Aseptic milk?
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Shelf stable. Interesting idea.
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Wow. What a great idea.
For us, there being only two in the house, we always have milk that tends to go bad. I never drink it, but with Grandkids around, it's something you should have on hand. With this, especially if offered in smaller containers, I could keep some in the pantry, and open and refrigerate when needed.
Edit to add: I've also noticed that milk tends to last a lot longer in the fridge than I'm used to. It's not unusual to open a bottle/carton and have it still smelling fine a week beyond its date. Perhaps it's because we don't open it too frequently, so bacterial exposure is limited, though the spoiling presumably occurs because of the bacteria that survived Pasteurization...I dunno.
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It is interesting to be able to have some on hand. I do drink milk, but the gallon often goes bad before I can finish it. You can still keep it cold and ready even though shelf stable, and it may make it cheaper to buy smaller containers that way. It would be logical to be cheaper if they don't have to refrigerate it.
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For a long time, at least overseas, there is UHT milk, which is sold on the shelf and lasts a long time.
It has been around since I was a kid, but for me, the taste is a bit different from "regular" milk.
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Ultra-high temperature, or UHT, milk is ultra-pasteurized milk that comes in sterilized containers.It’s real milk, just like the kind you buy chilled in the dairy aisle, but its special pasteurization and packaging process gives it a shelf life of several months.
UNQUOTEAnother possibility is Fairlife Milk. I had this before in the US, and noticed that the Due Date was three months or so rather than a couple of weeks. I thought the taste was quite good.
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Take some out, put some in...
https://www.delightedcooking.com/what-is-acidophilus-milk.htm
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Or, you could have it with zapped meat...
https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20030709/irradiated-meat-safer-little-off
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Aseptic simply means free from bacteria. The American Dairy Association explains that an advantage of this new ultra-high temperature pasteurization process is that the product needs no refrigeration as long as it remains sealed. The high temps kill off all bacteria in the milk and the product gets an air-tight seal immediately, meaning it won't spoil (via the American Dairy Association).
This is just UHT pasteurization which has been available here for over a decade, and is the dominant form of milk in much of the world,
I often keep a container in the pantry in case I run out of my usual milk. The date is usually 6 months out or so when I buy it.
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Aseptic simply means free from bacteria. The American Dairy Association explains that an advantage of this new ultra-high temperature pasteurization process is that the product needs no refrigeration as long as it remains sealed. The high temps kill off all bacteria in the milk and the product gets an air-tight seal immediately, meaning it won't spoil (via the American Dairy Association).
This is just UHT pasteurization which has been available here for over a decade, and is the dominant form of milk in much of the world,
I often keep a container in the pantry in case I run out of my usual milk. The date is usually 6 months out or so when I buy it.
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@Mik said in Aseptic milk?:
How's the price compared to regular?
In a lot of places overseas, it is cheaper than "regular" milk. I think because in the small stores in villages, it costs money to run the refrigerators, so something they can keep on the shelf is cheaper.
For Fairlife Milk in the US, if I remember, it is about maybe double price of regular milk.
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We always used to take this with us when we went camping. It doesn't taste quite the same as regular milk. It starts off tasting a little worse, but after being kept for a week in a tent, tastes a lot better than regular milk would.
In the UK it costs about the same as regular milk if I remember correctly - they call it long-life milk.
