Oat milk.
 

One word. Yuk. What is your review to this new non animal milk?

Haha! I don't think I want to try it after reading what you wrote https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png

To be honest though, I don't like stuff that's a substitute for the real thing. Maybe there are exceptions but I can't think of any. Come to think of it I don't like milk at all. I never did but my parents made me drink it until I grew up!

I use unsweetened almond milk, but I don't drink it. I think it seems rich on cereal and I like that. Tried making dumplings for stew (Bisquick) with it. They we're "sinkers"!

I watched a youtube video how the commercial almond milk is made. Not very many almonds in it at all, a ridiculous number of almonds per half gallon. If you make your own you use lots of almonds. I have had homemade almond milk and it tastes nothing like the commercial brands. I always wondered how a half gallon of commercial almond milk is so inexpensive compared to making your own.

I like ice cold whole fat milk. Sometimes I will add heavy cream to a gallon of milk to get it to taste like the milk I had growing up.

I like half & half in my coffee and I love milk products, just not milk lol

i'm not much of a fan of any of the milk substitutes. My nutritionist wants me to stay away from dairy because it causes inflammation so I use almond milk that I make myself when it works. I think that soy milk tastes the best to drink, but not as good as cow's milk or my personal favorite goats milk.

I am not and never have been a big milk drinker. We used nonfat milk, cheese, and cottage cheese. Then a few years ago my Dr. recommended I take the Vitamin D3. I did a bit of research and found with all the use of sun screen and non-fat milk products people were Vitamin D deficiencies. So I started using the 2% milk, and use regular cheeses, and cottage cheese. I get at least 15 -20 minutes of sunshine a day (in So. CA that's not hard to do). My last bone density test showed a major improvement. So I am definitely not looking for milk substitutes any more.

I rarely drink milk products but I haven’t met a cheese I don’t like. Having said that, I have discovered that dairy is not my friend now that I am in my fifties...I just purchased an oat creamer for my coffee and put 1 tablespoon at 10 calories in my cup in the morning.

The best tasting non milk to me is Flax milk. It's hard to find in my area because the stores couldn't sell enough of it. The pedrictionas my kids over the years told me don't give my kids soy products so I never bought any to try.

My DH decided he was lactose intolerant, (not doctor diagnosed), so he started buying Lactaid milk, and every other substitute out there. No Thank You! The milk is fine, but I won't drink the almond, soy, vanilla, or what ever else he brings home. Yuk! I do wonder though how I go through my cheese and dairy products so fast! I just cannot adjust to the taste of all his stuff. I like to leave well enough alone!

I don't like Oat Milk, but I regularly drink almond milk, both commercial and homemade. I do still love animal milk cheeses, but I eat them very rarely. I also like Kite Hill, almond milk cheese and yogurt products.

Couldn’t get past the color. Doesn’t look very appetizing to me.

I tried all kinds of plant based milks for coffee creamer and finally went back to half & half. I do use the plant milks for tea and cereal. Not a big milk drinker as a beverage.

I've only tried vanilla almond milk. It's OK but l wasn't all that impressed. I switched to Fairlife milk.

Oat milk is great, I pretty much eat a plant based diet. It's easy to make from steel cut oats. It can be used as a coffee creamer, in pancakes, mashed potatoes and anything else you put milk in. I am not a big milk drinker, never was so I don't drink a big glass of it with my breakfast.

Retired Dairy Farmer here ........
Yes, as you can imagine only Real Milk and its dairy products for me!

Howeverrrrrr .... please please please, do not call these faux products Milk
Mammals produce milk .... cows, goats, sheep, etc. and yes, that includes humans.
Almonds, oats, soy etc. are not mammals.
Therefore, these are not milk, but beverages, drinks, etc.

Stepping down off my soapbox now ....
Sorry but am too proud of my dairy heritage to let these others impersonate!

I am a recently retired dairy farmer and have drank milk every day for the last 68 years! Oh I so agree, QuiltE; your definition of milk is spot on. My particular grief is why is milk sold by fat percentage and not by its fat free designation; ie whole milk is 96.5% fat free, 2% is 98% fat free. And look there's only a 1.5% fat difference in the two! My little soap box.

And yes there are folks out there allergic to lactose (the natural sugar in milk) and how unfortunate it is that they miss out on all the wonderful vitamins and minerals found in milk as it is a very nutrient dense food.

In regards to the Vitamin D issue. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin (as is Vitamin A); in other words only carried in fat. If you take the fat out, you also take out the Vitamin D!

How would you distinguish between coconut milk and coconut water? They're both beverages.

You just brought back a childhood memory ... Every once in a while my Dad would treat us, and buy a coconut, cut it open and we would drink the water, and the best part ..... scoop out the coconut!! Oh that was SO good!!! :)

Coconut water is the natural liquid you get when you open a coconut.
I would suspect coconut water, purchased without the coconut, is processed to some extent, in order for it to keep. Perhaps with some additives? Perhaps the nutrient contents change? I don't have the answers, just questions I would ask.

Coconut beverage is a processed product, like almond, soy, oat, rice, etc. drinks are.
They all make me "cringe" with the word milk added to them. Just so not true.

Is there room for me on that soapbox with you, OKSoGlad?
Especially when you consider all the other foods we eat, that are much much higher in % fat content. So many avoid whole milk, yet it's pretty darned low in fat, when compared to so many other foods we eat that are so fat filled!


Are Vitamins A and D added to milk in the USA? Health Canada mandated the fortification of milk years ago (in the 70s, I think?) to ensure that we get the much needed benefits of both.

Yes, they are added to milk, but not a mandatory addition.

Thanks OKSewGlad ... always interesting to learn more about the differences/similarities between our countries.

I buy Darigold brand whole milk. The grands love the chocolate milk, made from whole milk and tastes like a creamy milkshake. I don't buy milk in see through jugs.

Since the pandemic hit, we have been buying many things direct from local farmers and that includes milk. One dairy has a store onsite, open during daylight hours. It is on the honor system. A couple of coolers stocked with milk: white, chocolate and strawberry as well as several different varieties of dairy made cheeses. The milk is pasturized (law in Ohio) but not homogenized. My DH loves to pour the chocolate milk straight into the ice cream maker and add various goodies. You can see the cows in the milking parlor from inside the store. There is another dairy whose milk is even richer (think icebergs of cream) but they are too far to get to regularly. Luckily the milk is sold at the little store run by the folks we buy our grass fed meat from. And don't get me started on the butter. All this yumminess and no weight gain is possible with portion control.

Does the oat milk separate in your coffee? I make almond milk and it does separate, if I don't add some guar gum to it.

You could probably make your own. I'd start by buying flax seeds in bulk and them whizzing them in the blender with some water, then strain. Humm....I have some flax seeds. I may just try that. :D

Wow! Lucky you! I used to have some friends that had a huge herd of dairy goats. I'd get some fresh milk from them and made cheese with it. So good!

I never heard of oat milk until this thread but just yesterday my oldest son told me how much he loves it in coffee.

So...I tried making some oat milk yesterday. Here's what I found:

It's very easy to make.
Super cheap to make.
Left it in the fridge for several hours and it didn't separate.
It tastes good, but it left a chalky mouth-feel.
It's good cold, but when I heated it up, it coagulated and got lumpy, probably because of the starch content.

Since I usually use most of my plant milk heated up and added to my coffee, I don't think that oat milk wouldn't work for me. However, cold, maybe with some sweetener, vanilla and cocoa, it might make for a nice chocolate shake.

That's my humble opinion on that.