Is all milk the same?

Steve_xx

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Personally I wouldn't want to drink almost month-old milk and buy fresh almost every other day.

How do you know how old the milk that you do buy is?

Steve_xx

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

Not all milk available in the UK is the same. Arla milk for instance is Danish, probably why it's so cheap in the supermarkets. In Denmark cows are kept indoors all year round - so no nice lush pasture for the Arla cows then.

It doesn't stack up to be cheaper if it's produced in Denmark. There will be import duty, not to mention the poor exchange rate.

geordie_joe

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

Arla milk for instance is Danish,

What makes you think it is Danish? Their web site indicates that the company, and it's suppliers are totally British and the milk they use comes from British farms.

Mk14:37

Steve_xx wrote: »

It doesn't stack up to be cheaper if it's produced in Denmark. There will be import duty, not to mention the poor exchange rate.

No import duty on goods from the EU.

MrsE_2

Confuzzled wrote: »

normally i'd say tastewise milk is milk but cravendale is def a few steps above. however they don't pasteurise instead they use a complex filtering system instead, it def tastes creamier but i'm not sure if it's homoginised or not, regardless on the rare occassions i buy fresh milk (normally use uht which tastes creamier to me and can be bought in bulk for the store cupboard) i like to get cravendale, i see it as a treat

I buy Cravendale or shops own extra filtered.

Stompa

MrsE wrote: »

I buy Cravendale or shops own extra filtered.

FWIW I noticed yesterday that Aldi have started selling filtered milk, IIRC it was £1.29 for 2L.

easy

When milk is extra filtered, what are they actually filtering out?

After all, we have very good health & food regulations in the UK, which makes sure that ALL the milk we buy in regular retail outlets is free of foreign matter that would make us ill (that's why it has to be pasteurised now to go thru the main retail process).

So if they are filtering it again, aren't they taking out more of the nutritious stuff too, as well as whatever they perceive to be nasty (the stuff that makes it go off)?

Personally, I don't see the point .....

Standard, pasteurised homogonised milk lasts more than a week in the fridge anyway, and the rate we drink it, I don't have room to stock more than we can get thru in a single week.

Stompa

easy wrote: »

When milk is extra filtered, what are they actually filtering out?

I believe they pass it through a bacterial filter. Reducing the amount of bacteria means it lasts longer.

geordie_joe

easy wrote: »

After all, we have very good health & food regulations in the UK, which makes sure that ALL the milk we buy in regular retail outlets is free of foreign matter that would make us ill (that's why it has to be pasteurised now to go thru the main retail process).

Pasteurisation doesn't get rid of all the "nasties", it just reduces them to a level where they won't cause us harm if we store/use the milk correctly.

easy

Stompa wrote: »

I believe they pass it through a bacterial filter. Reducing the amount of bacteria means it lasts longer.

geordie_joe wrote: »

Pasteurisation doesn't get rid of all the "nasties", it just reduces them to a level where they won't cause us harm if we store/use the milk correctly.

So "extra filtering" is just adding convenience, because the milk will store longer in the fridge. Nothing else?

As I said above, ordinary pasteurised milk from the supermarket lasts happily for more than a week (routinely has use-by date of 10 days + ), so I don't see the point.
Skimmed + semi-skimmed milk freezes hapily too, if you need to store longer .