How to Keep Milk from Spoiling Without Refrigeration (cooker, butter, buy)

[Chava61]

I found this article quite interesting. Does anyone else have techniques how to keep food from spoiling when there is no refrigeration available?

How to Keep Milk from Spoiling Without Refrigeration

[no kudzu]

Haven't read the article but I know there is some sort of packaged milk for camping I've seen my camping friends buy.

[jambo101]

If thats what i gotta do to keep unrefrigerated milk from going bad i think i'll just pass on the milk..

[freepelican]

If you get raw milk, it does not spoil but it will culture into something that is like yogurt, only the best yogurt you've ever had!

[TabulaRasa]

There is shelf-stable milk.

[zinsavage123]

Good question. Not sure I would want to know. Love my cold milk and just used to it at this point lol,

[hey teach]

I have an old diary from the Civil War era. The writer talks of putting a bucket of milk "down the well" to keep it from spoiling. I assume this means they used a rope to lower the bucket of milk down into the water. My husband grandpa used to put his lunch bucket in the creek when he would work fields too far away to go back to the house for dinner. The water kept the metal bucket and the food cool.

[WoodstockSchool1980]

Yogurt.

[NCN]

We didn't have electricity until I was five years old. We did have a spring house with water flowing out of the side of the mountain that was ice cold. We kept milk and butter in the ice cold water. That would be the same as putting it down in the well.

[mingna]

for milk:
1. Pasteurization
2. Irradiation (good use for that UV lamp you may have lying around!)
3. Sterilization using a pressure cooker (destructive to nutritive quality and taste tho)
4. Filtration into a sterile container such as canning jar

for other foods:
1. Air drying (like jerky)
2. Salting
3. Liberal spice rubs (some spices more effective than others)
4. Irradiation