Milk with a great taste
By shelagh77
@shelagh77 (3643)
October 25, 2007 10:56pm CST
I like milk and usually have supermarket semi skimmed. Other Half read about Cravendale milk where they filter the milk to make it taste better.
It also costs more so I was a bit peeved when he bougt it as we are in our pre Christas watching the pennies so we can buy tins of biscuits etc whilst they are on offer.
However, I have to take back every word because it really DOES taste different, nicer and better. Apparently the filtering also gets rid of more bacteria so the milk lasts longer, but we like the stuff so much it is drunk long before we can check out that claim.
I wondered if anyone else finds filtered milk exceptionally nice.
3 responses
@shelagh77 (3643)
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12 Nov 07
I believe it is an English product but the type of milk you are describing may well be produced by the same technique. Whatever they do to it, I can't get enough of the stuff so it is probably fortunate that I can only get it when I do the monthly shop, or I should be round as a little barrel lol.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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12 Nov 07
That is a shame, it really does taste different. Do you know if they have filtered milk where you are because that is what the sales blurb alleges makes the difference in taste, the milk is ultra pure.
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
16 Nov 07
Reading this, I'm wondering if some of the dairies don't filter the milk (on this side of the ditch) and not tell us because there is a vast difference in taste. I grew up on a dairy farm and am most particular about milk. If it tastes off, I won't drink it, so when we are in California the ONLY milk I will drink is Strauss Family Dairy's organic cream top in the glass bottles. However, we cannot get it at the rural Arizona home where we "winter."
But Wal-Mart, believe it or not, sells a brand called Stremick that for some reason tastes so sweet and fresh that I am continually amazed how good it is, although it had better be for the price we pay. I know from personal experience that what the animals eat makes a big difference in the taste. But filtering? What a concept. The reviews do make it sound like it is worth bringing all the way from Denmark to sample:
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Cravendale_Milk__5318328
But here is what I would do. Instead of selling the glass bottles back to the store when we leave California each fall, I save a bunch of them and bring them to Arizona. The day we go to the market I put 2 clean quart bottles in the fridge and as soon as we get home I would pour the stuff in a plastic bottle or carton into the glass. That way is keeps on tasting good after opening, stays fresh longer, and reminds me that we'll be getting the Strauss dairy milk again when the trees leaf out in the spring.
