Should milk taste fruity?

[B Samurai]

Maybe your milk is having an identity crisis?

 

[Chronotia Archzenom]

Maybe your milk is having an identity crisis?

You mean KAMEN RIDER CRISIS ON MILK?

 

[Poweranimals]

I honestly have never frozen milk myself...because I just drink and drink lots of it -- be it with cereal or by itself:

I know where you're coming from but I have a pretty small fridge atm but a large freezer. It was only in there for a couple days actually. On the bright side, it doesn't smell bad. I've already drank like half of it and it still tastes a bit weird to me but I haven't gotten sick... yet.

OOOH bad idea from a food safety standpoint!

I'm a culinary student, and I've learned that letting food sit out over a 4 hour period of time, between the temperatures of 4-60C or 40-140F will allow the growth of bacteria, and then it's 'not safe' anymore (you may or may not get sick if you consume it after that, but its YOUR call).

Also, you should NEVER defrost anything like meat or dairy at room temperature, it should always be a) defrosted in the fridge or b) defrosted in a sink full of running cold water.

As for the taste of frozen milk I've never personally chosen to freeze milk, and that's a good question that I think I'll bring up to one of my chefs:

Is it safe to freeze milk?

I'll get back to you when I find out. :thumbs:

Well I won't be freezing it again. I figured it would come out the same way it went in, but usually the only dairy products I freeze is ice cream.

 

[Kenori]

It could also depend on what was in your freezer and if the milk jug was open.

I know my grandma is bad about not putting a top over our tea.

I remember we had kraut (Which I don't eat) for supper one night, and she put an open bowl of kraut in the refridgerator with the tea. That was the most god-awful tea I ever drank... *shudders*

 

[Poweranimals]

Come to think of it, it was next to an oreo cake but it wasn't open so I'm not sure if it would matter.

 

[Kenori]

Its probably just a change from frozen to liquid. It may have gotten some water in it or something, and this caused it to taste fruity to you.

I'm not a scientist or anything, but that might be it.

 

[Chronotia Archzenom]

If I answer the question, I say yes! It modifies the taste.

Careful though, if you store it in a very long time, then it'll curdle and taste awful.

 

[DarkWolf]

Sometimes my ice will taste funky after a while because it absorbs the odors of all the junk in my freezer... perhaps that's what happened to your milk?

 

[Poweranimals]

So today's experiment took a rather interesting turn. In an attempt to thaw the milk (I know it's still frozen. Go figure!) I put it in the microwave for about five minutes. It unthawed about halfway but it's basically water now.

 

[PrimoPiccolo]

Whenever you freeze something, moisture's going to accumulate before the ultimate freezing. So what you did was melt the built-up ice into the milk, thus diluting it.