New York restaurant serves breastmilk cheese (!!!)

[Nelvana]

Hi all,

Just found this -- a New York chef is serving cheese made of his wife's breastmilk:

story here

Makes me think 'eeeeew' but also 'what a waste of breastmilk' ? what do you think??

'bitty...'

freak.

Well the headline is misleading. The chap has made some cheese from his wife's leftover frozen breast milk, he also happens to run a restaurant.

I don't think it's particularly "ewwww" but would imagine the cheese would be very sweet, and I don't like cheese to be sweet, so won't be trying this at home

Whatever floats your boat. As long as people are aware of what they are eating I can't see the problem.

ImSoNotTelling -- haha yes won't be trying that out either (though DS might appreciate his milk in a different format?? hehe)

I know you need to get screened somehow to donate breastmilk, they could have tried though, this is so sensationalist!

yoghurt would be better than cheese IMO

I wonder if this would be considered ethically sound by people who were vegans because they didn't approve of dairying. I mean, presumably the woman was able to give full consent and no suffering was involved.

In a place like NY he could be onto something...

But the article says he has not plans to sell it, yet the headline screams, 'New York Restaurant Serves Breastmilk Cheese...' which it doesn't

Misleading?

Apparently there is money to be had in breastmilk for medical purposes, apparently some cancer suffers drink breastmilk because it's claimed that the immune system is improved by it and there is a small chance it may help fight cancer cells.

Is breastmilk going to become the new actimel?

Will there be little milking stations for women who are paid to 'deposit' like sperm banks?

Why not, more normal to me than using another mammals milk.

If it can help fight cancer why not?

atlantis "Will there be little milking stations for women who are paid to 'deposit' like sperm banks?"

Sounds good, I am currently lactating and it is all going to waste because baby isn't here yet. As long as they were paying I would happily get milked.

You cannot make cheese from human breastmilk, the fat content isn't high enough.

pregno - it depends what you mean by "cheese". You can't make cheddar, no, but some types of cheese can be made from skimmed milk even.

Cottage cheese for example.

Eww lol

MAybe I should look into it again. I wanted to make cheese that why I did all the research last year and everywhere said it wasn't possible as the fat content is substancially lower in human milk.

I bet it can make cottage cheese though!, babies make that themselves by half digesting and throwing up, it looks just like it, ewwww

Bolleaux.

You can't make cheese from human breastmilk.
Tis a publicity stunt.

Are you sure about that -- why wouldn't you be able to?

Definitely a publicity stunt!

Oh, something to do with protien or summut.