Whole milk or skim milk?

[Weirddave]

Which do you prefer? I like the real stuff. Skim milk tastes watered down to me.

[ultress]

I agree. I love whole milk, but too much fat so I stick with skim milk and suffer.

[Markxxx]

Whole Milk!!! But I drink Skim. Whole is too fatty.

[pepperlandgirl]

You haven't lived until you have had milk right from the cow. Ok, not RIGHT from the cow. My friend owned a dairy farm, and I loved going to her house. She'd give me a big glass of milk fresh from the night before, it was like drinking creme. That's one of my happiest memories. :)

[Flutterby]

I prefer skim milk. I used to drink 2% all the time but then I switched to skim and haven't looked back. I don't mind drinking 2% sometimes but Homo milk tastes real weird to me.

[Weirddave]

Homo milk tastes real weird to me.

Silly! THAT stuff is for Esprix, Otto, NTG, Sqrl and the like. I saw an add in the paper that seemed targeted at lesbians. It said "Milk $1.99 gal homo". Seemed to be an exclusive market.

[Scotticher]

I love whole milk, but until recently I hadn't tasted it in years. Once you get used to skim (for health reasons) it is better not to taste the real stuff, makes it hard to go back.

A few weeks ago I went to a new latte place, and ordered my usual latte with skim milk. I'm driving away, thinking "boy, they really do a good job on these! I'm going to have to come here all the time!" Took me awhile to realize that they had made it with whole milk instead of skim. It took me a few weeks to get used to skim again.

Scotti

[TwiLiTe]

Definatly skim. Whole tastes so fatty and like it has been sitting out for a long time. Plus it's a lot better for you.

[vanilla]

I like soy milk.
I don't believe, and some May disagree with me; that cows milk is for calves.

[David B]

If it weren't for the fat, I'd be drinking whole milk all the time. I did in college. I switched to 2% after that. Now I'm down to 1%. I can't drink skim (chalkwater). I can drink the Skim "plus" stuff (or whatever they call it), but can't find it around here.

[divemaster]

I don't buy milk often. If I do, then I feel compelled to buy cereal. That is bad news; I'll go through a box a day, mostly late at night.

When I do drink it, I prefer 1%. Can handle 1/2% okay, but not out-and-out skim. I also tend to drink it over ice.

[Edwardina]

I wish I could hang with soy milk, but I just can't. C'est la vie.

Definitely skim. I grew up on it and whole tastes weird to me.

[TVeblen]

Neither: I use 2% for general purposes. (Note: I never drink a glass of milk unless it's accompanied by a bowl of chocolate chip cookie dough.) It's fine for cereal, most cooking, etc.

It's fine for cereal and most cooking. I love whole milk, but save it for when the taste makes a difference. I'd rather use 2% for stuff I'm not tasting a whole lot anyway and then luxuriate in heavy cream, etc. where it counts.

Since I'm not a milk drinker, by the glass, maybe makes a difference. But to me skim milk is just nasty, chalky water. It's just too attenuated and removed from its true form to be useful.

Veb

[evilbeth]

I drink the flavor-enhanced 1% milk. It tastes like whole milk but is still 1%. This is the milk David B. was referring to.

[Zion]

Skim milk is for the birds. Then again, at the rate I drink milk(about 2 gallons a week), I may end up downgrading to 1%, for health reasons. Currently, 2% is my favorite choice. Whole milk tastes GREAT, but it's too unhealthy.

[vanilla]

Can't resist: To live is Christ, to drink 2% is to gain.

[Ukulele Ike]

I drink heavy cream. Having to buy it in those little half-pints is sooooo annoying, though.

Okay. Sorry. I don't drink milk often enough that I worry about the amounts of fat in it, so I stick with whole. I have fond memories of the creaminess of the milk in France...I also drink more milk when I'm in the midwest. The stuff on the grocery shelves in Chicago (from Wisconsin, I assume) has a better flavor than the milk from the Jersey/Long Island dairies that goes into NYC.

For the past few years I've been buying organic milk...it has a creaminess approaching the Chicago standard, if not quite up to Paris. A good mouth-feel, with a clean finish.

[funneefarmer]

Whole.
None of that pasteurized, homogenized, vitamin added stuff either.

[Mr. Cynical]

Gimme my lactaid milk any day. Damn lactose tolerants!

[jayron 32]

2% all the way

[soulsling]

Soy chocolate milk. yummy! :)

otherwise, if it's to be the real deal, whole whole whole.
can't stand watered down milk.

but ever try soy milk with Capn'Crunch :D deeeeeeeeelicious!

[vanilla]

soy milk with blue corn flakes!

[MysterEcks]

Whole milk. If I can't have the real stuff, I won't bother.

[Shirley Ujest]

Whole milk for the kids.

nonfat dry milk for baking and cereal...(shhh, hubby doesn't know)

Soy for me.

[sewalk]

I grew up on whole milk but have easily adjusted to 2%. I can't drink skim milk (at least not without 1/4 cup of Hershey's syrup to give some consistency) and 1% doesn't really seem much better. I tried 1% for a while but finally went back to 2 not only for the taste, but also for the shelf life. I don't know why, but the more fat content, the longer I have before my milk goes sour. My rate of consumption seems well suited to 1 gallon of 2% per week. The 1-2 fewer days of longevity of 1% milk means I often have to throw out the last pint or more. This always seems to happen Saturday mornings when my son is visiting and we want to sit down to cartoons (all modern 'toons suck, but I humor him) and some cereal: Cheerios for him and Apple Jacks or Fruit Loops for me.

[Commander Fortune]

Whole milk, but I only drink it on rare occasions.

Heavy cream in my coffee.

Latte made with half and half can fill you up like it was a big breakfast.

[Floompy]

I can drink the Skim "plus" stuff (or whatever they call it), but can't find it around here.



The Skim "Plus" and the 1% "Plus" are actually really good. How do they do that? Make skim milk taste good? And yes, if it wasn't for the fat content, I would certainly stick to whole milk, particularly in coffee drinks.

[Annie-Xmas]

Soy milk. I drink a pint at night to relieve the
night sweats of menopause.

[Floompy]

Let me amend my last post: I love soy milk! The only thing, is that I think it tastes disgusting in coffee. I would otherwise prefer it, especially on cereal. (Can you tell that my coffee is important to me?)

[funneefarmer]

The Skim "Plus" and the 1% "Plus" are actually really good. How do they do that? Make skim milk taste good? And yes, if it wasn't for the fat content, I would certainly stick to whole milk, particularly in coffee drinks.


Try SDMB - Why is some Skim Milk thicker ? (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25030)

[Floompy]

Thanks funneefarmer, I'll check it out! - KJ

[Esprix]

weirddave wrote:

Homo milk tastes real weird to me.

Silly! THAT stuff is for Esprix, Otto, NTG, Sqrl and the like. I saw an add in the paper that seemed targeted at lesbians. It said "Milk $1.99 gal homo". Seemed to be an exclusive market.

Why do you think I want to move to Canada? They have Homo milk and Gay butter! :D

Well, my whole life has been 100% whole milk - none of that white water skim or 1% or 2% or any of that crap.

Alas, my stomach has started to rebel (damn 30's), so I have started drinking Lactaid milk (the red carton, which says fat-free, and it tastes that way, but I can't figure out if it's the *most* or *least* creamy of the line), but only with my morning tea - I can still stomach whole milk in small quantities (and I do drink it by the glassful, especially with NesQuik or Ovaltine), but I especially need to take a Lactaid tablet now when I eat ice cream (notably Breyer's or Hagen-Dazs chocolate, or Ben & Jerry's Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch).

I hate getting old. :mad:

Esprix

[Gazelle]

Me skim.
El Hubbo 2% but only 'cause I forced him.

[sailor]

I drink skim and like it. I just do not understand why Americans have let their taste evolve to where everything has to have loads of fat or they don't like it. You can educate your taste and you will not miss the stuff.

Just a few days ago I was with some friends and we went into an ice cream place and my friend's wife (who could lose some weight) kept insisting I have some. She could not understand that it really does not appeal to me and kept insisting I could have it because I am not fat.

I read a few days ago the per capita consumption of cheese in the US has quadrupled in the last 30 years!! I wonder what the figures are for ice-cream and other high fat foods.

Believe me, you can eat a low fat diet and not miss the fat. I do.

[Drain Bead]

I absolutely cannot drink anything other than skim milk. Anything with fat, even 1%, tastes like I'm drinking half and half. Someone else said that whole milk tastes like it's been sitting out for a while, and I totally agree. It also never seems to get as cold and thirst-quenching as skim milk. Whole milk is like drinking a milkshake, without any of the fun.

[Arnold Winkelried]

I never drink the stuff anymore, but if I did drink it I would use whole milk.

Why bother with skim milk? Might as well drink water.

But in my house there usually is no milk in the refrigerator. I eat my cereal with yogurt, coffee is black and hot chocolate made with water.

[Angkins]

Skim milk always seems to get SO cold and doesn't leave that yucky thick saliva feeling in my mouth.

[Chronos]

Whole is the best (I agree with pepperlandgirl 100%... I've had it still warm from the morning milking, and it was amazing-- This from a dairy with an average of 7%, mind you), but I usually drink reduced-- I can't tell the difference between 1% and 2%, so I buy whichever is cheaper. Skim I can't stand, except maybe on cereal if I'm desparate, or with a LOT of chocolate syrup. Enriched skim isn't too bad, though.

[kasuo]

i usually drink the 2% lowfat milk. i cant drink whole milk anymore cuz it tastes like butter to me. then again, maybe i should check the expiration date more often..