A Milk Experiment

[Star Creek Dexters]

A few months ago I read an article about the difference in pasteurized milk and raw milk spoiling. It said that pasteurized milk spoils because all the good bacteria are dead and it is a breeding ground for bad, where as raw milk does not "spoil" in a sense as it just continues to grow good bacteria as it ages.

So we decided to experiment. I left a 1/2 gallon of raw milk in the back of our refrigerator for the past 10 weeks, undisturbed. This morning we pulled it out, shook it up....took a deep breath....opened the lid...stuck our noses in...took a sniff...and it smelled SWEET! Like a combination of yogurt and milk. No sour smell at all.

How would pasteurized milk smell after 10 weeks in the back of a refrigerator?

[Olga]

Here is another experiment. I took a gallon of milk fresh from the cow and left it on my kitchen table to sour, covered by a cheesecloth to keep dust and flies out. A week later it wasn't clabbered, not even sour yet, because the cream formed a thick protective seal over the milk. Darn!

[Star Creek Dexters]

That's a good one, Olga. I've had the same type of thing happen. Lovin' raw milk!