Milk - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Pick your favorite bodacious bovine beverage

as far as actual cow squeezin's go, whole milk with chocolate is best. Other kinds of milk I've had are hard to keep track of, but I think almond might be my favorite so far?

Whole....love the cream. What a treat.

big M drinker-- there used to be an Extra Rich variety that was delicious, don't see it much anymore.

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy

^ Ditto.
We have these ready made shakes here in the chiller section that are mega-creamy and delicious, especially the Strawberries & Cream variety. Might have to get me one today.

Whole. Everything else is a con.

Unless you're drinking the stuff neat by the quart then the amount of butterfat you consume in tea or coffee is going to be about the same regardless of the percentage in the carton because you generally use more of the lower fat milks...

For example if you put 15ml of whole milk in your beverage then that contains 0.55gm of butterfat. If you put 15ml of 2% semi-skimmed in your beverage the colour won't be right so you add 7.5ml more - now it has 22.5ml of 2% milk which, (low and behold), now contains 0.55gm of butterfat.

Now the problem is not the fat content because on the face of it the amount of butterfat you consume through drinking milk doesn't add up to a great deal. In a week that's going to be considerably less than what you'd spread on your toast in one morning. You'd need to drink 12.5 litres of 2% milk to consume the same butterfat as a contained in a 250gm pack of butter (21 pints = 8oz of butter). Aside from the on-going debate about whether eating fat makes you fat or not, it's going to take a hell of a lot of milk to make anyone fat.

The problem is the sugar (lactose) content for all these milks is the same - roughly 50gm per litre (or 1oz per pint) regardless of whether it is whole, semi-skimmed or skimmed - so when you add 50% more 2% milk to your tea or coffee not only are you consuming the same amount of fat, you are now consuming 50% more sugar.

Of course most of that is moot if you are drinking lattes all day - but as I said, it isn't the fat content you should be worrying about...

So to recap - if you only use milk to colour your tea of coffee then whole milk is the better option.

What?

Atavachron wrote:

Extra Rich Vitamin D Milk

This is all I could find online, though I rarely see it in stores (probably the silly fat phobia that survives, when most fats don't make you fat)

It's definitely beyond Whole milk, they must add some cream. It is yummy-yummy though I don't know if I could drink it daily.

We have a similar product:

The cream settles to the top just like it used to in the old days when milk was delivered in glass bottles.

5% fat, so as you say - beyond whole milk, I know this as "gold top" thought it is also known as "full-cream". I use this to make rice pudding as it makes the richest, creamiest puds.

To produce this milk they don't necessarily add extra cream. Traditionally the high-cream content would because they used cows that naturally produced a higher fat content such as Jersey or Guernsey (like the one shown on the label).

Interestingly whole, semi-skimmed and skimmed milks are all processed by first removing all the fats and then adding it back in to produce the required fat content so "whole milk" is actually skimmed milk with 3.25% cream added back in.

What?

I need to find some of this super rich milk, it sounds amazing. I should point out, I'm not talking about just a bit of milk to add to Coffee, I'm talking about milk to DRINK with cereal, cookies, or whatever. So at least a nice tall glass per day.

I can't see the point of enjoying milk any other way. Skim milk for me is like drinking half milk, half water, there's no pleasure.

I will find it some super-milk and buy a big chocolate cake.... Big smile

Tried the goat milk a long time ago, it wasn't too bad. Fairly rich.

Soy and Almond I've had as well but can't say I enjoy them.

I voted 2% because you don't have my actual choice, which is 1%.

--
Frank Swarbrick
Belief is not Truth.

Poll Question: Your favorite?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Skim	4	[13.79%]
2%	7	[24.14%]
Whole	8	[27.59%]
Soy Milk	1	[3.45%]
Almond Milk	1	[3.45%]
Goat	1	[3.45%]
Other (specify)	5	[17.24%]
Milk sucks and I hate all kinds	2	[6.90%]
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