Can you freeze milk to make it last longer?

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I've not often heard of anyone freezing milk like you'd freeze raw meat or something, but I don't think that there'd be anything wrong with it. I have a gallon of milk with the expiration date being tomorrow, and there's no way I'll be able to use it all by tomorrow or the day after. That's why I am considering freezing like at least half of that gallon. Also, will milk be safe to drink a day or two past the date as long as there's no rank sour odor?

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  • jethro
    6 years ago

    No I just buy less quantities of milk and buy it more often if I have to. I do, however, freeze my bread and thaw out what I need, as i need it. I don't go through it that fast. And you can't buy a small loaf to compensate.

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  • Nickvey
    6 years ago

    Boil it killing all bacteria , add vinegar clotting it into cheese. add salt to taste. now you extended the shelf life without costing you shit. you no longer have milk , but you now have free cheese.

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    • Algum
      6 years ago

      I like your idea. Not the adding vinegar part to make cheese, that probably won't turn out quite right. But I will boil it to kill the germs. Isn't that what people did with spoiled milk and food like 100 years ago before there were refrigerators? My grandmother used to tell me when she was a kid in the early 1920s, her mom would brush maggots off the meat and boil it real good and still eat it. It still wouldn't taste or smell good but the boiling would have killed the bad germs. She told me spoiled meat would only make you deathly ill if it wasn't boiled and cooked all the way through

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      • Nickvey
        6 years ago

        that true about rotting meat. survival tactic . any acid will curdle milk the boiling drives off the odor and not much is used.

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  • Tealights
    6 years ago

    It's too close to expiring, freezing it will not save it.

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    • Algum
      6 years ago

      Is it OK just 2 or 3 days past the expiration date if there's no rank odor yet?

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      • Tealights
        6 years ago

        It won't smell good. My parents had me pretty young, so I still remember the dumb shit they did in their 20s and freezing milk before it expired was one of them. It smelled awful and I refused to taste it. They end up throwing it out.

        Personally, I just buy organic milk. Sure it's like 3 something, but it last for months.

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  • charli.m
    6 years ago

    You can but the quality will be affected.

    You can also drink it after the useby as long as it isn't off. The printed useby is usually not exact and it will be good for longer than it says.

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  • Ratmangaybasher
    6 years ago

    There is an expiration date on certain foods for a reason. Milk is not meant to be frozen and powdered milk tastes like shit. I wouldn't take a chance drinking expired milk but you do you.

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    • Algum
      6 years ago

      What if it still smells OK? Should you still not drink it past the date?

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      • wigz
        6 years ago

        If it tastes good still then it's still good. Who cares what the date says? In my experience, it lasts a week to 10 days past the date at least.

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        • Algum
          6 years ago

          I don't know about 10 days, but I think now that 2, may've 3 days will still be OK if milk doesn't have an odor.

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  • wigz
    6 years ago

    Yes, you sure can freeze it and it will come out fine.

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  • Justmehere
    6 years ago

    I do it all the time. Just have to thaw it out and make shake it up to reconstitute it. Saves having to run out to the store just for milk when you run out or are low.

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  • bogbrush
    6 years ago

    I freeze milk often and it's just fine.

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  • rayb12
    6 years ago

    Yes

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  • RoseIsabella
    6 years ago

    Smell it, and maybe taste it as well. It could be bad already.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    6 years ago

    yall aint a baby cattle so why drank milk?

    drank water

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    • RoseIsabella
      6 years ago

      Milk is delicious!

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
        6 years ago

        replace calcium salts with sodium salts and milk becomes almost chemically identical to sweat

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        • Algum
          6 years ago

          I'll drink sweat as long as I don't eat off the sidewalk, especially a sidewalk where people are always walking their dogs. Lol. Just making a joke about ur name. Haha

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        • RoseIsabella
          6 years ago

          I know what you're trying to do, and it won't work, because I still love cow's milk.

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          • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
            6 years ago

            oh shit yall figgered out im an anti dairy agent provocateur

            *hides under blanket and eats cheese*

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