Emmy is so open minded she calls the texture of fluffy mold growing absolutely all over something as 'plush' tasting! I commend her peerless bravery, honestly
You were right on all counts. It is a mold, which is a type of fungus. The mycelia are the thread-like structures that constitute the vegetative part of a fungus.
@@dulcinealee3933 it's definitely not "poisonous", a lot of fungi are, but this one is perfectly edible. I'm not nearly well informed enough to answer your question about penicillin allergies correlating to this stuff. I suspect not but I'd ask a doctor if you have any intention of trying it.
@@dulcinealee3933 I agree with these two. Being a different strain of mold, I would think it would be safe, but I'm definitely not a doctor, so if you die, don't sue us. 😉
Mold IS a fungus just FYI. It’s important to him that people recognize this because he doesn’t get invited to parties when people don’t know he's a Fungi.
@@baseballerr11Yes, some molds are safe, like penicillum mold in blue cheese, or natto mold, but it’s difficult to tell which molds produce bio toxins, so it’s safer to only eat mold that comes from a culture which is guaranteed edible. Please don’t eat random mold!
Emmy!!! I recently rediscovered your channel after about five years, and I want to thank you for being such a comfort to me through hard times. Years ago, I was really struggling with my mental health, and lately, I’ve unfortunately hit an all-time low. Your videos are always so pleasant and soothing, not to mention incredibly thorough and informative. The nostalgia I feel from watching them has been a huge help when I’m feeling down. Please never stop creating-I’m so grateful for you and your content!
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Something similar happened to me with kahm yeast. I used to store my fermented foods in a cabinet. Kahm yeast grew on my kefir and even though it’s harmless, it’s unwanted so I tossed that batch and the grains and fermented a new one in the same cabinet. Kahm yeast grew on it again. Now I can’t ferment anything in that cabinet again. I did clean it with bleach but I don’t think it’s enough so better not risk losing more batches.
@@dinnyskips The timestamp you dropped is Emmy saying, "be sure you know what you're eating," not her saying "I thoroughly cleaned out the box after I got the desired mold for this one time I want it." Even if it's safe to consume, if Emmy uses this proofing box and it isn't sanitized correctly, her future foods, likely bread, will have mold, even if edible, on it.
as someone who came from Anhui province I can add a few notes. 1.the very first tofu was accidentally created in northern Anhui region thousands of years ago. However the hairy tofu is only available in the southern mountain region of Anhui. 2.the hairy tofu making is also the same process of the first half of fermented bean curd making.
Does it produce some sort of alcohol…as Emmy mentioned in its taste. Maybe making the people of that region a little hi like the mountainous worker who chew the coca leaves in s. America.
@@Oskigal based on what I found that molds in tempeh (Rhizopus) are not exact the same as those in mold tofu (Mucor). however they both belongs to mucoraceae.
Hi, Emmy! I'm commenting today to thank you for always being such a ray of sunshine. ☀️🧡 I've had a really challenging week, but you never fail to bring a smile and thoughtful content. Thank you for sharing, and thank you for you!
👏Emmy, that looks delicious! If it's anything like Tempeh, it should taste great 👍😁 You certainly have a lot of scaredy cats commenting here. In California and Oregon, we've been able to buy prepared Tempeh for at least 30 years probably 40 years. ☑️ APPROVED 😌👏
Hey! Did you ever make Blue Cheese? I’d love to see you do that, and/or make more cheese in general. If you haven’t already, I think its a good idea for a really interesting video, or video series. Maybe time consuming but really cool. Now I’m hungry…Oh look, some red wine! 🧀
Since you are into these kinds of things you should keep an eye out for "corn smut". It's a fungal infestation of corn that apparently tastes quite nice.
I haven't watched UA-cam for years but have been watching again recently and somehow I remembered your name (I never remember UA-camrs names) and it's so cool to see you're still making videos!! I'm getting ready to buy a house Ina couple months (just need to decide on a place which is so difficult) and finally have the opportunity to cook which I haven't had the chance due to my small kitchen in my apt so I'm really excited to finally get to cook cook and finally get yo make some of the stuff you make in your videos! Also congrats on having 3 million subscribers! Idr what you were at a few years ago the last time I watched but congrats Emmy!!
I feel like people ate this because they started and forgot about it but didn't have enough to eat but if you out a ton of spices and heavy flavors on top, you're not really tasting it...
I see a lot of street vendor vids also mix the hairy tofu in a big bowl of dry spices, and the 'hairs' flatten and pretty much disappear, then its stored like kimchi in a container to further ferment for a couple more days. It always looks tasty to me.
I always wanted to try hairy tofu! Good to know you can make it at home i'm absolutely trying to get my hands on some inoculant from now on 😊 and there's many other ways this type of tofu is eaten, even pickled
Dear Emmy, Wow, I just love new techniques and as an ardent blue cheese fan I would certainly love to try the fuzzy wuzzy tofu. Mao (if I'm remembering correctly) is Fur and or feathers. Feathery tofu. on the road to stinky.... Always make rice. All the best from Mexico Jacques
My wife will eat most things but we both had childhoods filled with removing mold from bread and such before eating and I sincerely doubt I could get her to eat it. I'm pretty sure I couldn't get me to either.
Once mold is visible on bread it’s already in the bread. You shouldn’t eat any loaf of bread that has visible mold on it or you can get sick. Obviously no way you could have known that as a kid, but just something to keep in mind for the future!
@@sapphoculloden5215 Oh I know. I just wanted to point out the bit about the bread. Some people don’t know it’s not safe to just cut the mold off of bread.
@@rumpeltyltskyn eating the rest of the moldy bread is often not so much an ignorant choice as a need to eat. The non-visible mold "roots" don't taste like mold in my experience. I've never been sick from eating non-moldy bits of moldy bread. Not that I encourage unknown new people to do it, but if a person has not been sick despite eating non-moldy bits, well, more bread for them. If they become immunosupressed or pregnant etc they might want to reconsider. I did once throw up in half an hour after realising the weird taste WAS mold spots, but don't know if it was "just" from the thought or if it was actually my stomach purging a dangerous substance. It was the first time I encountered white bread mold: I inspected thoroughly for familiar blue mold when first bite tasted funny - thought it all was flour on the surface of the bread but in the end there were also white dots that weren't dryly flour-y... After biting into moldy bread I don't buy that particular bread from that brand for a while as the association of mold prevents enjoyment of even the freshest of those breads. Probably takes half a year to feel like eating that bread again; luckily I live in a bread country so there will always be plenty of options!
In a similar vein, I highly recommend watching 'Gold of the Plateau' which is a beautiful 6 minute documentary (here on YT) where the 'gold' will REALLY make you wonder 'Who the heck ever thought to eat THAT!!" And yes, fungus plays a part there too. Cheers from Oz!
Gawd, fellow Americans! Blablabla. Honestly, this country's Puritanical origins made us a bunch of babies! You better never go to France! 🤪🙄 Lots of French cheese, like Brie has white fluffy mold all over it! Delicious! You eat it, you don't scrape it off.
That looks interesting! I think I would only be able to eat the fried version though. I would be put off knowing that the fluff in my mouth is mold 😮💨 I wonder how it compares to stinky tofu. I hated that for the longest time until one day I just decided to try it out and it actually tasted like normal tofu.
Question: is this the same as the fermented tofu in jars? Your description of it as creamy and with an alcoholic taste made me wonder. Used to flavor sauces.
I appreciate that humans are very creative and make many different things to eat..but I don't know if this is something that I'd go out of my way to find. If it was there, I might try a bite, just to see what it was like, but I could happily exist not knowing.
I feel like such a hypocrite. I love blue cheese, but the thought of putting that in my mouth is just revolting ! I'm not actually sure that I could force myself to eat it if I were starving. You are brave woman, Emmy. 😉
My question is, why did the first person decide to taste something that looked like this when they were aware that mold could harm them? I'm assuming it was during a famine or they were really low on food or something like that.
Would you try a bite? 😎
Eh.. no. LOL
I’ll pass but I don’t mind watching your videos
I’m so curious what it would feel in the mouth
I might try it, after seeing you eat it. But it's a bit scary looking! You're very adventurous with your food!
Yep
Emmy is so open minded she calls the texture of fluffy mold growing absolutely all over something as 'plush' tasting! I commend her peerless bravery, honestly
You were right on all counts. It is a mold, which is a type of fungus. The mycelia are the thread-like structures that constitute the vegetative part of a fungus.
Was gonna type the same thing but I'll just cosign this message instead
is it actually poisonous? if you are allergic to penicillin will it kill you?
@@dulcinealee3933 it's definitely not "poisonous", a lot of fungi are, but this one is perfectly edible. I'm not nearly well informed enough to answer your question about penicillin allergies correlating to this stuff. I suspect not but I'd ask a doctor if you have any intention of trying it.
@@dulcinealee3933 penicillin is a different kind of mold so "probably not" :)
@@dulcinealee3933 I agree with these two. Being a different strain of mold, I would think it would be safe, but I'm definitely not a doctor, so if you die, don't sue us. 😉
Mold IS a fungus just FYI. It’s important to him that people recognize this because he doesn’t get invited to parties when people don’t know he's a Fungi.
@@sesa2984 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So are certain types of mold, safe to eat? This is extremely interesting
@@baseballerr11blue cheese is safe and it’s made with mold
@@baseballerr11Yes, some molds are safe, like penicillum mold in blue cheese, or natto mold, but it’s difficult to tell which molds produce bio toxins, so it’s safer to only eat mold that comes from a culture which is guaranteed edible. Please don’t eat random mold!
@@TheSmb228 not for people with compromised immune systems.
Emmy!!! I recently rediscovered your channel after about five years, and I want to thank you for being such a comfort to me through hard times. Years ago, I was really struggling with my mental health, and lately, I’ve unfortunately hit an all-time low. Your videos are always so pleasant and soothing, not to mention incredibly thorough and informative. The nostalgia I feel from watching them has been a huge help when I’m feeling down. Please never stop creating-I’m so grateful for you and your content!
Big hugs to you my friend ❤️🩹 As someone also struggling, it’s not always visible to everyone around you and it can feel very lonely. But you’re not alone 🤗 I come here because Emmy’s channel is a safe space for me as well. I hope that you’re doing okay right now and just remember tomorrow is a new day ❤️
First person to eat this must have been REALLY hungry.
they were likely storing tofu and found mold had grown on it and decided to eat it anyway to not waste anything
😂😂😂😂😂
Same thing could be said for cheese....
Same thing could be said for anything fermented....and milk...😐
Same with crab, lobster, heck, same with fish, and mushrooms in general. Lot's more too I'm sure. Pig snouts...
You'd better sanitize that proofing box VERY thoroughly, or you're going to inoculate every loaf you proof in it from now on.
Something similar happened to me with kahm yeast. I used to store my fermented foods in a cabinet. Kahm yeast grew on my kefir and even though it’s harmless, it’s unwanted so I tossed that batch and the grains and fermented a new one in the same cabinet. Kahm yeast grew on it again. Now I can’t ferment anything in that cabinet again. I did clean it with bleach but I don’t think it’s enough so better not risk losing more batches.
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Don't be condescending
@@dinnyskips The timestamp you dropped is Emmy saying, "be sure you know what you're eating," not her saying "I thoroughly cleaned out the box after I got the desired mold for this one time I want it."
Even if it's safe to consume, if Emmy uses this proofing box and it isn't sanitized correctly, her future foods, likely bread, will have mold, even if edible, on it.
Why do you think she don't know to wash things?
Even as a 37 year vegetarian, that is one of the least appetizing video titles and introductions I've seen .
I'll probably try it this week😁
Report back!
Let us know how it goes
It looks like you blurred them so we don't see them 😂
It took this comment for me to realize that they weren’t blurred
Same. Actually it was more like when you don't have glasses on and you try to look at something without much detail like marble
Censored tofu
as someone who came from Anhui province I can add a few notes.
1.the very first tofu was accidentally created in northern Anhui region thousands of years ago. However the hairy tofu is only available in the southern mountain region of Anhui.
2.the hairy tofu making is also the same process of the first half of fermented bean curd making.
Thank you for sharing here
Does it produce some sort of alcohol…as Emmy mentioned in its taste. Maybe making the people of that region a little hi like the mountainous worker who chew the coca leaves in s. America.
Do you know if it is the same type of mold as tempeh?
@@Oskigal based on what I found that molds in tempeh (Rhizopus) are not exact the same as those in mold tofu (Mucor). however they both belongs to mucoraceae.
@@theeyesehaveit don't think it should taste anything alcohol flavour. the mold tofu was very likely an accidental discovery as well.
You are a brave woman. I love to cook, but this would intimidate me so much. I'm too paranoid of getting ill.
I am allergic to all the Cyllins so am not going to chance that another type of mold didn't get introduced on accident. Glad she enjoyed it tho
@@MsWillowbayOrelseWhen were you diagnosed with this? 90% of people who were allergic don’t have this allergy at all after childhood
@@joeslinky As a kid. They tried giving me Amoxicillin when I was 20 and I lost consciousness. So ya I am one of the few that have it past childhood.
I haven't clicked on a youtube notification this fast in years😂
Ha ha! I clicked on it pretty fast... I'm weirded out. I'm not sure how to feel about it... 😳
I do love how soft and fuzzy they are. "Cute" is right!
Just looks like mouldy to my brain 😂 it tells me 'do not eat."
This will forever be etched into my mind that it looks (and thus tastes) like mold
cause it is
When Emmy says "not too spicy" I am preparing myself for a burning tongue. 😂😂
This is one that I would have to talk myself into trying.
Hi, Emmy!
I'm commenting today to thank you for always being such a ray of sunshine. ☀️🧡 I've had a really challenging week, but you never fail to bring a smile and thoughtful content. Thank you for sharing, and thank you for you!
I hope your days get better ❤️🩹
👏Emmy, that looks delicious! If it's anything like Tempeh, it should taste great 👍😁 You certainly have a lot of scaredy cats commenting here. In California and Oregon, we've been able to buy prepared Tempeh for at least 30 years probably 40 years. ☑️ APPROVED 😌👏
Looks like the tofu was a witness to a mob hit and had to be pixelated for its own protection🤪
You've read both fungus and mould because moulds are a type of fungus. (like grass is a type of plant)
Something about when you described the color of the mold as creamy almost got me
Hey! Did you ever make Blue Cheese? I’d love to see you do that, and/or make more cheese in general. If you haven’t already, I think its a good idea for a really interesting video, or video series. Maybe time consuming but really cool. Now I’m hungry…Oh look, some red wine! 🧀
You are so awesome Emmy! I love learning how to make interesting things. You make it look so delicious that i really wanna try this at home!
Since you are into these kinds of things you should keep an eye out for "corn smut". It's a fungal infestation of corn that apparently tastes quite nice.
Huitlacoche 👍🏼
She's already eaten it! The video is called CORN SMUT Taste Test -- 🇲🇽HUITLACOCHE Quesadilla & Salsa Recipe :)
scared to google
@@dinnyskipsyou dirty dirty corn! You love that salted butter doncha!? Call me Kernel! 😂
Love this video! I'd definitely try it. BTW, my favorite cheese is epoisses!!!
Hooray for sticky cheese!🧀
I haven't watched UA-cam for years but have been watching again recently and somehow I remembered your name (I never remember UA-camrs names) and it's so cool to see you're still making videos!!
I'm getting ready to buy a house Ina couple months (just need to decide on a place which is so difficult) and finally have the opportunity to cook which I haven't had the chance due to my small kitchen in my apt so I'm really excited to finally get to cook cook and finally get yo make some of the stuff you make in your videos!
Also congrats on having 3 million subscribers! Idr what you were at a few years ago the last time I watched but congrats Emmy!!
Interesting. I’d rather pet it than eat it. 👋🏽
😄😼🖐Yeah, it *does* look more like something I'd want to pet, like a little Tribble or fluffy pet rock.
@@rachelrodgers9171 if you give it some more days, it can even walk on its own :D
I feel like people ate this because they started and forgot about it but didn't have enough to eat but if you out a ton of spices and heavy flavors on top, you're not really tasting it...
More Tofu adventures please!
I have 1 bar of poopy 5g service and I’m using it to watch EMMY MADE 😍😍😍
1:02 it’s all fungus so you’re good. Mushroom, mold, mycelium all fungus.
I see a lot of street vendor vids also mix the hairy tofu in a big bowl of dry spices, and the 'hairs' flatten and pretty much disappear, then its stored like kimchi in a container to further ferment for a couple more days. It always looks tasty to me.
Yes this is how I often see it prepared and it looks delicious
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Looks yummy to me too 😋
Yes, I've seen it too.🌶️ I believe with that method it undergoes a second round of fermentation. 🔥
They look like mouldy marshmallows!
Hey Emmy, that sounds similar to Tempeh. Is it? Tempeh I've bought at natural foods places is actually very delicious. No kidding. ☺️
You should give Temphe (making) a try!
Speaking of hair, yours looks amazing!
I always wanted to try hairy tofu! Good to know you can make it at home i'm absolutely trying to get my hands on some inoculant from now on 😊
and there's many other ways this type of tofu is eaten, even pickled
Fun fact, mold is a type of fungus
I wonder if they would have a stronger funk taste if u “aged” them longer..??
Omg Common Ground Fair shirt! The best fair, at least for regenerative agriculture hippies like myself :D
I wonder what makes this more or less pleasant than any other mouldy product we're already used to eating like cheese etc...
Reminds me of Camembert. I love Camembert, so I would try a bite or two, even though I'm not much into Tofu 😊
Dear Emmy, Wow, I just love new techniques and as an ardent blue cheese fan I would certainly love to try the fuzzy wuzzy tofu. Mao (if I'm remembering correctly) is Fur and or feathers. Feathery tofu. on the road to stinky.... Always make rice. All the best from Mexico Jacques
I love your wild experimental videos
My wife will eat most things but we both had childhoods filled with removing mold from bread and such before eating and I sincerely doubt I could get her to eat it.
I'm pretty sure I couldn't get me to either.
Once mold is visible on bread it’s already in the bread. You shouldn’t eat any loaf of bread that has visible mold on it or you can get sick. Obviously no way you could have known that as a kid, but just something to keep in mind for the future!
@@rumpeltyltskyn - It's not really about the bread; it's about a mental association which would make mouldy tofu very hard to eat.
@@sapphoculloden5215 Oh I know. I just wanted to point out the bit about the bread. Some people don’t know it’s not safe to just cut the mold off of bread.
@@rumpeltyltskyn - Oh, I see. In that case, yes, it was an excellent point.
@@rumpeltyltskyn eating the rest of the moldy bread is often not so much an ignorant choice as a need to eat. The non-visible mold "roots" don't taste like mold in my experience.
I've never been sick from eating non-moldy bits of moldy bread. Not that I encourage unknown new people to do it, but if a person has not been sick despite eating non-moldy bits, well, more bread for them. If they become immunosupressed or pregnant etc they might want to reconsider.
I did once throw up in half an hour after realising the weird taste WAS mold spots, but don't know if it was "just" from the thought or if it was actually my stomach purging a dangerous substance. It was the first time I encountered white bread mold: I inspected thoroughly for familiar blue mold when first bite tasted funny - thought it all was flour on the surface of the bread but in the end there were also white dots that weren't dryly flour-y...
After biting into moldy bread I don't buy that particular bread from that brand for a while as the association of mold prevents enjoyment of even the freshest of those breads. Probably takes half a year to feel like eating that bread again; luckily I live in a bread country so there will always be plenty of options!
In a similar vein, I highly recommend watching 'Gold of the Plateau' which is a beautiful 6 minute documentary (here on YT) where the 'gold' will REALLY make you wonder 'Who the heck ever thought to eat THAT!!" And yes, fungus plays a part there too. Cheers from Oz!
I don’t even like bald tofu!
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Gawd, fellow Americans! Blablabla.
Honestly, this country's Puritanical origins made us a bunch of babies! You better never go to France! 🤪🙄 Lots of French cheese, like Brie has white fluffy mold all over it! Delicious! You eat it, you don't scrape it off.
It’s so cute!!
So cute!🥹
The start of the music at the beginning reminded my brain of that weird "heffalumps and woozles" song from the old Winnie the Pooh movie 😂
Heffalumos and Woooooozles…. Forgot about that song hah. Gonna go find it for my kiddos
Omg I always wanted to make this!!
Mold-like looking because it's mold.
Emmy, this goes against everything I’ve been taught but the way you describe it doesn’t seem too bad
thanks for another insightful experiment.
My pleasure!
@@emmymade love to you and your family. Dark times and all that.
Remind me a lot of tempeh
Yep!
Rhizopus moments
Fascinating idea
Oh I'd love to try these!!!
Mold are a type of fungus. All have mycelia!
This is the comment I was looking for. It's one of those - a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn't always a square
Hi Emmy! Love your videos! ❤
Fun fact. Mold is a type of fungi.
Same thing thats on bri cheese isnt it? The white stuff. Just smashed flat?
Very cool now I want to try it
Emmy- LOVE your MSG jar- I am guessing you and your family are not afraid to use MSG! :) My mom has a jar as well.
Where did you purchase the starter?
So cool!
Only Emmy can turn the sentence of "I have significant mold growth!" into something I'm genuinely happy about 🤣
It's so cute 🥺
Right?!🥹
Ooo very interesting!
So after making hairy tofu and natto, would you Care to try and make tempeh? I'd be so interested in that process
So would I.
That cilantro looks suspiciously like parsley... I love how the tofu looks like its out of focus!
It's funny that I watch this and my first thought is "nooooo", even if I ate camembert cheese an hour ago. 😂
That looks interesting! I think I would only be able to eat the fried version though. I would be put off knowing that the fluff in my mouth is mold 😮💨 I wonder how it compares to stinky tofu. I hated that for the longest time until one day I just decided to try it out and it actually tasted like normal tofu.
I imagine someone long ago sitting around thinking 'how can I make tofu less appetizing?'
Leave it to Emmy.
They are very cute,!😋👍
Adorable.🥹
Whenever I see food that's gone furry like that, I have no desire whatsoever to eat it, fried or otherwise... :P
blue cheese? camembert? Its delicious.
This stuff got me hooked on Dianxi Xiaoge
Put little black dots on em, for eyes, and have miniature hairy ghosts.
I've always been curious about this. Definitely want to try it someday!
I'm surprised at the number of people who would not try this. It looks delicious. I might even look for those little packets and make some!
Me too! 👍😁
I like the idea of trying this as someone who can’t have cheese
inb4 all your bread starts growing white mold(!)
They look soo fuzzy that it makes them look like they've been censored for modesty 🤣
Mold is fungus! 😊 I wonder if I can eat this? I can only eat certain kinds of fermented soy, never unfermented.
Soybeans and tofu is such an amazing and fascinating thing.
Question: is this the same as the fermented tofu in jars? Your description of it as creamy and with an alcoholic taste made me wonder. Used to flavor sauces.
I appreciate that humans are very creative and make many different things to eat..but I don't know if this is something that I'd go out of my way to find. If it was there, I might try a bite, just to see what it was like, but I could happily exist not knowing.
I could imagine that you could participate Masterchef eitherway for winning something else or just to see your performance... xD
Was wondering if you went to the fair this year and I can tell by your shirt that you did!
My husband just told me it looks like spider egg sacs....
One of those foods don't tell me what it is until 3wks later...
I feel like such a hypocrite. I love blue cheese, but the thought of putting that in my mouth is just revolting ! I'm not actually sure that I could force myself to eat it if I were starving. You are brave woman, Emmy. 😉
4:09 Tofu Camembert; tofu Coulommiers…
So are certain types of mold, safe to eat? This is extremely interesting
They are so fuzzy it looks like they are purposely blurred out lol 😂
My question is, why did the first person decide to taste something that looked like this when they were aware that mold could harm them?
I'm assuming it was during a famine or they were really low on food or something like that.
Also known as "furry loaf".
When I saw the first images i genuinely thought my video had gone fuzzy or something 😂 this was fascinating!
The last of us has begun
It's kinda hard to look at. It's so fuzzy, my eyes seem to think it's out of focus!
you should ferment it and make Fermented Bean Curd
Uhhhh, hmmmm...
More for you!
Emmy,
You brave & fearless experimentor, you.
Congratulations on finding a sauce & new food you love so much