Freezing Milk

zippychick

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

zippy - I can see you're online - want to add your opinion

ohhhhhh! funny pants !:p:rotfl:

MummyEm

Hi

Sorry if this has been asked before, I'm sure I've read somewhere on here but cannot find it now!
I have picked up some reduced price single pints of milk from c*-*p this morning which we will not use before they go off. I want to freeze them have never tried before.
My question - Can I just chuck them in the freezer as they are? Will the containers split due to the expansion as they freeze? Should I pour a little out of each bottle or just go for it?
Whilst they were cheap, I don't really want them going to waste, and I really don't want to be clearing up loads of smelly milk!

thanks

lola34

Our milk froze itself outside over Christmas, the plastic itself expanded but didn't split or anything, I can recall somewhere reading that if frozen it should be upright - don't know if this is still true, just give it a good shake when its defrosted. It should be ok

bryanb

We use frozen bottles of milk to keep meat etc fresh on our journeys to France, just freeze normally. None have split yet.

Penelope_Penguin

MummyEm wrote: »

My question - Can I just chuck them in the freezer as they are?

You can They have a small space at the top of the carton for the milk to expand into. I'll add this to the existing thread later.

sexki11en

Yeah, we regularly buy the 4 pint ones from Farmfoods and chuck them in the chest freezer. Haven't had one split yet.....

SK x

cyberbob

I freeze milk all the time. Never had one split. If it's Homogenised Milk (most is nowadays) Just remember to shake it when it's defrosted to mix it back up.

Jolaaled

I put my 4 pt cartsons straight into the freezer too...I lay the bottles on their side, (my freezer doesn't have enough space to stand upright and I don't think it's necessary either).
Never ever had a bottle split.

When it comes to the defrost, i find that placing the frozen bottle in a bucket of cold water works far better than just leaving the bottle out in the air..I seem to get a more even defrosting and less chance of the milk separating.

HTH

life_in_termoil

I put mine straight into the freezer to and have never had any problems x

MummyEm

Have put them in the freezer now. I love the xmas and NY period just for all the extra whoopsies due to all the early closures!

Thanks for all the replies guys it's so great to have somewhere I can ask all my daft questions, DH just thinks I'm mad!