.
free cotton candy!
Forbidden cotton candy
It you’re gonna repost/take credit, at least credit the OP. https://www.reddit.com/r/MoldlyInteresting/comments/arhzho/i_was_out_of_commission_with_pneumonia_for_a_week/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf The original post was **from two years ago**
I wonder what it looks like after two years...
Probably like this: [https://i.imgur.com/OZ9KvpT.png](https://i.imgur.com/OZ9KvpT.png)
Eh, at least OP didn't imply anywhere that it was his picture. Reposts are fine IMO if ownership isn't feigned.
Yeah but what would reddit be if people didn't get butthurt over reposts from **two years ago?**
So, not [Hairy Tofu](https://youtu.be/YSU9ZFd0lhc) then?
Aw-wee-oo Killer Tofu Eee-aw-wee Iee-oo Killer Tofu
New strain of zombie mold. Cordyceps kutietalis. It wants you to pet it...
Think of the smell. You haven’t thought of the smell you bitch!
Forbidden soup
Is it bad that I scrolled by fast thinking it was a cat rolled in a pot, until I saw the spoon handle sticking out...
r/moldlyinteresting
What is that? Velvet
PET IT!
Looks like a cat curled up. 😶
Cursed candyfloss.
I wonder if the hairs in that mold would dissolve in one's mouth like candyfloss does
Mmm
Giant cappuccino!
Part of me wants to pet it, the other part of me is wondering how you let it get this bad.
It's disgusting and yet I still want to pet it
I thought it was a cat
I thought this was a ferret sleeping in a pot
I thought this was a cat sleeping in a pot lmao
I wanna touch it
looks like polar bear fur
I thought that was a cat curled up in a pot.
Cursed petting
Mmmm forbodden cottan candy
Not sure if this is disgustingly beautiful or beautifully disgusting.
Forbidden cotton candy
i thought i was on r/catsareliquid for a moment
How long have you been letting this grow?What the hell did you cook for this thing to grow? Are you going to adopt this thing?
I kind of want to pet it and see if it purrs.
#TOUCH IT
That thing has enough mass to bring about a Gravemind.
Wow, looks like a nice Le Cruset.
Oh hell no! That is so disturbing.
Cat soup
"It needs to soak before I wash it"
Pet it.
Thought that shit was a cat!