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SVcummins · Mar 10, 2022

Can you deep freeze it ?

DoubleO7 · Mar 10, 2022

is

They use to sell "ice milk" as a cheapo ice cream.

redforlife · Mar 10, 2022

Grandma use to freeze milk (store bought) all the time. Buy 4 or 5 gallons when she was in town. Leave one thawed out when she got home. Throwed the extra jugs in the freezer. I never thought it tasted quit right once re-thawed. But, it didn't seem to hurt it much.
That said, I think she done this with low fat milk. Not sure I would want to do it with whole milk or half and half.

mudcreek183 · Mar 10, 2022

Yes wife and I do it all the time, she will buy a gallon and divide into thirds and freeze 2/3 all the time.

Kansas4010 · Mar 10, 2022

Used to do it all the time. Lately though it gets the chunks in it afterwards. Never used to.

gmccool · Mar 10, 2022

Sure you can freeze it. When I lived in Faro Yukon Canada I used to buy 12-16 gal as I only went to town every 3 months or so. You have to pour some of it into old jugs as it will expand when it freezes. When you thaw it out let it set in the fridge for a week before you need it to completely thaw out and shake it up good because the milk-cream part of it will thaw out faster than the water part of milk. I thought it lost some of its taste but when you lived in the bush like we did it was that or nothing.

SVcummins · Mar 10, 2022

I got a glass full right out of the tanker and that was as good
as any milk shake

Bruce from Can. · Mar 10, 2022

When you freeze milk, it does change the structure. But you wont notice much difference just for say drinking a glass, or cooking with it. Now if you are wanting to make cheese from milk that has been frozen, or separate the butter fat, or try to homogenize the milk like they do in a milk plant, it wont work very well.

Gambles · Mar 10, 2022

We do it. Buy 4-5 of them and thaw one as needed. That being said, it sometimes tastes just a little different. Weve also has a jug split once or twice, so we put the jug in a dish when we thaw it.

Rich'sToys · Mar 10, 2022

(quoted from post at 21:40:32 03/10/22) When you thaw it out let it set in the fridge for a week before you need it to completely thaw out and shake it up good because the milk-cream part of it will thaw out faster than the water part of milk.

As mentioned, let it get completely thawed out, then shake it up good.
We don't freeze it on purpose, but have had it happen a few times. It needs to be shaken up good to re-mix it.

SVcummins · Mar 10, 2022

Do you just throw the jug in the freezer and let it freeze ?

phil25 · Mar 11, 2022

yes freezing works, trivia info...on board the ship we froze enough 20liter poly bags in a cardboard boxes for up to a 6 month trip, a week to thaw out a box and as said it expands, so tightly packed milk boxes do not want to come out of storage, it was normal to destroy one just to start the removal process.
Then the UHT.. ultra high temp milk came on line, no freezing and long time storage, the taste is similar to frozen milk, you get used to it.
From freshly hand squeezed to UHT over the years, whole to skim, its all from the udder..

keep your stick on the ice

SVcummins · Mar 11, 2022

What ship was it ? I dont mind the ultra cooked stuff at all its not as good as off the bottom of a milk tanker but its good . Kinda like a spud I like fresh from under the hill or dehydrated or frozen or canned

Tom Massachusetts · Mar 11, 2022

(reply to post at 07:59:15 03/11/22) [/quot When we had a milk man, back in the 50's, he would leave it in the milkbox on the back steps. When we got home ,late evening, it would be frozen with the cream and cap sticking out of the bottle. This was in the winter in PA.
We never noticed a difference in the taste.

miangus · Mar 11, 2022

I would take a little out of each jug. I used to freeze orange juice when my daughter and I vacationed in Canada and use it to keep the meat cold. I had to take a little out of each jug to keep the cap from blowing off. quart jugs worked better. I know people who used to freeze collosturum for orphaned calves, they didn't seem to mind.

caterpillar guy · Mar 11, 2022

Yup it can be done. After having had milk straight from the cow to the refrigerator,it is hard to drink this store bought stuff. I can't drink that water milk. Will work in products like pudding or cookies not to drink though. Pitch a nickel in and read the date junk is just water milk. Whole milk if I have to drink milk. Froze milk works for lots of baking and such even in malts or cakes cookies.

Geo-TH,In · Mar 11, 2022

It tastes better if you thaw it before you drink it...lol.

phil25 · Mar 11, 2022

you have excellent taste in spuds too, fresh dug and eyes open as it goes in the pot.

Here's the trivia info:
The ship is a Canadian ice breaker/Heavy Artic Class, we would leave in late June and return late Nov, the Artic would be froze as we got near and open water over summer and back to froze as we left.
The name is CCGS Louis S.St-Laurent, we did the North Pole in 1994 with the USCG Polar Sea, science program. and found the Russian Nuke breaker YAMAL' there doing a tv broadcast show for the year of the children.
And contrary to beliefs that coke products were special to the people for trade purposes..it was Pepsi products that actually got the trade's going ..

, Coke drink was common as they had production set up for years in the country, probably right after the WWII times.
have a good one.

caterpillar guy · Mar 11, 2022

I didn't see where anybody was trying to drink it before it thawed out. I was referring to using frozen milk for cooking/baking it will not make a difference in the taste of things. IT does need to be thawed out first unless you cut the jug apart then chip off what you want.

jacksun65 · Mar 11, 2022

When I was a kid we only went to town once a month. Mom would buy six gallons of milk and four went into the freezer. It was a heck of a lot better than powdered milk

Bill(Wis) · Mar 11, 2022

Yes. My wife did it a lot when our kids were growing up. She'd buy a lot of gallon jugs and freeze them because she hated to shop. Still does. Works fine.

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