Would it be possible to make cheese derived from a woman’s breastmilk? And if it were possible, and she happened to be drinking a lot of coffee at the time, would the cheese kind of have a coffee taste to it?
Dude, time to go to bed…
It’s possible, but it’s not very efficient. Human milk contains about half as much proteins as cow milk, and the protein composition is different. In cow milk two thirds of the protein are casein, whereas in human milk it’s about one third.
Altogether that means that to make a specific amount of cheese, you’d need four times as much human milk as it would take if you were using cows milk.
Add this to the fact that humans don’t produce as much milk as cows. A Friesian cow can pump out around 30 litres per day all year round, whereas a woman would rarely go above 1litre/day, and only for a limited time.
So, if you want to set up a human cheese factory, youll clearly need an inordinate amount of lactating females.
Thus I think it’s clear that human cheese production will most likely never be able to compete economically with cows milk cheese.
I think I can speak for everyone in expressing appreciation for sharing one more thing in this crazy world that we can be thankful for.
Not for mass production, but undoubtedly there would be a niche market for it, if somebody wanted to start up a production.
And this is a bad concept for what reason? 
Aactually it is half past time!
Dan Savage did a column about this a couple years ago:
Sounds like it would be more efficient to give the coffee to the cows.
Does “Cheese Macchiato” really sound that good to you?
Pardon my lactating, but that ain’t necessarily so.
My son, at daycare, drank 20 oz a day. Which I (usually) pumped, daily. Add to that a morning, evening, and overnight feeding - I’m sure I got a least a litre a day from month 3 through month 12 (when I stopped pumping).
This was done with some small help of heavy though healthy eating (I am still above my pre-pregnancy weight because any thought of dieting makes my milk slow, though I am nearly happily weaned) and some addition of the herb fenugreek to my diet.
I have known several women who pumped and stored in excess of 30 litres of milk (in addition to full time breast feeding of their children) over the course of a year.
Additionally, there are some off-lable uses of several medications that will promote lactation - in men and women.
As to the OP, I haven’t tried making cheese, but I do know you can make breastmilk yoghurt, and right after I dumped my “too old to feed the kid” stash, someone sent me a recipe for bread that included the use of “soured milk” - too late for me to try, sadly.
Ahh, the power of cheese!
Got breast milk?
And there are cows who produce 84 litres per day (cite).
I might have been off with my one-litre estimation, but the whole point was that milk cows have been bread for millenia to increase milk production, whereas human female breasts have been selected for ‘other purposes’[sup]1[/sup].
And those three months still constitute a ‘limited time’ . Cow milk production is measured as a yearly average.
[sup]1[/sup]cf Darwin The descent of Man, Ch 8, “Principles of Sexual Selection”, or the lastest issue of Playboy
So, we find some volunteers …
No, I agree that cows are more cost efficient, and probably make a better cheese (though I could vary it by eating spicy food some months and sweeter ones others), it might be mostly the ‘unusual’ factor that ‘creates’ a market.
Hell, I’d put my kid through college selling breast milk cheese! And have a web cam for the fetishists who wanted to watch the pumping process ;). I’m gonna be RICH!
My point was that it might take less than you think to get a production market going. I was getting over a litre a day, and barely keeping up. I’m sure there are some who get much more. So I’ll run the web cams and the buisness office, and hire milching people for the production side.
Great. Another thing on the list of things to do before I die.
Yes. This is so that when their useful milk-producing life is over, they can be thinly sliced, toasted and spread with their own butter, thus completing the cycle of life.
So how much milk would it take to make a stick of butter?
Or a quart of ice cream?
What other dairy products might have marketing potential?
While I am certain this is possible, I think you’d need a whole whack of lactating women. My breast milk is pretty darned thin. Don’t judge by mine, though - it’s pretty much skim.