To say milk is going sour more quickly now?

ok this made me grin, but in reality there’s lots of other options, like milk hanging round longer at the farm/bottling plant/warehouse before being delivered, or the refrigeration at any of those places being sub par

Rings vets “cows nipples
just giving that goes off in 24hours Milk man”

😂😂

milk and more not a local dairy farm supplying large areas… not their fault. 🙃

You be shocked how milk is kept at farms. My parents used to order straight from the farm but after a visit there and seeing how it stored...in hot sun they realized why it went off so quick so now order from a supermarket...sadly it's fresher ..awful that's the case

Milk goes off faster - Option 1 the cows are broken. Option 2 the fridge is broken.
Yup let’s go with option 1.

Whereas my Sainsburys has always been appalling for skimmed milk. And it has got even worse lately. Literally going off within 2 days of buying it (which was 4 days before the best before date!).

I try to buy milk from other supermarkets as much as possible (but Sainsburys is MUCH closer) and that milk is fine so it definitely isn't my fridge.

Average ambient temperatures are rising now due to climate change. This was the hottest spring on record. Refrigerators will need to work harder to maintain the same internal temperature and any time the milk spends outside the fridge will be more effective in spoiling product than before.
We will start noticing more and more things like this now.

You're missing a response option, I do notice and my milk seems to last longer these days. We went on holiday and I was amazed the half opened milk was still fine when we got back after 10 days. I have switched to organic, supermarket milk though and it was at the bottom of the fridge in the coldest part so that probably helps. Maybe your fridge is on the way out?

You need Cravendale filtered from the supermarket. I live alone and 2 litres lasts well over a week.

I have 2 pints every other day from the milkman and I have filtered milk the rest of the time , the milk from the milkman goes off quickly , so I always use it before the filtered milk .

I've noticed mine goes off more quickly if I forget to put the wee insulated bag out for my milkman. The sun shines on my doorstep in the morning so the increased temperature and sun really make a difference.

Have you checked your fridge is working properly/ cold enough? I buy supermarket milk and it generally lasts till the useby date

How long is it usually in the doorstep before you take it in and is the seal intact?
When I was a kid, birds often pecked through the foil tops of the bottles, which would make it sour more quickly.

Yes - we stopped using them in the end for this reason. I dont think their distribution is workjng very well sadly

I only use milk for one coffee a day, and since I started buying Cravendale I find a two pint bottle stays fresh for the five days or so I take to get through it. Ordinary semi-skimmed used to go off before I could use it, even a pint at a time. That’s why I switched, I’d rather pay a bit more but not waste it.

I buy Sainsbury's skimmed and it's absolutely fine.

I made the mistake of ordering ordinary milk instead of Cravendale last time I did my online order, it didn't even last as long as the use by date. I ended up throwing away nearly half of what I ordered.

We buy Yeo Valley from Ocado and it’s definitely going off much quicker than say a year or two ago. Not sure if this is the product itself or Ocado supply chain issues, but veg/salad also seems to go off quicker so I suspect supply chain issues.

I’ve taken to freezing ours as soon as it arrives and defrosting as needed (it’s in card tetrapaks). But you can’t do that with glass bottles.

We had this problem a while ago and it was the temperature of the fridge.

We still buy the same milk now (blue from Tesco) and it's fine.

Our milk man milk is still good over a week later in the fridge. Think I need to cut down on our order. Not milk and more though.

https://www.milkandmore.co.uk/Dairy/Fresh-Milk-Delivery/Milk-%26-More-Milk-Minder/p/73911
ours is sold by the same company that deliver the milk

We use milk & more and we get deliveries 3 times a week so it never really has to last a whole week, so I’m not sure. It’s only noticeably gone a bit off if it was left out for too long before we brought it in, in full sun (ie once or twice the milkman didn’t put the bottles in our little insulated container, and they sat there in the morning sun for a few hours).

If you’re having to make it last a week, maybe try more frequent smaller deliveries in the summer when it’s warmer outside? Or do you have a cool box you can leave out for them?

Could someone link to the type of insulated box they use please? Is the milkman happy to put into it?

I do know that a few years ago in an area I used to live the local small Spar supermarket had a reputation for the milk going off very soon. The customers stopped buying their milk there and went across the road to the corner shop to buy their milk there instead. There was a lot of conversation about the issue locally and people concluded it was the temperature the milk suppliers for the small supermarket kept the milk at that was the problem.
Apart from that historical localised issue I've not had a problem and in fact generally the supermarket milk I buy exceeds it's best by date.

We use Cravendale mainly or occasionally Yeo Valley, both usually keep beyond the use by date. But we are very careful to put it straight back in the fridge and not leave the fridge door ajar when getting stuff in and out.
Local milk does often go off though, so we no longer buy it.

My milk (not Milk and more) was delivered at about 11 last night! Luckily we noticed and brought it in but otherwise it would have been sitting outside at about 10 degrees or more overnight. So I’m sure it would have gone off much quicker if it hadn’t been drunk in about 5 minutes!