Do you drink the milk right up to the expiration date?

[UdoKier]

I don't. Lately, when I buy milk, I can see the date is like 2 weeks in the future! Who the hell wants to drink TWO WEEK OLD milk?! Blech!


If there's any left and it's within four days of reaching the expiry date, I dump it.

[Cannikin]

1. I judge it by smell.

[DeaconBlues]

2. yep, give it the ole sniff test

Sometimes its still good after the expiration date, but sometimes it goes bad before.

[trotsky]

Yep.

If you've kept it at a nice cold temperature consistently (like say 33-35 degrees), it'll be good for long past the "sell by" date.

[billyskank]

14. That's all you need

If it smells like milk and not like...you know...you can drink it!

[SheepyMcSheepster]

3. if milk is bad, you will know it.

you won't be able to get your nose near it.

[UdoKier]

6. It's not that it's necessarily spoiled.

There's just something about eating food that's more than a week old that bugs me. It's like it's old and dead or something. Even if it's not spoiled, I just don't want food that's been dead that long. (unless it's been frozen)

[sui generis]

8. you eat cheese though, right?

very little that grows naturally in milk can make you sick no matter how bad it stinks. Trust your nose. Milk that's a little off almost certainly won't make you sick though.

[UdoKier]

9. But cheese is alive right?

Doesn't it still have cultures in it, like yogurt?

[sui generis]

13. gazillions of little lives all crawling around

shitting crosslinked proteins

:evilgrin:

Okay, what about honey? Bee vomit.

[Ariana Celeste]

4. I never trust milk more than

4 or 5 days.

[norml]

5. Expiration Date?

I check that when I buy, to get the freshest. I toss milk, and other foods, when they go bad. I've bought expired foods, when they're marked down.

[jswordy]

7. There is a brand here called PURITY, and it stays good...

...for 7 days after the "sell by" date on the jug. you can take that to the bank, as long as it has been refrigerated for that time.. It's the only brand I buy anymore. The store brands will be a little cheaper, but they sour very fast.

I drink milk anytime, as long as when I smell it it does not smell sour. Never had a problem.

Most folks don't realize you can actually drink slightly soured milk and it won't hurt ya. But the taste is off, so I don't do that. I have had it in granola, where the cereal masks the taste a bit.

I'm not talking "Ugh, I sniffed it and I wanna PUKE" sour. Just slightly "I dunno" sour. Oh man, good topic for a thread!

[UdoKier]

10. I couldn't even drink slightly sour milk.

Sometimes when it's getting close to the expiry I try to use it in some cooking, so as to kill the little baddies.

[jswordy]

11. OK...

Good milk brands will be fine for 5-7 days after the date. Cheapo brands will sour in 2-3 days after that date.

I've never had a problem, nor has my wife. It's kinda funny for me to see folks say "EEEEWWWWW" to milk that's a touch questionable, then eat yogurt and cottage cheese. LOL. If you can smell that it is sour, it will have the bad bacteria. But if it is just near bad, it contains good flora like you have in your gut all the time...just like yogurt and cottage cheese.

LOL...that reminds me...I have a friend so scared of getting sick, he throws out whatever he has cooked after the first meal...and the man can COOK! So when I am over there, I force him to put it in Ziplocks, we put it in the fridge, then I take it home and eat lunch on it all week. Mmmmm...nothing wrong with it at all.

Last week, he was gonna toss half a bag of half-frozen shrimp that went unused. NO WAY! I put it in the fridge and ate 'em boiled in hot sauce and water the next day. Mmmmm!

[JVS]

12. Past the date

[mcscajun]

15. Here, the milk is rarely dated more than a week ahead, and I sniff it

when it gets to the last day. If it's even slightly off, I either use it in cooking (curry maybe) or dump it.

[salvorhardin]

16. When there's floaties in it. n/t

[MissMillie]

17. It doesn't sit in the fridge that long

I usually buy milk w/ an expiration date of about 10 days ahead... but the milk only lasts 2 days (Max) at my house.

[Maddy McCall]

18. I cook with expired milk.

It's great for biscuits, gravy, and stuff like that. But NOT if it's soured. That's when I toss it.