Wal-Mart Milk; What is it really?

[mikbone]

I think it has to do with either the high temperature pasteurization or ultra homogenization. This technique denatures the proteins. It gives the milk a longer shelf-life but makes it useless for cheese making.

I think that it has something to do with the world domination schemes of the Triumvirate...

[annewandering]

I have used store milk to make cottage cheese before. Other than that I have no experience with it. Makes me curious if walmart milk would work. Going to have to try it now. lol.

[Smudge]

In the UK we had issues with beef burgers being made of horse meat.

[miztrniceguy]

I cannot make cottage cheese from any whole or 2% milk. It never gets anywhere close to expiring

[talisyn]

One time I bought milk from a store (not Wal-Mart) and it was absolutely disgusting. I looked at the label and it was reconstructed milk. Basically dry milk. I wonder if that kind of milk is what the cheese making people were talking about.

I always read the labels after that

[annewandering]

  talisyn said:

One time I bought milk from a store (not Wal-Mart) and it was absolutely disgusting. I looked at the label and it was reconstructed milk. Basically dry milk. I wonder if that kind of milk is what the cheese making people were talking about.

I always read the labels after that

Same here. It is not impressive.

[bytebear]

Costco milk always tastes funny to me. But I switched to Almond milk about 2 years ago. I will never go back.

[Dravin]

/me pictures bytebear milking his almond herd.

[Milluw]

I don't live in America, so i don't know anything really about walmart.

But i found these facts about things they put into food:

Processed Food Confidential: 20 Gross Food Facts

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6 Gross Food Ingredients You Didn't Know You Were Eating | Reader's Digest

:blink:Eugh!!! .. why would put these things into food!

[Dravin]

About the only thing I find particularly oogy or shocking on those links is the pubic hairs one and it lacks any sort of citation. Not that everything on the list is good mind you.

[dahlia]

  bytebear said:

Costco milk always tastes funny to me. But I switched to Almond milk about 2 years ago. I will never go back.

Here's something weird - I buy almond white milk, but soy chocolate. I got some chocolate from Walmart and actually ended up writing Silk about it because it tasted so strange - like a coconut aftertaste. I wondered if they hadn't washed the vat after making coconut milk or something. I got a coupon from the Silk people for a new one, so that was good.

The other day I got another container of chocolate from Walmart and it also tasted funny. However, when I buy soy or almond from my regional grocery store, it always tastes fine.

Maybe Walmart is doctoring the milk substitutes to make people go back to dairy?

I don't buy white milk, but the idea that Walmart makes it from dried milk sounds all kinds of ewww.

[Milluw]

  Dravin said:

About the only thing I find particularly oogy or shocking on those links is the pubic hairs one and it lacks any sort of citation. Not that everything on the list is good mind you.

Only one i found everything there to be gross, though i already were aware of a few of them.

[Guest]

You can make cheese using the regular Great Value cow's milk - including the skimmed version. Not sure what those guys were talking about...

[miztrniceguy]

  annewandering said:

All you have to do is heat it to break the bonds of the fat from the liquids and then it will make cheese.

If it is true walmart milk cant be used it is probably related to it being reconstituted from dry milk. Dont know if you can make cheese from dry milk but I doubt it.

What is your source for Walmart milk being reconstituted?

[EarlJibbs]

  miztrniceguy said:

What is your source for Walmart milk being reconstituted?

I dont think that she was saying it was reconstituted, just that if it is true that you cannot make cheese from it, it may be because it is reconstituted.

[Dravin]

  Milluw said:

Only one i found everything there to be gross, though i already were aware of a few of them.

I enjoy the end product of a process that consists of squeezing the mammaries of a four legged animal, curdling it, and then using a controlled decay to achieve the desired end product. Gross is relative, and I'm under no illusion that my food is rainbows and glitter. So when you tell me that some food coloring uses shells, rennet is from a calf's stomach, that chicken nuggets are formed from a pureed product, or that some amount of contamination is normal for mass processed foods (or even smaller individual batches), I shrug.

Edited April 30, 2013 by Dravin

[Guest]

  Dravin said:

I enjoy the end product of a process that consists of squeezing the mammaries of a four legged animal, curdling it, and then using a controlled decay to achieve the desired end product. Gross is relative, and I'm under no illusion that my food is rainbows and glitter.

And here I was all comfortable in my culinary superiority because I refuse to eat blood sausage.

[Dravin]

  Eowyn said:

And here I was all comfortable in my culinary superiority because I refuse to eat blood sausage.

Blood sausage is actually pretty good, at least as part of an Irish breakfast.

[EarlJibbs]

  Dravin said:

I enjoy the end product of a process that consists of squeezing the mammaries of a four legged animal, curdling it, and then using a controlled decay to achieve the desired end product. Gross is relative, and I'm under no illusion that my food is rainbows and glitter. So when you tell me that some food coloring uses shells, rennet is from a calf's stomach, that chicken nuggets are formed from a pureed product, or that some amount of contamination is normal for mass processed foods (or even smaller individual batches), I shrug.

So what you are saying is that there are no rainbows involved in processing food huh? Please give me a reference good sir!

[Dravin]

  EarlJibbs said:

So what you are saying is that there are no rainbows involved in processing food huh? Please give me a reference good sir!

Well, I may have to retract my comment in the case of Skittles.