Hey Lemmy, I recently moved from Ontario, land of bagged milk to BC where they don’t.
So for the second time since moving, my fresh unopened 4L jug of milk made a small puddle in my fridge before opening it. Does anyone have any tricks to prevent that from happening?
Do I just have to enjoy a fresh glass right after returning from the grocery store?
As another person in Ontario who uses both bagged and jug milk: you’re doing something wrong or buying milk that’s at the expiration date and it’s blowing. What you’re describing has never happened to me after 40 years on the planet lol.
Have you tried not using the milk jug as a battering ram to get into your place? (kidding)
Never had this happen with a jug. Either your milk is bad, or you’re doing something funky with the jug itself when you’re bringing it home.
Maybe they open it right away and then put the cap back on? That’s the only thing I can think of
I usually don’t open the seal&cap until I’m going to use it for the first time. After a little bit is used, there’s no way it should be spilling unless you juggle with the jug.
If it’s spilling even without opening it, there’s something wrong with that brand of milk
I’ve got some leads, maybe bring it back on the bus vigorously shook it, and my fridge cooling might be on the strong side, and I stored it sideways right after buying it sometimes.
I’ll admit I was a little drunk yesterday when posting this, so I was getting my fellow members to do some critical thinking for me.
My bet is on storing it sideways.
Have you tried not using the milk jug as a battering ram to get into your place? (kidding)
Damn, I shoulda thought of that.
I take the bus and walk about 15 minutes total from the grocery store and it’s in a grocery bag or my backpack. Vancouver buses accelerate and brake much more vigorously then I generally have experienced on the TTC. Who knows, that might be shaking it?
Only seems feasible if it’s punctured somehow by outside pressure.
Grab one of those jugs from the garbage, fill it up with water, squeeze it. See where the water comes from, from there maybe you can figure out why it’s happening.
I’ve had a milk jug split on the bottom along one of the “seems” or ridges after slamming it down on the counter a little too excitedly. Maybe you’re used to the force-absorbency of a soft bag and transporting/ handling it in a way that’s breaking it?
“seems”
Seams, right? It would seem, seemingly.
#nclb
It seems I’ve made a simple mistake. No reason to come apart at the seams over it.
Thos never happens. Using jugs for decades here
Opposite coast here, but I’ve never had this happen. Maybe your dairy just sucks.
Wtf are you talking about? Return the milk because the container busted.
If you take a typical 4L jug of milk and lay it on its side in your refrigerator without first making sure the lid is tight (right from the grocery store), it can and will slowly leak. I see this all the time. We buy a new 4L jug before the opened one is empty (kids go through a lot) and there’s no room in the fridge to stand it upright… The place we can fit an upright 4L jug is already occupied by the opened 4L jug, the applejuice box, etc.
So… it’s not normal procedure to buy the new jug and just before we lay it on its side on the fridge shelf we check the lid is tight… and no leaks… forget and there’s a small puddle in an hour or so.
Don’t do that then. Easy solution: your fridge is too small.
Idk, it’s just something that happened twice of 3 jugs I’ve bought in the last month. The cap twists off with the snap like it’s normal…
Could be bad jugs, they are thin wall blowmolded and pinched off at the bottom. Could be a small sliver of a crack at the bottom. I have only ever had one leak in decades
I’m very confused even after reading all the comments. Could you maybe take a picture next time it happens? I’m very curious.
I ride a bus that drives around hills and tight corners. I also sometimes jog home with my groceries in my bag. Lots of potential for shake ups, but it’s never been my concern.
I’ve never ever had this happen except one time I let my milk expire and then forgot about it. Ugh.
Ok. I’ve saved your comment. If it happens again I’ll put a picture up! I buy a 4L jug every 2 weeks or so, it may be a while.
Are you storing it laying down?
Might be, sometimes I’m too tired to check where I chuck the jug.
I look forward to your milk 🥺
Land of bagged milk? what? I’ve never seen this.
Yep. Parts of Canada buy their milk in plastic bags, which they cut the corner off of and place in a pitcher. Google it.
I feel obliged to mention in case any poor bastard misreads your post:
which they cut the corner off of and place in a pitcher.
Not in that order.
You’re very kind, but you seem to lack a sense of humor.
What’s the point of having a radically different milk system if CFAs get it on the first try?
The idea that I, as a Big City Ontarian, in this very specific case, am somehow not a come-from-away is hilarious.
Sorry, eh?
Yeah I may have been using the term a little loosely.
I appreciate the capitalization of
Big City Ontarian
WHAT THE FUCK
This is a prank, right? Like the whole Bielefeld thing? You can’t really be trying to tell me Canadians go to a store and WALK OUT WITH MILK IN A PLASTIC BAG??
You go to the bulk store, grab a plastic bag, and have the clerk pour you a bag full of milk. What’s not to understand?
Pour from what?
POUR FROM WHAT??
I’m just messing.
They come in 4L packages, split into three tall 1.33L pouches. You slide the pouch into a pitcher, snip the corner off, and use the pitcher to pour.
If you google milk bags, you’ll see what it is.
It’s just such a crazy thought to sell a liquid in a bag! Though I could see this actually producing less waste than a carton, since the latter has to be lined on the inside, which isn’t easily recyclable.
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Simple, don’t let it curdle.
It happens the day after I buy it and it’s outside the fridge between the supermarket and my home for an hour at most.
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That’s what I’m used to… but I’m buying a 4L jug now that I’m in the Vancouver area… and two separate jugs weeks apart have spilled the morning after buying them both times. Yet after I use the jug, it doesn’t spill after that.
Two weird questions. What’s your fridge set at and how far away do you buy your milk?
It’s pretty common in grocery stores and during shipping for milk containers to break, jugs or bags. I’m wondering if perhaps your fridge is set too high and your store is close enough that when you put the milk in your fridge it would be the coldest object, causing condensation which makes a puddle of ‘milk’ that is washed off the outside of the jug.
Maybe? It’s weird that it doesn’t ‘leak’ after you open it.
Fridge is set to 3/5, but to me it feels a bit colder than a typical fridge, I don’t have a thermometer. You might be on to something there.
My grocery store is 15-20 minutes away and I take a bus a short ways.
Pour the milk into a 4 L pitcher?
I moved briefly to Ontario and I was working at Starbucks at the time, getting used to the milk bags was a nightmare for me, I love the jugs! That being said, like others said, they aren’t supposed to burst like that.
You buy milk by 4 l at a time? Over here the largest bottles of milk you find in the grocery store is 1 l.
I live in Vancouver, my milk jug leaked this week. I thought it was because my wife stored it on its side. I cleaned up the mess, put the milk upright came back layer in the day to discover that it wasn’t the cap that leaked, there was a pin hole leak in the side, so I got to clean up another milk puddle in the fridge.
