Yesterday evening, I obught some pepperjack cheese from the store (the kind with jalepeno.) I left it on the kitchen table. I will get home at about 3 pm. Is it safe to eat? It is the kind that is sealed in plastic.
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Probably – unless you keep the temperature at hothouse levels.
I’m sure it’s fine. Yeah, there is a small chance that it’ll make you sick. But that’s a pretty small chance. Real cheese is actually made at room temperature, you know?
It’s safe. The same thing happened to me over the weekend with some opened Humboldt Fog, and I ate it the next day and survived. (The cat may even have licked it during the night.) 
Yes, even if cheese gets a bit of surface mold you can usually trim it off and the cheese will still be fine. If the mold permeates into the block you will know it at first bite and you can just spit it out.
I’ve got a wedge of swiss that has been a room temp. for a couple days. It has a much better flavor at room temp.
I just keep a piece of Saran wrap over it to prevent it from drying out.
Heck, if you get through cheese fairly rapidly and don’t live in a sauna, there’s no need to refrigerate it at all - for hard cheese anyway. I often leave cheddar out on the cheeseboard, covered over of course, and it lasts just fine. Well, until I get the munchies, anyway.
Cheese keeps pretty well. In fact that’s why cheese was invented. It’s a way of having food for those long camel caravan treks from oasis to oasis.
I used to let sharp cheddar get moldy on purpose. Just like bleu cheese.
It should be safe. Cheese is a few thousand years older than refrigeration. If it usually got lethal without refrigeration, people wouldn’t have kept eating it.
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Thank you all very much.
Following the receipt of this good information, I shall chow down!
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I always leave my cheese out. I never worry about its spoiling. I never worry about any food spoiling. Hell, people have survived a little bacteria in their food for ages and ages and they have… urk… uh. . a… uh, somebody call 911… uh…
While this is true, it’s usually a good idea to trim off quite a bit more than you think you need to, because mold will extend below the surface quite a way. And while it probably won’t make you immediately sick if you eat mold, some common household molds produce proteins called aflatoxins, which are among the most potent carcinogens yet discovered.
It will be safe unless somebody… moved it.