guernseyman
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But few deliver to boats on passage.
Boat milk
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But few deliver to boats on passage.
Chrissie
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Unless the bouncing around on a boat for three weeks starts turning the milk to yoghurt
My milk churned last week on a beat against tide and wind in the Solent, only 9 hours, really spoilt my cup of tea after a long rough sail.
alan_d
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Churning milk gives butter, not yoghourt. Do you profligate lot buy your butter ready-made?
Chrissie
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mine wasnt yoghurt or butter but curds and whey, I have found this problem before, milk still cool and indate, but after a rough passage, spoilt.
BAtoo
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I'm with you on this - its quite OK as a standby, I have a tub on the boat for working days in the winter etc. and use it in tea too when it has a quite "creamy" taste!
Agree also the skimmed UHT is OK and have a couple of half litre bottles as stores.
I think the reason normal milk keeps much longer these days is that its all filtered - not just by Cravendale - during processing and this removes all of the spoilage bugs etc.. One advantage of better technology & food processing. !!
ALPHORA
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If you can get used to the taste Soya milk keeps for months if unopened, we store cartons in a plastic box under the cabin sole.It needs to go in the fridge once started and then lasts a week or so. We find the ones with a bit of added fruit juice and labelled sweetened are the best in tea or coffee. Some brands taste a bit like weak custard.
ghostlymoron
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Not having a fridge, I have found that even UHT goes off over night once opened. I use ASDA powdered in drinks and don't eat cereals for breakfast. Bacon and eggs keep almost indefinately.
john_morris_uk
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I agree.
But there are also some people who seem to think that margarine is acceptable on toast! Eugh!!!
If we are offshore for any length of time our normal preference is full skimmed UHT as it just tastes like watery milk. The reduced fat means that the lactose content formed by the sterilization is low. We often keep a few cartons on board 'just in case', in the same way that we keep some bread mix packs on board in a tupperware box.
ms.lau
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another vote for soya products (though you need to heat it if you want it in coffee - it curdles otherwise).
my best soya secret is porridge made with vanilla soya milk. mmmmmmmmmm........
my best soya secret is porridge made with vanilla soya milk. mmmmmmmmmm........
Mudisox
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I find Dulux Brilliant white emulsion tastes the same, but tends to thicken after a while.
ms.lau
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have to say i've never been tempted to eat paint. each to their own, though.
KAL
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Mmmmmm! Titanium dioxide - shaken not stirred.....
Victoria Sponge
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srp
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It's all very well for you blokes with fridges, but for us with real boats rather than floating luxury apartments milk is a bit of a problem.
A few possible strategies:
1. I use a wine cooler standing in the little galley sink, which just holds a 1 pint plastic milk bottle. Covered with a wet rag it keeps reasonably cool for up to 24 hours in the summer.
2. Freeze a couple of bottles of milk at home beforehand. They will take 12 - 24 hours to slowly thaw (during which time you can periodically decant enough for cups of tea). May even last longer with a properly insulated cold box (which menas you have to make one yourself from ply and styrofoam or Kingspan).
3. For longer periods, buy UHT milk in individual sachets from the supermarket. I agree with all the comments about the taste (though some makes are much better than others), but in extremis it's better than black tea.
A few possible strategies:
1. I use a wine cooler standing in the little galley sink, which just holds a 1 pint plastic milk bottle. Covered with a wet rag it keeps reasonably cool for up to 24 hours in the summer.
2. Freeze a couple of bottles of milk at home beforehand. They will take 12 - 24 hours to slowly thaw (during which time you can periodically decant enough for cups of tea). May even last longer with a properly insulated cold box (which menas you have to make one yourself from ply and styrofoam or Kingspan).
3. For longer periods, buy UHT milk in individual sachets from the supermarket. I agree with all the comments about the taste (though some makes are much better than others), but in extremis it's better than black tea.
Wunja
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That's a whole new marketing opportunity!
Ross D
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I also don't have a fridge and I recommend buying smaller sizes of milk bottle than normal. Once they are opened they go off quickly so better to have more smaller bottles, we also freeze our milk before we set off, it also helps keep the cool box cool and can stay frozen for several days and fresh unopened for longer.
mireland
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Moo +1 !!!
pheran
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But not half as good as a decent slug of Baileys!
G12
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Cravendale lasts 2 weeks or more in my fridge when opened. You do need to keep it in the fridge though!
DownWest
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Re: the milk in France. I was quite surprised that 'fresh' has a date stamped shelf life of a couple of weeks, if cool. It is sealed by a foil layer under the screw cap and seems to last several days after open ( a week when I did a boat rally and kept it a 12v cool box). The red top full cream makes good tea, otherwise I would emigrate.
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