Can milk be preserved?

Stored under vacuum conditions?

Stored in the freezer?

In a cooler fridge so it'll last a few days longer than the expiration date?

Worst case scenario is I'll just buy the hormone infested version and hope I don't grow an udder... :eyes:

only by making it into cheese. Not helpful in your morning coffee, I realize...

edit: spelling

what we need is a mooooovement

you done kill me. :^)

And don't ask me how that works.

Or vacuum-packed milk, I believe that exists as well?

Why do you ask?

AKA buttermilk seems to last forever in the fridge, but that's probably because it's already "spoiled" when you bring it home.

Milk can be frozen but it will seperate and undo the Homogenizing process. This will make it taste "funny", but you won't get sick.

Milk is pastuerized, therefore killing most of the bacteria load, before it is packaged. The better the package the longer the shelf-life. If you intend to keep milk around, buy the cardboard cartons and don't open them until you intend to use it up. These are sealed to a much higher degree then the plastic jugs. Keep it Cold!!! Every minute above 40 degrees decreases shelf-life by about an hour.

The last possiblity is to find shelf-stable packaging, you can sometimes find it larger grocery stores. It can be stored for long periods of time at room temperature. Before you turn nose up at that thought, it is not irradiated or genetical modified or anything like that, it is simply ultra-pastuerized. The process heats the milk to a very high temperature (about 250 degrees) and holds it long enough to get a nearly complete kill of the bacteria and then the milk is packaged in sterilized containers.

Whats up with that? How on earth can a family with children keep up? Soon milk and gas prices will be the same! I guess its back to powdered milk, or the shelf carton. Yogurt and cheese also sky high! Maybe we.d better invest in a cow, got 2 acres here in Fl.

Peak oil. Our economy hanging on a thread. Taxes being shifted to the middle class, where their jobs are being shipped overseas. Corporate america is engineering the destrction of the United States as we know it, to re-create it as a nation of monopolies under martial law. Patriot Act, DMCA, et al, are turning this country fascist in order to keep the few who survive under their control.

Of course, that's hyperbole. It's just possible everybody's letting their greed run unchecked and I'm clutching at straws... That doesn't do a society good either, greed...

But either way, unless there's a gigantic paradigm shift to counter everything of the last 24 years, America's going to be a'changin' and we are superfluous. :shrug:

I'm not sure why people drink so much of it. I do miss cereal, but milk is NOT something we need after we are weaned as babies. Calcium? try vegetables and a balanced diet, but most importantly resistance exercise.

It's milk made from soybeans, and most everyone that tastes it says they prefer it over milk. It's also probably better for you too, health wise. It seems like it would have a longer shelf life but not sure on that.

it's not so bad for coffee or some kinds of cooking.

It's not cheaper than milk around here, though.

And really could not taste any difference.