What's your milk of choice?

[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

Breast milk from a Cambodian immigrant.

 

[NickyJ]

I know this is about whole and the percentage milks, but there's a Canadian I know, and he and the people in his town are all so used to drinking chocolate milk that they all call unflavored milk "white milk". I have asked every other Canadian I know, and they say he's alone. Anyone else here who's alone together with him?

 

As for 2% vs. whole, I can drink either and hardly tell the difference. If I switch, I notice it for a day or two. Then it's just milk.

 

1% isn't milk.

[Riggo-toni]

I love good cheeses, like pecorino romano, aged or smoked Gouda, mozzarella di bufala, but the only thing I would ever use milk for is hot cocoa.  I used to add half and half, but to keep my cholesterol down I had to switch to Macadamia nut milk.

[CobraCommander]

5 hours ago, Dan T. said:

BTW, what's the deal with buttermilk?

Traditionally it’s what left over after turning milk into butter and letting it sit to ferment and thicken. Another of milks delicious byproducts.

 

Without milk we wouldn’t have cheese, whipped cream, buttermilk pancakes or buttermilk fried chicken.

 

Milk is such a great ingredient as is buttermilk. Nowadays buttermilk is just milk that gets fermented with the same cultures used to make yogurt. 

[skinsmarydu]

I love yogurt and cottage cheese too...my husband had never tried it in his whole life when I got some while we were living in Savannah, around '08...he said it was disgusting.  I eat a small custard cup with a banana as a snack almost on the daily. 

[Forehead]

Man, I am the opposite of most of the posters in here.  I went through 2-3 gallons of milk a week growing up by myself.  My parents had me on skim the entire time so it is what I'm used to, but anything up to 2% I can drink.

 

Clearly not lactose intolerant.  If the whole calcium thing isn't exaggerated, my bones are probably made of iron by this point.

 

As an adult, I don't drink nearly as much.  Just in coffee or an occasional shake.

[CobraCommander]

11 minutes ago, Forehead said:

 

 

Clearly not lactose intolerant.  If the whole calcium thing isn't exaggerated, my bones are probably made of iron by this point.

 

 

[NickyJ]

A Brit just shared a cheat sheet with me, and the milk stands out.

 

Spoiler

 

Where did the Brits go wrong to measure milk in pints. Pint sized vs half gallon sized is a world of difference and pint sized is the wrong side of different.

[TradeTheBeal!]

22 hours ago, Dan T. said:

BTW, what's the deal with buttermilk?

No.

[The 12th Commandment]

Buttermilk as an ingredient is fine, from biscuits on down.  As for the folks who drink it straight...ewww.  

 

Pro tip:  half a teaspoon of white vinegar in a cup of milk makes a usable buttermilk.

[CobraCommander]

If Cal Ripken Jr is wrong then I don’t want to be right.

 

 

 

Edited December 16, 2023 by CobraCommander