Long life milk

[Ste1987]

I find the range of long life milk available quite baffling. What's the difference in it all, especially the value/smart price one? Milk is milk, is it not?

[ApOrbital]

Ultra-high temperature processing (UHT.)

[Hoover.]

tastes st

even the stuff in fridge that lasts a month...... just buy a pint a week and chuck what isn't used

[Zod]

Hoover. said:

tastes st

even the stuff in fridge that lasts a month...... just buy a pint a week and chuck what isn't used

we go through 2 pints a day (three kids).

[C0ffin D0dger]

UHT milk is truely rank. Surprised anyone buys it. We used to keep a carton in the back of the cupboard for emergency use, it went off before it got used

[Ste1987]

ApOrbital said:

Ultra-high temperature processing (UHT.)

I knew that! I wasn't asking the difference between long life and fresh milk, but the difference between the choices of long life milk brands. I was more curious about value/smart price milk.

I only ever have milk on my cereal and in my coffee and I don't notice any difference

[j4ckos mate]

We always had "stera" as a kid, who buys sterilized milk?
its bloody awful

my FIL likes it and asked if we had some, i said no not since we got the fridge.

[Digger]

If you like soya milk, Tesco's own brand is quite nice, doesn't need to be refrigerated until opened, and nearly half the price of Alpro.

[Ste1987]

Digger said:

If you like soya milk, Tesco's own brand is quite nice, doesn't need to be refrigerated until opened, and nearly half the price of Alpro.

I'd stick with soya milk if it didn't curdle in my coffee!

[SilverSixer]

Ste1987 said:

ApOrbital said:

Ultra-high temperature processing (UHT.)

I knew that! I wasn't asking the difference between long life and fresh milk, but the difference between the choices of long life milk brands. I was more curious about value/smart price milk.

I only ever have milk on my cereal and in my coffee and I don't notice any difference

As with most things, there is little to no difference in the actual contents of the box, just the shiny branding on the outside, which needs to have a marketing budget. Tesco Value UHT milk will be identical to Fortnum & Mason's Range Rover Evoque Limited Edition Saw You Coming Rolex UHT Milk, but half the price.

My family lives on Tesco Everyday Value UHT Milk and we haven't died of Social Embarrassment yet. We don't even decant it into cut glass when we have guests, and none of them have died either.

:-)

Edited by SilverSixer on Wednesday 25th May 14:58

[Digger]

Ste1987 said:

Digger said:

If you like soya milk, Tesco's own brand is quite nice, doesn't need to be refrigerated until opened, and nearly half the price of Alpro.

I'd stick with soya milk if it didn't curdle in my coffee!

Buy one of them new-fangled kettles that boil at 70-100 degrees. Anything above 80 will most likely curdle soya. You can also get a milk frother / heater that heats milk up to around 70 as well.

Edited by Digger on Wednesday 25th May 15:55

[Saleen836]

Zod said:

Hoover. said:

tastes st

even the stuff in fridge that lasts a month...... just buy a pint a week and chuck what isn't used

we go through 2 pints a day (three kids).

10-12 pints a week in my house and it's just me drinking it!

[CAPP0]

Digger said:

If you like soya milk, Tesco's own brand is quite nice, doesn't need to be refrigerated until opened, and nearly half the price of Alpro.

Interesting, we don't use cow's milk at home, only Alpro, but as you allude, it's rather pricey!

[toon10]

We buy the lacto free stuff as the other half is lactose intolerant. It tastes exactly the same as normal milk, comes in full, semi and skimmed guise and lasts a lot longer than the normal stuff. It's a bit more expensive but it never gets wasted.

[Digger]

CAPP0 said:

Interesting, we don't use cow's milk at home, only Alpro, but as you allude, it's rather pricey!

This one.

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id...

[CAPP0]

Digger said:

CAPP0 said:

Interesting, we don't use cow's milk at home, only Alpro, but as you allude, it's rather pricey!

This one.

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id...

Thanks

[rdjohn]

I live in France where fresh skimmed milk does not exist, so we use UHT most of the time and it tastes OK.

Step up to semi-skimmed UHT and it tastes horrid, but we can buy fresh semi-skimmed.

Perhaps this accounts for the varying views on here?