Keeping fresh milk without a fridge

There used to be a powdered milk called 5-pints which wasn't bad. I don't know if it's still around. Personally, I would as soon do without cereal and have croissants or toast instead if I couldn't get fresh milk. I would assume that Cravendale, which is our preferred milk at home, deteriorates at much the same rate as any other once opened but I haven't tested it on the boat. In any case, it would make sense to buy it in the smallest bottles if not refrigerated. We keep Coffee-Mate on the boat for milking drinks. I find it inoffensive if not actually delicious, but better in coffee than tea.
 
Chiara’s slave said:
Tempting fate here? Soy and oat milk can come in 250ml lots as well, keeps well too. We have that on cereal, but never in tea?
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You can make oat milk or almond milk yourself - then its fresh. I find it difficult to see why people dislike oat milk - which is a bit like liquid porridge (but then many people don't like porridge). We make almond milk (despite its poor environmental rating). At the end of a simple process you have lump of granular ground almonds - that we add to muesli (based on oats :) ).

Never saw the point of milk in coffee - destroys the flavour - and worse adding it to tea. People will tell me next they add sugar to tea and coffee - Yuk!!

Its a good thing we are not all the same - each to their own. :)

Jonathan
 
For most of my time in the Royal Navy the only milk available on board was Carnation condensed unsweetened tinned milk. You soon got used to the taste of it and when you came ashore and had tea (few drank coffee in those days) it seemed weak compared with tea made with 'Connie' milk.

I am reading "The Sea Was Our Village" by Miles Smeeton and he describes enjoying breakfast porridge made by his wife consisting of oats, brown sugar and Carnation milk.

Connie milk was also useful as an adhesive. If you wanted to put up a notice a dab of it in each corner did the trick.
 
Neeves said:
You can make oat milk or almond milk yourself - then its fresh. I find it difficult to see why people dislike oat milk - which is a bit like liquid porridge (but then many people don't like porridge). We make almond milk (despite its poor environmental rating). At the end of a simple process you have lump of granular ground almonds - that we add to muesli (based on oats :) ).

Never saw the point of milk in coffee - destroys the flavour - and worse adding it to tea. People will tell me next they add sugar to tea and coffee - Yuk!!

Its a good thing we are not all the same - each to their own. :)

Jonathan
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Totally agree. Big fan of oat milk generally and works well on boat because of long shelf life.
 
We keep semi skimmed UHT in the locker under the galley sink .If you get the cartons with a screw top they stay fresh after being opened for several days in summer .
 
Praxinoscope said:
If you can get a wholesalers card such as ‘Bookers’ they stock the small UHT milks and creams that are used in hotels etc, unfortunately I don’t have access to one now. They were ideal on the boat.
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You beat me to it!
On holiday in Spain or Portugal I always find their coffee delicious and the coffee that we make at home bears no comparison. I have come to the conclusion that it might have something to do with the fact that we use fresh milk, while they use UHT.
 
The above all sounds rather unpleasant.

Some might remember the much loved OSOKOOL. It kept things cool(ish) without power.

Essentially it was a lump of plaster/concrete type material with a dished top in which water evaporated creating a cooling effect.

Ours went overboard somewhere off the Casquets. Its loss was not mourned. The milk then went off.
 
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