Milk

[SaraSara]

It's is so good to hear something like that.

When I first got to New York I had to take the bus in Manhattan to look for work. My English was nonexistent, so my husband would print the job addresses in a piece of paper for me. I would board the bus, show the driver the paper, and point towards me and towards the bus door. He would nod his head and motion for me to stay right behind him.

There were always elderly ladies with blueish hair and rhinestone glasses riding the crosstown bus. They would get curious about all this gesturing and would ask the driver what was going on. As soon as they knew, ejecting me from the bus at the right stop became a group effort.

Now, every time I hear Args. complain about how cold Americans are, I remember those kindly blue-haired ladies.

 

[Katser]

What are you, five years old? It's chocolate milk. Settle down.

Forgive me I forgot that we’re only allowed to complain on this forum.

I also forgot that chocolate milk has that age label on it that means after the age of 10 it’s illegal to enjoy it. Damn bureaucrats and their crazy laws!

 

[argsteve]

drink wine!!!!

 

[Bajo_cero2]

If milk taste different in Argentina this is because cows eat grass.

I am Argentinian, I lived abroad many times. The worst dairy products I ever tried are the americans, specially butter.

I used to prepare homemade dulce de leche when I was living in NYC. I needed 30% more milk because milk had water. Butter was a huge issue because the quality was so poor.

We were running an alfajores bussisness, so my experience was from inside the Industry. Products from restaurant depot and Cosco sucks.

 

[jp]

I'm guessing they bought UHT without realising.

Milk tastes fine to me, compared to anywhere else I've ever drunk milk.

 

[davonz]

The thing i have noticed here is that milk, even in the plastic bags seems to taste a bit like UHT (ultra heat treated), which does taste different. Ultrapasteurizada homogeneizada i have noticed is on all the milk i have bought in the plastic bags. Ultra-pasteurized milk has been heated to a minimum of 88°C (191°F), which can make it taste cooked to some people, like UHT.

Vitamin's are also added to most milk here, which can change the taste.

Bajo_cero2 how do you make dulce de leche ?

 

[Gaucho Sam]

(in brazil i once bought salt thinking it was sugar hehe, the packaging of the salt there is the same as the packaging we use here for the sugar. Made my self a smoothie with tons of "sugar" as i like it and started chugging it heehehhe. needless to say what happend next :x )

When I was at uni, one of my friends got high and was hungry. I was in the kitchen getting some food at the time, and he came in to join me and took a pint of milk out the freezer, poured it into a pint glass, and said, 'when you've been smoking and got the munchies, milk is SO nice...' and proceeded to down the whole pint of milk in one. About two seconds later he looked at and went, 'that milk is off,' and immediately legged it for the toilet. I laughed.

Regarding the comment one or two up, milk in bags is something I'll never understand. I don't agree with the OP here, I think the milk's absolutely fine - although artificially adding the vitamins does affect the taste, I don't think it does so massively - but milk in bags?! Ye gods...

 

[mini]

The thing i have noticed here is that milk, even in the plastic bags seems to taste a bit like UHT (ultra heat treated), which does taste different. Ultrapasteurizada homogeneizada i have noticed is on all the milk i have bought in the plastic bags. Ultra-pasteurized milk has been heated to a minimum of 88°C (191°F), which can make it taste cooked to some people, like UHT.

AFAIK it IS all UHT. Am I wrong with this?

Bajo_cero2 how do you make dulce de leche ?

Put a can of condensed sweetened milk in boiling water for 3 hrs.

"drop a can of condensed milk in a pot of boiling water, and boil for 3 hrs. Make sure the can is always completely submerged, and after boiling, don't open the can until it has cooled."

 

[Gaucho Sam]

Mini, you can do it with actual milk as well though, which is what I assume bajo_cero 2 means, since she talks about using milk to make it. You heat it up on the stove with some brown sugar or something, but I'll let BC2 explain because the one time I tried it (with some help from my Argentine then-girlfriend!) it got very, very messy indeed. A hint: if you don't get it just right, you may have to buy a new saucepan.

 

[davonz]

UHT: The milk has to be heated to 135°C (275°F), to kill everything in the milk..
Ultra-pasteurized: The milk is heated to a minimum of 88°C (191°F).
Pasteurized: Heated to a minimum of 71°C (161°F).

The heating changes the taste of the milk, the hotter the more the change, and the hotter the longer the shelf life. UHT will last up to 9 months i think not opened.


And from the NET !!!

The common different and increasing levels of pasteurization recorded on manufactured milk based products are:

• Pasteurized: Most common, requires refrigeration to prolong it's life.
• Ultra-Pasteurized, gives longer refrigerated shelf life, thus common on products that are consumed or sold slower such as creams and organic milk.
• Ultra Heat Treated or UHT, has years of shelf life without refrigeration, common where milk is not common or logistics of getting Pasteurized milk or other products is problematic.