Tips for thawing milk

Question: How do you thaw your milk? I froze a gallon of 2 percent milk but it is taking forever to thaw. It’s been in the refrigerator for three days and it's still frozen.

Answer: In the winter, we pull the milk out the night before we need it and set it in the kitchen sink to defrost. In the summer, this process only takes a couple of hours. If you’re nervous about spoilage, just shake up the gallon every half hour or so. If we need to thaw it faster, we put it in the microwave for  5-7 minutes and then shake it and then put it in again until we have enough thawed out to use. The milk doesn’t spoil, because as it thaws it is cooled by the “ice” in the middle of the gallon. We’ve been doing this for at least 15 years and haven’t had any problems.

Freezing milk allows you to stock up on sale priced milk and not be concerned about it going bad before you use it. Drink up!

We talk about stocking up and many other money saving grocery tips in our Audio CD Stretching Your Grocery Dollars Without Becoming A Coupon Queen