Farmers of BCF

[WD Forte]

No I'm not going on your land
What I want to know is
Does all milk come from cows?

OK its a bit weired but the milk I buy from the local shop
seems to make my tea taste different than the milk I get from Morrisons/Tesco
My tea often tastes a bit 'powdery' and Marvel comes to mind
while Morrisons/Tesco milk tastes well..... milky
I only ever buy semi skimmed BTW if that make any difference

Are there processes involved in the making of cheap ass milk a city boy
wont be aware of?
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[Ste]

"Does all milk come from cows? "

[c_dug]

I recently learned that some milk is pretty much fresh from the cows, whereas some is reduced down to powder and then turned to milk when needed by adding water.
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[MCN]

There are many things that can affect milk properties.

One thing is the grass/feed.
Milk from cows that eat grass will taste milky.
Milk from cows that eat other cows will taste meaty.
Milk from a coconut will taste nutty.
Milk from a Knob (I'm told) tastes salty.

Apart from the skim process where water is 'dripped into atomised whole milk to dilute and break up the fat globules milk is milk.

Look at the sugars, protein and fat contents or where the milk is farmed.

And buy Cravendale.
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[MattEMulsion]

Milk is a bit like Petrol, you think its all the same - but its not.
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[MCN]

[stinkwheel]

100% of the content of your milk came out of a cow, unless labelled otherwise.

Some milk is homogenised (they take the fat out then mix it back in at a fixed rate) some is whole.

As MCN says, he cows diet can affect flavour. Feed cows garlick and you get garlicky milk. They pretty much stopped them feeding dairy cows turnips for this exact reason. Supermarket milk is likely to be a blend of many different dairies. Locally produced stuff can come from a single herd and the fat, sugar and protein content can vary across the year.

Heat treating has an affect on the flavour. Even a few degrees diffence in the pasteurisation process can alter the flavour. You'll have seen how different UHT milk tastes compared to fresh.

Freshness will have an effect too. If it's taken longer to get to you, it'll start to sour.

On the subject of semi-skimmed. Why the hell would you drink it?

Whole milk is 4%-ish fat. Semi-skimmed is 2%-ish fat.

The main benefit from drinking milk is it is a good source of fat-soluable vitamins (D in particular and Brits are chronically deficient in vitamin D, especially in winter). So for your 2% reduction in fat, you've got a 50% reduction in fat soluable vitamins.

A massive reduction in nutritional value for a negligable reduction in calorific content.

Only good reason I can think of to drink semi-skimmed is if you preferr the taste.
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[duhawkz]

[Ste]

[neatbik]

A few years ago i lived on a dairy farm, i had a big jug i would go and fill up with milk from the big tank in the milking shed. It tasted amazing, and never did me any harm. Not keen on goats milk though.

[hedgehugger]

Goats milk tastes like goat.
I love goats, just don't want to go around licking them.
Goat's cheese tastes like goat as well.
Never tried goat meat, can only imagine it also tastes like goat.

While all the above is obvious, what is difficult to convey is that I find that goat anything tastes like goat smell. Did that clarify?

[Rogerborg]

[Rob Fzs]

Why anyone wastes their time drinking white water that is semi skimmed milk i do not know

Sainsburies sell unhomogenized jersey milk which is rather creamy, so that might be better if you fancy a change

I'll assume you've fucked up and keep buying Uht which is shite

Different breeds of cows produce different amounts of fat, jerseys give more fat than Holsteins in their milk but Holsteins produce more milk
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[mentalboy]

[WD Forte]

DONT YOU JUDGE ME !!!!


Fact Is I dont drink milk except in tea, only a little then
wouldn't drink a glass of it and will happily drink tea sans milk
(No sugar either yuk!)
But I maintain the local shop milk often tastes 'funny'
and was hoping for a BCF conspiracy theory to explain it.
Gay cows, cut with pig/sheep/goat/rat milk, aliens, pschyoactive drugs to keep the hoi polloi quiet,
milk sourced from johnny foreigner sort of thing.
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[Ste]

Horse milk from Tesco.

[Rob Fzs]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I started having milk delivered a few months ago, in proper glass bottles like the old days. It's not gold top but it still makes Tesco's "whole milk" taste and look like white water. The difference really is surprising. In fact it makes me think Tesco's must take most of the solids out and use it in their processed foods.

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[hellkat]

Got to admit, I have been thinking about gold top milk lately as well...

Milk seems to not be quite so ... thick as it used to be.
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[stinkwheel]

[smegballs]

Bulk-tank milk

[MCN]

+1 for goat milk tasting of goat/sheeps. It smells of it too. And who licks a feckin' goat apart from another goat?

The 'boys' on the rigs in the middle east are fanatical (I know) about camel milk. It is a delicacy.
They'd take the car and disappear for an hour every morning to find a near-by Bedouin camel herder and buy a gallon of milk from them.
I never touched the stuff as the animals are not really vetted nor is the milk pasteurised. And although I never heard (no pun) of anyone coming to harm from drinking it there is probably a risk from the many things we remove from milk to make it safe.
One of the company men used to drink it raw. Probably in an effort to get down with the Saudi crew . He was a bit of a Prize Phanny though.

I do not use any adulterated milk made-up with water. It should be made illegal on a 'weights and measure' basis.

I use whole UHT in the middle east as there are very few dairy cattle due to climate and again, the process from cow to carton is not that safe.

I also use evaporated milk (Carnation) but only in dire emergency. That is made from milk powder that is re-hydrated with purified water then canned.

I was buying UHT from a supermarket in Nigeria but when I opened it and poured it over my Froasties I could taste soap.
I went back to the store and asked for different cartons. The manager took me into the store room to pick my own milk. I found it stacked next to the soap powder.
I told him that was why it tasted like soap. He said, 'I don't know as I don't drink milk.'
Fair enough I thought.
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[MCN]

[andyscooter]

as we live in the country we just pop over the field and milk the nearest cow into our tea
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