Is spoiled milk able to be drunk?

Answer 1

Drinking spoiled milk is a very unsafe practice since expired milk can be contaminated by dangerous bacteria which can make you very sick. Don't risk it, toss the milk if you have any doubt about whether it's still good and go get new milk.

When you add an acid (lime, vinegar, etc.) to normal milk, you get modern soured milk. Soured milk is NOT the same as spoiled milk. The question was regarding spoiled milk. Modern pasteurization kills the good bacteria that traditionally allowed normal milk to ferment into sour milk (called buttermilk because this was the run-off from the butter churning process.)

If you drink spoiled milk, you run the risk of food poisoning from unhealthy bacteria which may have found it. Fortunately, it is fairly easy to tell if milk has begun to spoil due to distinct changes in smell, texture, and flavor. Toss it.

Answer 2

If it is quite spoiled, yes, it can be dangerous. But slightly spoiled milk can also be used as an ingredient in cooking, provided that it's been pasteurized.

If its only problem is a sour smell and slight thickening, it can be used in sauces and batters. But raw milk -- that is, unpasteurized milk -- should never be used once it's started to go bad.

If the milk has changed color or developed chunks, it's too far gone to be used for anything.

Answer 3

I dont think its really bad. Although skimmed milk contains casein. Casein is a protein that is found in milk and used independently in many foods as a binding agent. It may stimulate allergic reactions in people; some experts on autism recommend that people suffering from autism avoid casein in their diets. While in most people, casein is easily broken down by the digestive system into peptides known as casomorphins and then further processed into basic amino acids, some evidence suggests that in autistics, this process does not occur fully.

Answer 4

Pasteurisation raises its ugly head again. Every three or four years the media in the USA get the chance to Trumpet to the world that somebody has become ill from drinking un-pasteurised raw milk. Each year over a thousand people get sick from drinking pasteurised milk - thats about three a day - and anything that happens so often is too boring to hit the news. Research before pasteurisation showed that more people got Tuberculosis from drinking pasteurised milk than raw milk, because pasteurisation killed the probiotics that would kill the TB bugs, but not the TB bugs. The profit lies in pasteurisation, and the farmers don't have to spend money keeping dairies spotlessly clean, However, if you mean baking, go with the flavour that you like. The heat kills all the microbes. If you mean boiling, theoretically you need to pressure cook for half an hour to kill oll the theoretically present spores, but I just pour my spoiled milk into my stew without any problems.

Answer 5

Bacteria can eat anything - even oil slicks. But they can't eat UHT milk. That means that your digestion can't handle it either. But there might be some bacteria that manage to make UHT milk go sour. I wouldn't touch that with a barge pole. However, raw milk goes sour naturally, and makes sour milk, sour cream, yoghurt, or kefir. I drink naturally soured milk every few days when I haven't managed to drink four litres over two days. I drank one litre seven hours ago

Answer 6

Yes! but only a few hours after it has spoiled otherwise you would get sick

Answer 7

You could. It depends what microbes were growing in the milk.

Answer 8

If you drink spoiled milk, it can make you very sick.

Answer 9

No spoiled milk should taste awful no matter what.

Answer 10

It does not taste good with anything.