I had no evaporated skim milk in the house yest. for a certain Thai recipe. I tried the old substitute of water and the powdered milk, but there IS a big diff. in taste, I thought. So much for buying the canned stuff and spending a little more - I think it's worth it.

Any idea why the diff in taste?

On 7/23/2013 9:25 AM, Kalmia wrote:
> I had no evaporated skim milk in the house yest. for a certain Thai recipe. I tried the old substitute of water and the powdered milk, but there IS a big diff. in taste, I thought. So much for buying the canned stuff and spending a little more - I think it's worth it.
>
> Any idea why the diff in taste?
>

Evaporated milk always has tasted different from regular milk. You can
mix it 50-50 with water and it won't ever taste like regular milk.
Reconstituted powdered milk doesn't taste like milk or evaporated milk.
The old folks used to use evaporated milk in coffee. I like the old
school taste but that kills my guts. Condensed milk in coffee and tea is
even better but that's deadly poison to me. The secret to great Chinese
custard pie is canned evaporated milk. The differences in these milks
are also the concept behind tres leches cake.

Some people say that adding a drop or two to reconstituted powdered milk
will make it taste like fresh milk. These people have no sense of taste.

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On 7/23/2013 3:25 PM, Kalmia wrote:
> I had no evaporated skim milk in the house yest. for a certain Thai recipe. I tried the old substitute of water and the powdered milk, but there IS a big diff. in taste, I thought. So much for buying the canned stuff and spending a little more - I think it's worth it.
>
> Any idea why the diff in taste?
>

Evaporated? Powdered? Skim?

Not coconut?

Susan

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:25:13 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> wrote:

>I had no evaporated skim milk in the house yest. for a certain Thai recipe. I tried the old substitute of water and the powdered milk, but there IS a big diff. in taste, I thought. So much for buying the canned stuff and spending a little more - I think it's worth it.
>
>Any idea why the diff in taste?

Powdered milk is spray dried, so it's going to change the taste and
mouth feel drastically.

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:37:00 -0400, Susan > wrote:

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>
>On 7/23/2013 3:25 PM, Kalmia wrote:
>> I had no evaporated skim milk in the house yest. for a certain Thai recipe. I tried the old substitute of water and the powdered milk, but there IS a big diff. in taste, I thought. So much for buying the canned stuff and spending a little more - I think it's worth it.
>>
>> Any idea why the diff in taste?
>>
>
>Evaporated? Powdered? Skim?
>
>Not coconut?

Yeah, coconut cream or milk would have been a better option, IMO

dsi1 wrote:
>
> Some people say that adding a drop or two to reconstituted powdered milk
> will make it taste like fresh milk. These people have no sense of taste.

Only fresh milk tastes like fresh milk.

G.

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:17:19 -1000, dsi1
> wrote:

> Evaporated milk always has tasted different from regular milk. You can
> mix it 50-50 with water and it won't ever taste like regular milk.
> Reconstituted powdered milk doesn't taste like milk or evaporated milk.
> The old folks used to use evaporated milk in coffee. I like the old
> school taste but that kills my guts. Condensed milk in coffee and tea is
> even better but that's deadly poison to me.

There is lactose free milk now, you'd think the concept would have
been expanded to condensed and evaporated milk by this time too.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

On 7/23/2013 11:29 AM, Gary wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
>>
>> Some people say that adding a drop or two to reconstituted powdered milk
>> will make it taste like fresh milk. These people have no sense of taste.
>
> Only fresh milk tastes like fresh milk.
>
> G.
>

I like your way of putting things.

Kalmia wrote:
> I had no evaporated skim milk in the house yest. for a certain Thai
> recipe. I tried the old substitute of water and the powdered milk,
> but there IS a big diff. in taste, I thought. So much for buying the
> canned stuff and spending a little more - I think it's worth it.
>
> Any idea why the diff in taste?

I grew up on powdered milk. I think all milk tastes bad but I really didn't
like the powdered. Not sure I ever had canned milk, although I did keep a
few small cans for emergencies when we lived in CA. Turns out I never
needed to use them but did give one to a neighbor once who needed milk and
couldn't get out to get any. I still use powered on occasion for cooking.
Not often now because husband drinks the real stuff so I almost always have
it in the house. But when he was not here, we rarely bought real milk so if
making something like mac and cheese, I'd use the powdered.

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:54:05 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:17:19 -1000, dsi1
> wrote:
>
>> Evaporated milk always has tasted different from regular milk. You can
>> mix it 50-50 with water and it won't ever taste like regular milk.
>> Reconstituted powdered milk doesn't taste like milk or evaporated milk.
>> The old folks used to use evaporated milk in coffee. I like the old
>> school taste but that kills my guts. Condensed milk in coffee and tea is
>> even better but that's deadly poison to me.
>
>There is lactose free milk now, you'd think the concept would have
>been expanded to condensed and evaporated milk by this time too.

The concept of lactose free stuff has been expanded to half & half and
whipping cream. That's good enough for me, right now.

Doris

On 7/23/2013 11:54 AM, sf wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:17:19 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> Evaporated milk always has tasted different from regular milk. You can
>> mix it 50-50 with water and it won't ever taste like regular milk.
>> Reconstituted powdered milk doesn't taste like milk or evaporated milk.
>> The old folks used to use evaporated milk in coffee. I like the old
>> school taste but that kills my guts. Condensed milk in coffee and tea is
>> even better but that's deadly poison to me.
>
> There is lactose free milk now, you'd think the concept would have
> been expanded to condensed and evaporated milk by this time too.
>

When they come out with lactose free condensed milk, I'll have to try
it. My assumption is that the Vietnamese have the same problems with
lactose that most Asians have yet their coffee and tea has a great deal
of condensed milk. It's odd. Perhaps they accept the price of admission
or maybe their bodies develop some sort of immunity to the ill effects
of sweetened condensed milk.