Great milk: Hood "Smart Select"

I've been off of the group a couple of months visiting Massachusetts. The
supermarket here started carrying last week Hood "Smart Select" milk. They
add a lot of milk protein and extra calcium back into the milk, so that,
according to the carton, their Nonfact Milk "tastes like 2%" and their 1%
Milk "tastes like whole milk." I've gone through a few gallons of it, and I
agree with their claims.

More to the point, I'm getting the best cappa foam in my life, not to
mention good texture.

Anybody else tried this stuff?

Cordo

There are similar brands around the country. They add non-fat dry milk to
the milk which makes it less watery and it does foam nicely. The downside is
that it sells for considerably more than regular milk - roughly double. I
haven't tried it, but I'm guessing that you could add your own non-fat dry
milk to regular milk and accomplish the same thing for a lot less. If you
compare the protein content on one of those cartons to regular milk you
could work out how much dry milk they add, which is probably not much - a
few Tbspoonsful per carton or a teaspoon or two per steaming jug.

"Cordo" <cordoveroREMOVE_THISm> wrote in message
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> I've been off of the group a couple of months visiting Massachusetts. The
> supermarket here started carrying last week Hood "Smart Select" milk.
They
> add a lot of milk protein and extra calcium back into the milk, so that,
> according to the carton, their Nonfact Milk "tastes like 2%" and their 1%
> Milk "tastes like whole milk." I've gone through a few gallons of it, and
I
> agree with their claims.
>
> More to the point, I'm getting the best cappa foam in my life, not to
> mention good texture.
>
> Anybody else tried this stuff?
>
> Cordo
>
>

"butch burton" <febco@genevaonline.com> wrote in message
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>>
> Ken:
>
> Have you ever tried non pasturized milk - there are a few dairies
> around which have qualified to produce and sell the stuff.
>
> It is apple time in WI and one of my fav orchards has a permit to make
> and sell apple juice that has not been pasturized and contains no
> sorbate - wow what a difference. Remember drinking milk still warm
> from the cow as a kid and that was good. Guess I gotta get a cow now.

Hi Butch,

There aren't any dairies in the immediate vicinity. I think a lot of our
milk comes from out of state.

Although there are multiple brands of "organic" milk available here (none of
which froth well in low fat versions, at least in my hands), I've yet to see
unpasteurized milk for sale here.

ken