Milk going off.

I also buy Cravendale and haven't had any of it go off yet before I've managed to get through it all. I think it tastes quite nice too.

We don't use milk, so I only buy it if needed for some cooking and when we have visitors. One DDiL buys Cravendale, which I think lasts longer?

I wonder why ours doesn't? Perhaps because of the Duchy Organics thing, they do seem to stock certain ranges of "local" products.

Our waitrose stocks cravendale. It really does keep better and seems (to me) to have a cleaner taste. I can taste milk before it goes off to tell it'll be off in a couple of hours

I have a doorstep milkman and I have not had a problem unless we ourselves forget to get in in early enough.
I wonder what might have happened in the storage of this milk before it reaches our doorsteps or our supermarket shelves.

I find that Asda`s milk keeps to even beyond the best by date, I start sniffing it on the final date on the bottle, but we usually get a couple more days out of it. My son was disgusted, he says we should chuck any milk left by the best by date.

I buy 2x4-pints of semi-skimmed from Tesco each week and it never goes off and lasts at least the full week between purchases and sometimes a little longer. On occasion I buy 3x4-pints as DH now and then gets keen on having a pint of cold milk when he's been biking, if it's hot and sunny. Apparently it's a good recovery drink. I also need more if we have visitors but it always stays drinkable.

I looked for Cravendale in Waitrose but they don't seem to stock it, just their own essential and some Duchy original organic.

You'll just have to try it, phoenix - no point our trying to tell you what something might taste like!

But what would it be like on cereal?

Jess fridge temp is fine, at least Mr P's beer is always well chilled and so is the odd bottle of wine.

Crikey I thought our milk consumption was average. I buy a 6 pinter twice a week and sometimes an extra 4pinter in between. There are 3 adults in the house two of whom quiet often have cereal twice a day.

phoenix If you don't drink that much anyway, the long life stuff really doesn't taste any different, so why not give it a try?

Milk is a perfect breeding ground for bacteria. Pasteurisation reduces bacterial count but does not sterilise.
Fridge temperature might be an issue?
I have found that organic milk from milk man used to go off a bit soon in the summer. Wish there was a milkman here.

The going off is due to the current muggy weather conditions isn't it? I buy 1 litre Flora Proactiv skimmed milk, which has a shelf life of about a month, during which time I don't always use it all. I might make the odd sauce and occasionally add to cereal, but not being a tea of coffee drinker, that is it.

About every 10 days or so.

I only buy long life milk now as it takes us ages to get through it- the bread keeps going off though.

Interesting about the microbial process in semi skimmed grannyactivist. We must have the record for milk consumption I fear; at least 18 pints a week for the two of us. That is only one bowl of cereal a day, but a serious tea habit belonging to Mr Purple. Haven't noticed it going off, probably because it gets drunk too quickly

Sainsburys is way too far for using regularly.

I buy 4 pint semi skimmed from Sainsburys roughly every 10 days (I am on my own) and, so far, it has never gone off.

I did buy Cravendale once and thought it had an odd taste - my taste buds are obviously not as sophisticated as Galen's

How many times a week do you buy it Galen?

Mine doesn't go off! I buy cravendale semi skimmed and I find it lives up to its claims

But ga that's the whole point! It shouldn't go off because it's still well within it's date!

There is only me in the house Mon to Fri, I have 1 cup of tea a day, about 3 coffees and the very occasional bowl of cereal. Maurice used to have a saucerful in the morning, but he is no longer with us, Digby doesn't like it and I don't want to get young Sprout into bad habits!

I always keep long life semi skimmed milk in small cartons, for visitors, and it lasts for ages after it's been opened (at least 3 weeks).

I'm reeling with shock that anyone can buy a pint of milk and it lasts long enough to go off!
I buy a six pint of semi and four pints each of whole and skimmed milk twice a week. The children and one of my lodgers have whole milk, husband and I drink skimmed and the other people in the house and most visitors have semi. I always keep a six pack of UHT milk in too because there are times when I'm running low on milk and it's my standby and it's also brilliant for making yoghurt.
Anyway I digress, here's what t'internet has to say about it:
Few people drink full-cream milk these days – they prefer the lower fat options of skimmed or semi-skimmed milk. Interestingly, these spoil quicker than whole milk because there are extra stages in the manufacturing process where the fat is taken out, and in the case of semi-skimmed, some put back again, before the product is packaged. This provides more opportunities for microbial contamination.

Me too merlot even though I have a very small amount in tea, full fat is still yuk!

Aka it's not quite that drastic, but as I'm on my own during the week, that reduces consumption, but then again I have been known to fancy a bowl of honey & nut cornflakes in the evening!