Posted: 10/6/2007 9:48:47 PM EDT
So I baked a pie this morning...an apple pie Myself and the wifey ate half of it this afternoon... I go to get a piece of it now... Black mold like stuff is forming on the juices in the empty area of the pie pan.  Can mold grow this fast  The pie was not refridgerated but is less than 24 hours old... I think I am going to have to toss it and make another one 
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If it's only forming where the liquid is touching the pan and not on the pie itself, my guess is it is probably a reaction between the lemon juice, sugar, and the steel at room temp. That being said I still wouldn't eat it. No pie is good enough to risk being wrong. |
That is it. Mold, if growing, will appear as a fuzz or hair. Bacteria usually are not that color and cannot grow rapidly in low pH, high sugar conditions...they need amino acids too. |