This grubby-handed gentleman left a jar of raw milk outside, in 90°F heat, for two days, until the solids started to separate, chunks formed, and I see some discoloration appearing, although that could just be from the filthy state of his glassware. He says this is an “experiment.”
I’m not showing you the video, because next…he takes a big swig of the rotten, curdled milk, and I nearly lost it. Would you drink any milk, let alone raw milk, that had been left to fester in the sun for a few days? I wouldn’t make you watch that.
But if you insist, here’s a link to instagram. Mmmm. Warm lumps of slimy coagulated milk.
Then he insists that it was probably better for him than when it was fresh, because the bacteria have had time to culture and develop more complexity. He reassures us that it is totally safe.
The raw milk fanatics are totally insane.
The “you can’t tell me what to do” crowd.
Ah, the onomatopoeic title makes sense, now.
You just had to post this after I’ve returned home with ice cream.
Even in middle school science class, when our science teacher showed us how to make yogurt, she told us to start with pasteurized milk and then introduce a bit of live yogurt culture so those particular microbes would have a head start.
And, you know, not to eat/drink it unless it looked and smelled like yogurt rather than spoiled milk.
Reminds me of the antivaxxers who caught the Covid-19 virus…and then died.
It is estimated that 400,000 antivaxxers died this way during the pandemic, in the USA.
I even knew a few of them, fortunately, not all that well.
Can’t be nearly as bad as the sandwich scene in Obsession, but I still thank you for not posting the actual video.
I had been drinking kefir (pasteurized) up until recently, which has a strong taste, but I liked it. I stopped due to cost. Kimchi instead.
Back in my weightlifting 20s I used to drink skim milk (pasteurized) by the pint or quart. Swore by the stuff. The thing was I was lazy and would toss the empties in the rear of my car. Imagine taking a whiff out of one of those after days festering in the Florida sun. Drink that? No thanks! Egads the smell!
The only appropriate response.
Definitly not a raw milk fan. They discovered pasteurization for a reason.
With that said, I can understand this.
Back in the 70’s I can remember my Uncle Clark grabbing the milk that was starting to turn and putting it out on a fence post in the sun for a few hours. Once it was curdled up enough for him he would put some black pepper on it and chow down.
In the 40 or 50 years since I have met other people that can remember older relatives and friends that did this.
And one time it was explained to me that as pasteurization has gotten better this went out of fashion. Back then the bacteria produced a taste that some people liked. Now that bacteria is successfully killed and other harder to kill bacteria are what now turn the milk. And not even pepper can make it palatable.
Since he’s starting with raw milk, then he’s going to get that good tasting (??) bacteria turning the milk.
Because of my Uncle Clark I don’t find this disgusting in the slightest. Different tastes for different people. Literally…
Yecch!
;-)
He’s probably been vaccinated against bacteria found in raw milk….oh…..wait….
Let me guess. It’s Robert Kennedy!
No whey!
Well, I guess Humans have experimented with all sorts of fermented dary stuffs throughout prhistoryand into history as soon as we started developing lactose tolerance. I wonder how many have gotten really sick and died in the process? Guess : an awful lot.
That milk fermentation thing discussed (or should that be disgust) here sure doesn’t appeal to me.
90F for a long while is basically how you make yogurt and similar fermented milk products.
At this point, just let natural selection do its thing.
Clearly the devil on his shoulder won that argument. Dude, it’s so wet, it’s ready to go!
The truly distressing thing about it all is that, given the opportunity, they would almost all, collectively, opt to do the most stupid, lethal, things imaginable, and probably wipe themselves out, except a) they haven’t yet come up with something that insane yet, and b) if they did, it would almost certainly involve something that took out the rest of us along with them. I am reminded of the cats from Red Dwarf. Save for the maybe two that staid on board the ship, the rest, if I remember right, tried to leave aboard two small shuttles, following an imaginary map, to a paradise that didn’t exist. One of them immediately hit like an asteroid or something, and the others navigated into a black hole. This is “conservatives”. If someone invented a rule that said, “Only smart people would be allowed to have money.”, they would somehow manage to redefine “smart” as, “Following official propaganda.”, and within a generation only complete nitwits would remain. I.e., these are people that see a dystopia, and see an instruction manual.
Reminds me of a story from Not Always Right were a woman came into a grocery store claiming she was going to sue them because she’d gotten sick after eating lunch meat that she’d deliberately left sitting in her car for three days in the summer to “cure” it.
How do people even come up with the thought process leading to believing that this is somehow a good idea?
The thing about this “experiment” is, if it fails, we won’t hear about it because it’ll be a confidential medical issue.
The technical term for this is clabber, and it does require raw milk in order for it to work. It’s the starting step to make many types of cheese. Washing your hands is also an important and acceptable practice for working with any food preparation method.
As long as your cows are healthy and you practice excellent sanitation, clabber is perfectly safe to eat.
It’s tart and creamy, similar to yogurt and cottage cheese,