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Are you talking about how long milk lasts UNOPENED or after you open the container?
Ultrapasteurized milk already has a long Use By period. I find that it also lasts longer after opening than the regular kind. I just used some from a bottle that had been opened maybe two weeks before. However, its Use By date is in July! I don’t expect it will stay good till then because it has been opened.
I also transport perishables in coolers with ice packs from the store to the house. Even if we run other errands with food in the cooler, at least the food remains cooler than it would without it.
Fresh milk goes bad in just one day without pasteurization. Even when they are pasteurized it lasts no more than 2 weeks. For milk to last more than that it requires ultra pasteurization and majority of organic milks are preserved that way to make them last longer.
Are you talking about how long milk lasts UNOPENED or after you open the container?
Ultrapasteurized milk already has a long Use By period. I find that it also lasts longer after opening than the regular kind. I just used some from a bottle that had been opened maybe two weeks before. However, its Use By date is in July! I don’t expect it will stay good till then because it has been opened.
I also transport perishables in coolers with ice packs from the store to the house. Even if we run other errands with food in the cooler, at least the food remains cooler than it would without it.
It’s after opening and it’s not ultrapasturized. It’s the same milk I always buy (which often doesn’t even make it to the “use by” date. As of this morning, it is still perfectly fine — two weeks and two days after the “use by” date.
Has anyone else noticed that their milk is now staying fresh way, way after the stamped expiration date? I’m having breakfast with milk that was stamped 4/21 and it is still 100% fine, not even slightly off. This also happened with the previous container. Before this, I was lucky if it was still fresh a day or two after the sell by/use by date, not two weeks!
I am wondering if with the huge general rush in grocery shopping, this milk somehow moved through the supply line more quickly, so it spent less time in storage somewhere along the line.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I’m asking partly because we also turned our fridge to a colder setting a little while ago (can’t remember exactly when), so it would make sense that it would keep the milk fresher longer, but two weeks longer? Really?
So, is it my fridge? Or just fresher milk from the store? Or maybe both?
Yes. I noticed that too.
I normally buy raw milk from a farmer, but sometimes for cooking I buy an organic milk from the supermarket and it stays fresh very long. Same store, same brand, same container, same fridge, same temperature settings.
It used to get spoiled even before the fresh date, now stays unspoiled way after, week or even two. I did wonder if they are processing it differently, although it's organic milk and it shouldn't.
It's a gallon jar, and it gets opened several times before the jar is emptied.
Fresh milk goes bad in just one day without pasteurization. Even when they are pasteurized it lasts no more than 2 weeks. For milk to last more than that it requires ultra pasteurization and majority of organic milks are preserved that way to make them last longer.
Not necessary. I buy fresh, raw milk from a farm and it last in the fridge 7-10 days after opening.
Has anyone else noticed that their milk is now staying fresh way, way after the stamped expiration date? I’m having breakfast with milk that was stamped 4/21 and it is still 100% fine, not even slightly off. This also happened with the previous container. Before this, I was lucky if it was still fresh a day or two after the sell by/use by date, not two weeks!
I am wondering if with the huge general rush in grocery shopping, this milk somehow moved through the supply line more quickly, so it spent less time in storage somewhere along the line.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I’m asking partly because we also turned our fridge to a colder setting a little while ago (can’t remember exactly when), so it would make sense that it would keep the milk fresher longer, but two weeks longer? Really?
So, is it my fridge? Or just fresher milk from the store? Or maybe both?
If your store keeps the milk cold it will last longer in your fridge. I carry mine home in a "cold" bag. also the higher the fat content, the more chance your milk will spoil. (skim, 1% 2%, whole milk). Skim milk lasts the longest. The expiration date is your nose. If it sours throw it out.
If your store keeps the milk cold it will last longer in your fridge. I carry mine home in a "cold" bag. also the higher the fat content, the more chance your milk will spoil. (skim, 1% 2%, whole milk). Skim milk lasts the longest. The expiration date is your nose. If it sours throw it out.
and taste, even if you can't smell it taste a small amount. Your taste buds will quickly tell you if it is off. Milk unopened can last beyond the use by date if it was kept in temperatures properly; however, it should only last 7 days after opening although it can be ok longer.
The store ran out of milk so I bought 1 qt of light cream, I kept adding water and ended up with 2 gals of what looks like 1% milk, it works perfectly in an automatic cappucino maker, lots of thick foam.
So milk now costs me $1 a gallon.
No more lugging milk at 8lbs per gal.
The store ran out of milk so I bought 1 qt of light cream, I kept adding water and ended up with 2 gals of what looks like 1% milk, it works perfectly in an automatic cappucino maker, lots of thick foam.
So milk now costs me $1 a gallon.
No more lugging milk at 8lbs per gal.
I think, you are making... something, but that's not a 1% milk. Milk isn't watered down cream. It is dairy with much less milkfat. Adding water to cream just makes watered-down cream. You could put watered cream in your coffee, and it might taste okay, but it wouldn't taste like milk.
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