I used to freeze milk, just had to shake it up and it was fine. This was when they sold milk in bags.
Kathy G in MI

I freeze 1 percent milk in the bag and sometimes 2 percent and it thaws okay. Was your milk a whole milk with higher fat content? Not sure if that would make a difference or not.

Anne

I freeze 2% milk. I often buy 2 half gallons, use a cup or so out of one and put the carton in the freezer. It does take a while to thaw. I shake it when I'm ready to use it, which is probably not necessary, just habit I guess, and it is fine.

Question: Y'all buy milk in a bag?

Sue

It was 2%, but I think its been in there since Feb., Does time make a difference, was it frozen too long?

Just recently our milk was on for a real good price, for a limited time. We froze some and it thawed wonderfully.

Now, I just bought a couple pints of half-and-half and put them in the freezer. How does anyone think THIS will freeze?

I always freeze skim milk--no problem w/ it.

JoAnn I don't know about it being frozen too long but I have been freezing gallons of 2% milk since about 1984 with no problems. Just be sure when it is thawed that you shake it very well.

Hi Sue, in Ontario most of us buy our milk in bags or cartons. You can buy a bag of milk that has 3 individual bags approx 1 litre each, or 1 or 2 litre or the smaller cartons of milk. We grew up drinking milk out of glass quart bottles until the bags of milk appeared. I think the only place I see plastic bottles of milk is at a 7-11 and we don't have too many of them in the Windsor area.

Anne

We've frozen milk. When it's thawed, there may well be tiny flakes in there, which are less of a problem if you shake it well after thawing.

Doesn't hurt flavour and is O.K.

I doubt whether it's having been stored for several months will be troublesome.

Some years ago (over 30), the kids and I were bound for the Maritime provinces on vacation.

After we'd been travelling for most of a day, when we stopped for a picnic lunch, the milk in the styrofoam cooler had gone thick.

I tried it - it tasted O.K.

No way were the youngies going to have anything to do with that stuff! Wouldn't even get it close to their mouths!

I told them that it was solely a matter of texture ... but they weren't having any of that argument.

Sometimes kids are willing to be venturesome - sometimes not!

It still gets referred to, on occasion, lo! these many years later.

ole joyful