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A couple of days ago, I accidentally left the milk out of the refrigerator overnight. When I noticed it the next morning, I immediately thought, “Oh no! Now all of the milk is spoiled!” I immediately opened it and smelled it. To my surprise, it wasn’t quite spoiled yet, but it did smell rather “ripe.”
Then I thought of something that I’d thought of several months earlier, but never had an opportunity to apply. “If the milk is about to go bad, why not pour it into a pot, heat it to boiling, keep it covered as it cools, rinse out the original container, pour the ‘re-pasteurized’ milk back into the original container, and then put it back into the refrigerator.”
This is exactly what I did, and it worked! I was able to use the milk over the next couple of days, and it no longer smelled like it was about to go bad. I’ve heard that boiling milk changes the taste, but since I only used it in preparations such as hot cereal, I didn’t notice any difference whatsoever.
It might have been better to put the milk into a clean container rather than one that was just “rinsed out,” or even to simply leave it in the covered pot, and put it into the refrigerator, pot and all, but I didn’t think of this at the time. Next time something like this happens, I plan to do it that way.
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