How did people store their milk before refridgerators?

Interesting.

Maybe this is why the organic milk I purchased yesterday has an expiration date of October 15th.

All of the organics that I buy have expiration dates weeks ahead or longer.

I defrosted a large piece of beef two weeks ago, then did not cook it. It stayed in the fridge for 7 or 8 days.

When I finally had the opportunity to spend a good amount of time cooking, I opened that package half expecting it to be rancid...it was perfect!

Now I have a whole chicken in the fridge waiting for me to roast. That one expires on September 22nd, although I will be cooking it tonight or tomorrow.

Organics are high quality foods that last far longer than mainstream offerings.

Last Edited by esotericMorgan on 09/03/2013 10:47 AM

How is Ghee made?

You are mistaken. Many places harvested fresh water lake ice in the winter and stored it in well-packed sawdust to keep through the summer... the places where this ice was stored was called an ICE HOUSE.

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oh my god Google is such a f****** crazy idea I never even begin to think of trying that are you f****** retarded

Very interesting. I recently had a problem with a chicken going bad before I could roast it. Please let me know how your organic chicken fares. I am very very interested to know. One of my biggest pet peeves is wasting food.

duh of course they drank it "Raw" which is really a dumb word when you think of it. They drank it in its natural state.

That should be refrigerators, not refridgerators. Go back to school.

I tried some american milk a few weeks ago... It was horrible. I tasted like my 3rd year organic chem lab with a vague hint of watered down milk.

Our milk here is better, but probably not by much lol. I know a farmer who can get me raw "for my pets" but hes quite far away.

i remember drinking milk fresh from the cow when i was at my gran mothers house as a child.. all i remember is when the milk would come freshly milked she would then boil it and then it was good to drink.. and the most yummy tasting milk ever might i add..

you don't have to waste it,not if your a posh farmer! I worked on farm at East Lothian,come pheasant hunting season,they'd let them hang for ages,till green with maggots on,to enhance flavour. they also did this to other meats/produce.

I wasn't wrong, but perhaps I didn't phrase the statement well enough.

I first said "Ice boxes were no good for the days before electricity".

That is true for the vast majority of people across the world over the past 2000 years.

If you happen to be in the minority, or an eskimo, and live near where ice is produced naturally in frozen bodies of water, then sure, you could harness ice blocks.

But ice boxes as a viable means of keeping things cool for the vast majority of the world did not come into their own until electricity enabled the wholesale production of ice blocks in rudimentary induction factories in places (i.e. the vast majority of the world) where ice from frozen lakes was not available.

It was delivered to the house daily and so was a big chunk of ice.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the non electric fridge. Simple method online at least is take a Terra cotta pot pour sand in bottom so a smaller pot will rest inside level with thebigger one at the tops. Then pour sand around them to create a barrier.. Then pour water to saturate the sand... Place items to cool in the small pot and cover the entire thing with a damp cloth.

They made the ice deep in the earth in the winter and cut cubes and ponied them around to the homes.

BUT HOW DID THE ICE DELIVERY GUY GET HIS ICE?!?!?!


SECRET BLACK OPS ICE TECH???


MAKES YOU WONDER HUH!?

Dry aging beef involves storing in refrigerator for weeks or even up to 70 days.

then how did people store their cows before refrigerators?

The answer is in the little house on the prairie series.

I've been cooking organics for a few years now; I have never had to throw away any organic meat. Before that, I would often find meat going bad even the day after purchasing it.

Once I learned about the 'quality' issues of regular meat [i.e.: pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, fungicides ...etc.] I switched to organics.

It had gotten to the point where I hated the taste and texture of chicken, so I would not eat it, even when cooking it for my family. When I was preparing it, I could see 'changes' in the raw meat...blood spots, gummy 'fells' on surfaces, besides bone cracks on legs, which I later found out was due to the way chicken it processed these days.

So, I stopped buying it altogether.

Then I saw organics and free-range chickens being offered, so I tried them. YAY! i CAN EAT CHICKEN AGAIN!

Now that organics are widely available in my area, I won't even buy free-range anymore!

The quality of organics is amazing! The taste and texture are wonderful.

The best plus is that you can make soup with the leftovers, simmering the bones and scrap parts for hours without fear of chemicals and disease leeching from them. This is something I stopped doing until finding organic choices.

Soooooooo, I am 100% certain you will not be disappointed.

While it is true that organics are pricey, you will not mind eating less...which is good for us anyway.

In the past ten years I have only been to the doctor once for a medical problem, and that was to get a prescription for an asthma inhaler. My asthma has almost cleared since cleaning up my diet, although I still have problems with smells from car exhausts, fuel and the like. Oh, and dust.

I am in better health now than ten years ago. While your food bill may be higher, your waistline will be smaller.

One more thing about organic milk: you can taste the milk sugars in it. It has gotten to the point where even celery (organic) tastes sweet to me. I no longer buy sugar.

This is how I stopped using sugar in my coffee, because the milk was sweet enough.

If I find I am in the mood for some extra sweetness in my tea or coffee, I now use honey, maple syrup or agave...ll organic.

thanks everybody for clueing me in. when I was out of the states the milk was much tastier too.

The Ice Man Cometh.....

In a wood box, partially submerged in a river to keep it cool.

and..

they put a silver coin in the milk bottle to keep it fresh longer!

did work, granny did so.

Our local farmer delivers our family raw milk to our home once a week. He collects used 1.5 liter water bottles and fills them up with the milk, throws them into the back of his hot van and delivers around the neighborhood. We freeze ours and remove/thaw as needed. We sometimes sit a bottle out for a few days and it turns into sour milk, which is tasty. We never boil our milk. Since changing to raw two years ago our kids allergies totally disappeared.

Don't belive this shit shit heads . I once had fresh cows milk it came with cow butt hairs. It made me throw up fresh from the cow my foot.

Cheese is how people preserved milk. The fermentation process cures the milk and an uncut cheese wheel can be stored in a cool dry place for ages.

mini fridge

they had those back then but not the big ones

seriously

Sorry, you are still wrong:

"An inscription from c. 1700 BC in northwest Iran records the construction of an icehouse, "which never before had any king built." In China, archaeologists have found remains of ice pits from the seventh century BC, and references suggest they were in use before 1100 BC. Alexander the Great around 300 BC stored snow in pits dug for that purpose. In Rome in the third century AD, snow was imported from the mountains, stored in straw-covered pits, and sold from snow shops. The ice formed in the bottom of the pits sold at a higher price than the snow on top."