October 17, 2008
-{7:35 am}-
Filed by trumwill from Kitchen

Milk Jugs

Anyone here notice a difference in how long plastic milk gallon jugs keep milk fresh versus cardboard half-gallon cartons? I just bought the latter and I swear it’s been fresh for two weeks now. Or at least it neither smells nor tastes funny. Usually it seems that it starts to go bad after maybe a week after you open it, regardless of the expiration date. Anyone else noticed anything like this?

3 Comments »

  1. Milk does not do well when exposed to sunlight or fluorescent lighting - it causes oxidation and vitamin A degradation. Plastic containers (or worse, alas, the glass jugs Promised Land milk ships in) don’t protect the milk the way the cardboard containers do.

    See also:
    Article on the matter.

    Comment by Webmaster — October 17, 2008 @ 10:12 am

  2. Based on the last e-mail trumwill sent to me I thought this post was going to be about something different.

    Comment by Bob V — October 17, 2008 @ 8:19 pm

  3. That’s an absolutely fantastic link, Web. Thanks a lot!

    Sorry to disappoint, Bob!

    Comment by trumwill — October 19, 2008 @ 11:10 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

NOTE Comments are encouraged if you have something to contribute. However, Hit Coffee is not a site for contentious or spiteful social commentary. For a more detailed explanation, feel free to read the Comments Policy. Comments that contain more than two links are sent to moderation and will be passed through as soon as I can. Blockquotes are discouraged for technical reasons (use italics). As a courtesy to commenters, I will clean up comments by deleting duplicates and HREFing links that are hard-coded.