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A colleague was telling me how when he went to the shops during snowmaggedon they only had Skimmed or Full Fat milk. As he only drinks semi-skimmed he purchased one of each and mixed them together.
I didn't know if I should mock him or admire him.
So, does red lid + blue lid = green lid?
Pretty much - fat per pint for full/semi/skimmed is something like 22g/9.9g/0.5g. So mixing a pint of full with a pint of skimmed gives a fat content just above semi-skimmed.
Yes, of course they do. One is 4% fat, one is less than 1%. Nothing more has been done than remove the fat from the skimmed milk, so by mixing two pints of skimmed and full fat you get close, but not exactly, semi-skimmed.
Well that messed with my IT & Art colour knowledge.
Gosh, people know the percentages and everyfing!
The local Tesco Express ran out a few days after the snow had gone, which was weird. I bought a skimmed and dumped it in with the remains of the semi I had in the fridge. Tasted ok. Didn't notice the difference in tea, so might do that more often.
Full fat is 4%, semi skimmed is 2% and skimmed is nearly 0%. So yes it'd work.
Gosh, people know the percentages and everyfing!
I got a degree in food science a long time ago and worked in a creamery for a while, analysing milk. Although looking at supermarket packaging it seems that my % info may be different from what they are quoting..
Good work. I'll not laugh at him then.
Its probably what they do in the dairy anyway, building a separator that produced semi-skimmed would be a challenge, so I'd bet they just produce skimmed milk and blend it back with the full fat milk.
I got a degree in food science a long time ago and worked in a creamery for a while, analysing milk. Although looking at supermarket packaging it seems that my % info may be different from what they are quoting..
Looks like you are an expert then, the very best, the cream of the crop.
dumped it in with the remains of the semi I had in the fridge.
Now there's an image.
<coughs> I may have edited mine so it says grams instead of percentages...which may have been a bit misleading originally...
coughs> I may have edited mine so it says grams instead of percentages…which may have been a bit misleading originally…
I had to go and check whether my figures were right because of your initial post. 22% fat - what are they feeding these cows on? 😂
Are there blue, red and green cows?
I'm shocked. I was under the impression that there were different breeds of cows for the different kinds of milk. Every day is a school day on here!
Gosh, people know the percentages and everyfing!
In the USA semi-skimmed is called 2% milk. From that I inferred other numbers 🙂
I'd heard skimmed milk isn't quite the same, often has has added titanium oxide to make it white, else it would look wierd and people wouldnt buy it.
Are there blue, red and green cows?
No, but there is blue, red and green grass.
Its probably what they do in the dairy anyway, building a separator that produced semi-skimmed would be a challenge, so I’d bet they just produce skimmed milk and blend it back with the full fat milk.
Nope, at least not when i worked in a dairy farm twenty years ago.
The milk from the cows all went in the tank and left to settle so the cream rose to the top. The semi-skimmed milk was then drained from the bottom, pasteurised and bottled. When enough semi-skimmed had been bottled, the paddles in the tank were switched on, mixing the cream back in, and that mixture was bottled as full-fat.
Skimmed milk needs more processing to get all the fat out (they might put it n a centrifuge, I'm not sure). We bought skimmed in as we didn't have the facilities to make it.
Are there blue, red and green cows?
And why is the Milka cow lilac?!
Nope, at least not when i worked in a dairy farm twenty years ago.
The milk from the cows all went in the tank and left to settle so the cream rose to the top. The semi-skimmed milk was then drained from the bottom, pasteurised and bottled. When enough semi-skimmed had been bottled, the paddles in the tank were switched on, mixing the cream back in, and that mixture was bottled as full-fat.
That's not how it's done in a proper creamery. You wouldn't be able to produce a consistent percentage fat milk your way.
In the USA semi-skimmed is called 2% milk.
Strangely I always thought US half-and-half was semi-skimmed but seems it's half cream half milk, I swear I see them with gallon cartons of the stuff in some films though?