Well, the title says it all! Actually the milk taste like sh*t is what it tastes like. what am I doing wrong?? I read that it is from not cooling it fast enough so I have been playing with my milk handling/cooling strategy the past week and thought I had it down pat but the gallon I just started drinking today is only 2 days old and the aftertaste is like a barn.
Okay, so I have a SS pail, then I put the filter on top of the pail and milk directly into the filter (that way I dont' get anything floating in my milk at all from the get-go) hair, dirt, stuff like that) anyways, so now I put a larger SS stock pot on the outside of the SS pail and that has Ice water and Ice in it so it's cooling the milk immediately as I'm milking into the bucket. Kinda like a double boiler concept. So it takes me like 20 minutes to milk. As soon as im done I go put the whole thing in the freezer. Both buckets, I just take the filter off the top and put a cover on the pot and throw it in the freezer. I come back 1/2 hr later and swish it around to kinda "stir" the milk without actually touching it or anything. Then about an hour after im done milking I stick a thermometer in it and it usually down to 40 degrees. I then put it in the fridge. (which is about 36-38 degrees)
why does my milk taste horrible???
Another question: If I try and make Kefir out of it it REALLY taste horrible. No matter if it didn't taste like crap before, about an hour after I add the kefir grains I open it and smell it and it smells HORRID!
Please tell me what im doing wrong. I can't stand to drink it right now and I don't want to waste the milk.....Thanks!
Okay, so I have a SS pail, then I put the filter on top of the pail and milk directly into the filter (that way I dont' get anything floating in my milk at all from the get-go) hair, dirt, stuff like that) anyways, so now I put a larger SS stock pot on the outside of the SS pail and that has Ice water and Ice in it so it's cooling the milk immediately as I'm milking into the bucket. Kinda like a double boiler concept. So it takes me like 20 minutes to milk. As soon as im done I go put the whole thing in the freezer. Both buckets, I just take the filter off the top and put a cover on the pot and throw it in the freezer. I come back 1/2 hr later and swish it around to kinda "stir" the milk without actually touching it or anything. Then about an hour after im done milking I stick a thermometer in it and it usually down to 40 degrees. I then put it in the fridge. (which is about 36-38 degrees)
why does my milk taste horrible???
Another question: If I try and make Kefir out of it it REALLY taste horrible. No matter if it didn't taste like crap before, about an hour after I add the kefir grains I open it and smell it and it smells HORRID!
Please tell me what im doing wrong. I can't stand to drink it right now and I don't want to waste the milk.....Thanks!