Milk

[mcflurry]

arfur daley said:

supermarket milk is rubbish anyway even full fat milk is watered down. best getting milk off your milkman. top stuff.

Dairy Crest supply our Milk man

[calibrax]

If I'm having cereal (which is only occasionally) I have some small cartons of UHT long life skimmed milk in the fridge. Ideal, because I don't drink tea or coffee so I don't usually have fresh milk in the house... because unless I'm in a milk-drinking mood it will go off before I can use it! But if I do buy some for drinking, it's always semi-skimmed.

[Coco H]

either drink full fat or don't bother. If I am in non-milk phase I use rice milk.

[Silent1]

calibrax said:

If I'm having cereal (which is only occasionally) I have some small cartons of UHT long life skimmed milk in the fridge. Ideal, because I don't drink tea or coffee so I don't usually have fresh milk in the house... because unless I'm in a milk-drinking mood it will go off before I can use it! But if I do buy some for drinking, it's always semi-skimmed.

Buy cravendale, it last for at least a month

[arfur daley]

or a cow

[Pothole]

so no evidence that it's watered down, then?

[Silent1]

Pothole said:

so no evidence that it's watered down, then?

No, anyone who says it is is talking bks, i've tried it in most stages from the cow, the dairy parlour and a few of the stops in between and the difference is very little.

[Marf]

Pothole said:

so no evidence that it's watered down, then?

No, just more trolling from the originator of that little nugget of falsehood.

[Pothole]

Good to know. Thanks all.

[Simpo Two]

calibrax said:

If I'm having cereal (which is only occasionally) I have some small cartons of UHT long life skimmed milk in the fridge. Ideal, because I don't drink tea or coffee so I don't usually have fresh milk in the house... because unless I'm in a milk-drinking mood it will go off before I can use it! But if I do buy some for drinking, it's always semi-skimmed.

Sorry but 'UHT long life skimmed milk' bears as much resemblance to milk as I do to Arnie Schwarzeneger. Try Coffee-Mate instead

[Marf]

Simpo Two said:

calibrax said:

If I'm having cereal (which is only occasionally) I have some small cartons of UHT long life skimmed milk in the fridge. Ideal, because I don't drink tea or coffee so I don't usually have fresh milk in the house... because unless I'm in a milk-drinking mood it will go off before I can use it! But if I do buy some for drinking, it's always semi-skimmed.

Sorry but 'UHT long life skimmed milk' bears as much resemblance to milk as I do to Arnie Schwarzeneger. Try Coffee-Mate instead

to both

[grumbledoak]

Silent1 said:

Buy cravendale, it last for at least a month

Heard this before. But it is supposed to just be filtered. If so, what on Earth are they filtering out to make such a difference?

[Marf]

grumbledoak said:

Silent1 said:

Buy cravendale, it last for at least a month

Heard this before. But it is supposed to just be filtered. If so, what on Earth are they filtering out to make such a difference?

Dunno, but it tastes funny.

[Simpo Two]

Milk goes off because of microbial action. To stop this you either have to remove or kill the microorganisms. Heat is one way - a certain temperature for a certain time give you pasteurised and UHT (ultra-heat-treated). But too much heat denatures the proteins and so changes the taste. Filtration is a physical way to remove microorganisms. You could also kill all the nasties stone dead with gamma radiation, but that would scare the ill-educated public.

Everybody should learn microbiology

[thetapeworm]

grumbledoak said:

Silent1 said:

Buy cravendale, it last for at least a month

Heard this before. But it is supposed to just be filtered. If so, what on Earth are they filtering out to make such a difference?

It's run through a ceramic filtration system before it's pasteurised so more bacteria is removed - this is why is lasts longer than normal milk, less nasties in there to turn it sour.

They say it'll last about 25 days so you can buy it before you go on holiday, come back after a couple of weeks and still have nice milk for that much missed cuppa

[pugwash4x4]

Cravendale is amazing stuff- took 8 pints of it on a 4 week trip through the sahara- we bought it the day we left and it was still drinkable 2 weeks after we came back.

Truly amazing.

[Silent1]

Marf said:

grumbledoak said:

Silent1 said:

Buy cravendale, it last for at least a month

Heard this before. But it is supposed to just be filtered. If so, what on Earth are they filtering out to make such a difference?

Dunno, but it tastes funny.

I've heard a few people say that, i can't taste any difference though.
But don't listen to me, i also can't smell flowers.

[Pferdestarke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXMapqiDsqs

[Wadeski]

mcflurry said:

arfur daley said:

supermarket milk is rubbish anyway even full fat milk is watered down. best getting milk off your milkman. top stuff.

Dairy Crest supply our Milk man

They supply almost everyone's milkman.

[Murph7355]

I find Sainsburys semi-skimmed lasts ages too. A good 3 weeks in the fridge.

Don't drink it any more (have very little milk at all these days - doesn't agree with my system these days ), but fully skimmed is fine - you get used to it and it tastes normal thereafter (to the point where semi or full fat tastes odd).