Do any of you old timers still shake the carton of milk before pouring?

[demosincebirth]

I always have since I was a kid.

[hlthe2b]

1. Did you drink raw (nonpasteurized/nonhomogenized) milk? I can't imagine homogenized milk

separating so, no... But, raw milk, I could imagine it being necessary.

[FM123]

2. I literally shake everything before pouring!

(wait, I take that back - except soda pop)

[pangaia]

30. I usually wait to shake it off until I'm done.

[snowybirdie]

3. Absolutely

[Yonnie3]

4. Nope, us kids weren't supposed to shake the bottle.

I recall that we had milkman shaped bottles delivered. Not homogenized, so the cream was poured off for coffee and other uses.

I had forgotten about this.

[dameatball]

5. Not only that but I scrape the wax off the carton and use it on my moustache.

[SCantiGOP]

17. Carton??

The milkman doesn’t leave yours on the porch in glass bottles?

On edit, I just remembered something: My son was born in the late 80s and had red hair, even though his Mom had dark black hair. He had heard people joke that “the milkman must have had red hair.”
Someone asked him once when he was about 4 years old where he had gotten that red hair, and he replied that it came from the milkman. Of course the whole room burst into laughter.
Later that day he walked in to where my wife and I were sitting with a quizzical look on his face and said, “What is a milkman?

[dameatball]

25. Lol about the mailman. Those guys get around. The OP said "cartons"....:)

I think. Now I need to go back and read it again.

[SCantiGOP]

32. Oh, it was cartons

I was reflecting on the fact that I am old enough to remember when milk only came in glass bottles. The ultimate recycling, since you had to leave the empties on the porch with your note to the milkman of what you wanted delivered that day.

[yonder]

31. Great story.

[Skittles]

6. no

but as a kid in England I remember shaking the bottle to dislodge crows who were pecking through the foil on top (milk was delivered and left on doorstep)

[I_UndergroundPanther]

36. When I was very little

We had milk delivered it was put in a metal box on our porch.

[trof]

44. You must have lived in a cold climate.

That was to keep it from freezing before you brought it in.

[iamateacher]

7. No

But I remember the milkman delivering...and later in 1990 in England we had milk, eggs, and cheese delivered again!

[elleng]

8. Never!

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Guilty. I was raised in the country and we had our own cows, so shaking was second nature.

I have seen a thin layer of cream rise to the top of homogenized whole milk on a few occasions, so I still shake.

[Timewas]

10. still do

And for the same reason, we have a milk cow. I do recall as a youngster the milk being delivered in bottles and trying to get to it first in mornings to get the cream for my oatmeal
....

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. do you make butter in a blender?

During the 1980's I was living very rural, and had access to to fresh raw milk, used the cream to make butter.
I'd remember my grandmother making butter, she had a hand churn, that fit over a gallon sized jar.

[Timewas]

24. Yes we do

We are not "survivalists" but we grow almost all our own veggies, raise chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys and goats, we milk a cow and the goats. We also raise our own beef...

[OregonBlue]

37. When my mom got fresh milk, she would pour it into

Quart jars and have us kids sit on the floor and roll the jars back and forth to each other. It was fun, and it made butter surprisingly fast.

[Dave in VA]

12. Always have

and still do. Remember the little cartons at school. Wife asks me why I shake the carton and I just say because I always have.

[demosincebirth]

41. You got it!

[LakeArenal]

13. I shake the milk cuz I like the air in it.

Shaken chocolate milk is the bomb

[dixiegrrrrl]

48. Choc. milk, 2 drops of vanilla, whizzed in a blender

better than a choc milkshake anywhere else.

or use your own cocoa and milk, sugar, etc.

[LakeArenal]

49. Yes. Mmmm.

[SonofDonald]

14. Nope

I've never even heard of that

[customerserviceguy]

38. Me, either

I guess I'm not senior enough, even though I'll be 64 next week.

[SonofDonald]

39. I'm 60

Born too late I guess

My kids think I'm old

[SonofDonald]

40. I remember milk being delivered though nt

[5X]

15. Used to tell my first wife that her milk needed to be mixed before breastfeading. n/t

[demosincebirth]

42. Funny

[Lunabell]

16. No

I've always drunk homogenized milk.

[2naSalit]

18. Yes...

not only because we used to get farm fresh milk/cream but because I want to see if it's still usable. I don't drink milk but I use it for cooking and it sits for a day or more when I have it around. By shaking it I can see that bubbles still form which means it hasn't turned yet. I hate the smell of spoiled milk so I'd rather look at it rather than smell it first. Sometimes, when not quite certain, I'll even pour a little in the kitchen sink to see the texture.

[3Hotdogs]

19. When I was in elementary school -- until 1951. Millburn, N.J.

snack milk came in pint, glass bottles with a paper top. There was always a layer of cream that meant we shook it before removing the top.

I stopped shaking milk when it was pointed out that it no longer served a purpose.

[democratisphere]

20. By cracky, I do.

And mine is Almond Milk.

[grantcart]

29. Lol

[Midnight Writer]

21. How about blue milk?

When I was a kid, my Mom and I would walk to the dairy carrying bottles (we didn't have a family car). At the back door in the alley in the evening, they would dump the blue milk. It was white but tinted blue. It had something to do with the cow's diet. It was considered unsellable and they would dump it in a drain behind the dairy. If we used our own bottles, the guy would let us fill our bottles for free.

[Hoyt]

22. Definitely. Had a lot of fresh milk from grandparent's dairy farm. Supposedly homogonized milk

doesn't need it, but I disagree. 2% milk isn't likely to need shaking.

And like poster above said, I like the bubbles.

While I have no scientific proof, I believe milk that does not bubble nicely when shaken, is spoiled or just beginning to spoil.


Now, tell me why smokers always tamp their Marlboro cigarette pack before opening? Used to work in a grocery store, many moons ago, that sold a lot of cigarettes. Every fool that bought Marlboros had to tamp down the pack like part of a ritual.

[unblock]

34. Not a smoker, but I've been told they do it to pack down the tobacco.

It may have loosened up during shipping and handling.

[trof]

45. Yep. Makes it smoke smoother and longer. More uniform.

Former smoker.

[question everything]

23. I have been using almond milk and have not until... recently read on the carton

that it needs to be shake. So, as of two weeks ago - yes.

Oh, and I am using it for my cereal. Coffee is half and half.

[trof]

46. Well I didn't know that. thanks.

[JoeOtterbein]

26. No, but I remember my parents getting it delivered to our house and put in the milk-box outside.

[WheelWalker]

27. Guilty. It's some kind of muscle memory, must be.

[demosincebirth]

50. Yup, I do it without thinking.

[pangaia]

28. Carton? Lol

And, no.. But I DO shake the OJ.

[demosincebirth]

43. Always have shaken the carton. Just a habit from

Yesteryear.

[fantase56]

33. Nope.....

Old, lactose intolerant. Don't drink milk don't shake my beer either.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

35. I'm not exactly an old timer

But yes I shake it to see if it's chunky, I am so used to shaking milk before I use it I end up shaking the almond milk too.

[trof]

47. In summer the milkman would give us chunks of ice out the back of his truck.

Cool, both literally and figuratively.

[rickford66]

51. Sure. If it rattles, I don't drink it.

Also, shaking all liquid containers is a sure way to see if the cap or lid is on tight.