spoiled milk for cheese

[Zuulass 45]

so i watched a video about making spoiled milk into some cheese and i thought it would fit in dayz because the stores and the apocalypse and all and there would be a lot of spoiled milk maybe.

 

making the milk into cheese is easy too

 

um video

 

also but if you um drink the milk you can get sick

Edited September 7, 2013 by Zuulass

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

There's a difference between sour milk and spoiled milk, but I do like the general idea.  In dayz the problem would be getting everything you need to turn milk into cheese, even if you just boil some fresh milk you get from a cow in an empty can over a campfire, you'd still need a cheesecloth (though I'm sure there's things you can substitute) and vinegar.  Still in a survival situation I'd probably be both easier and better to just drink the milk (water and fat, whereas cheese is pretty much just fat).  Cheese-making really only came about as a way to preserve excess milk as a foodstuff.  If SA ever got that deep where we could and actually had to make preserved foods if we wanted them to last for more than a day this would be a good idea.

Edited September 7, 2013 by BigMike

[enforcer1975 1111]

Actually having to make non perishable food is a good idea for survival situations. Mostwould go for the easy ones while i think cheese is quite time consuming...

[Hosty 647]

Rednecks would love that

Kidding.

 

But in my opinion, cheese wouldn't really be useful when all you have to do is shoot/stab a cow and fry the meat.

[Wolfensteinsaurus 2252]

Good idea, cheese also gets sweaty and degraded when being in a rucksack for a long time, under amounts of heat and sweat, so that would be good. If the Disease meter or disgust meter I being added, then it might lower it.

Edited September 7, 2013 by Wolfensteinsaurus

[AP_Norris 1018]

The domestic animals that escaped should be jumpy, but you should be able to approach slowly and milk them, cows, goats, sheep are all used in cheese.

Another option for food preservation should be lots of salt.

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

Cheese is for scrubs with nothing to lose.

Honey is OP. Lasts literally forever.

[Cormyr 39]

Not sure about cheese making. Maybe you could find some in the world and have to scrape off the moldy part with a knife or something like that. Finding vinegar would be cool, a means to preserve veggies in a jar maybe. And salt to preserve meats.

[Zuulass 45]

i thought it was a good idea

 

just find old milk, vingure or something, and a cloth

 

would be usefull if you had the milk but needed to eat

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Overall it is a good idea.  But again there's a very big difference between sour milk and spoiled milk.  Sour milk just tastes slightly off and is starting to go bad but is still consumable.  Spoiled milk is more than just slightly bad tasting, its riddled with bacteria and germs, not just the bacteria that helps to make cheese.  We also have to remember that milk is technically a foodstuff rather than just a drink like water.  Its the reason why it's physically impossible to drink a gallon of milk in under a half hour without puking.  If it was water you'd just piss yourself when your bladder overfills.

Your original idea was pretty good, but as for finding say a carton of spoiled milk in a fridge (long after the power's gone out) and making it into cheese, that part's not a good idea.  Say you find a cow and manage to milk it out in the wild, (if the cow was healthy you could get away with drinking it straight from the udder, or pasteurize it yourself if your not sure about it).  Say you harvest enough milk that you can't drink it all (and refrigerators are out of commission at this point), then you could use the rest to make cheese to eat later (vinegar isn't the only way either, that's just one way).