/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19299398]

Bro I'm in Canada and they sell milk in bags

[Anonymous No.19299400]

Bro I'm in canada they sell everything at a high price

[Anonymous No.19299404]

Is Milhouse a meme there?

[Anonymous No.19299412]

what is the advantage of bagged milk?

[Anonymous No.19299413]

>>19299398
no freaking way!

[Anonymous No.19299415]

>>19299412
less expensive, less plastic waste clogging landfills

[Anonymous No.19299426]

>>19299412
it's hard to carry by hand

[Anonymous No.19299431]

>>19299415
>less plastic waste
>than a glass bottle or paper carton

[Anonymous No.19299446]

>>19299412
probably just easier to transport or something. Glass bottles is the only think milk should be sold in.

[Anonymous No.19299526]

>>19299431
plastic bottles are by far the most popular type of milk container, once deflated a bag is going to take up like 1% of the space as those

[Anonymous No.19299552]

>>19299412
more microplastics in the goyslop
>1% fat
>2% fat
the 2 % is already "skimmed", real milk is over 3%

[Anonymous No.19299590]

>>19299398
>milk in bags

[Anonymous No.19299667]

>>19299552
We have that too, its the red bags, 3.25%

[Anonymous No.19299682]

>>19299590
>Bea Arthur drawn like that
Cursed more than Judas' silver.

[Anonymous No.19300177]

>>19299412
It's a 4 liter format that fits anywhere, unlike a gallon jug. Stays fresh a bit longer when you collapse the air out of the bag and shut the end. I don't drink or use milk enough to justify buying bags over a pint of pure filtre. My sister has 3 kids and she goes through a lot of them.

[Anonymous No.19300186]

>>19299398
>2.99 milk
take me back bros...

[Anonymous No.19300194]

>>19299400
>Bro I'm in canada they sell everything at a high price

that's because the farmers have ((marketing boards)) which are basically cartels

[Anonymous No.19300197]

>>19299398
this gives me anxiety

[Anonymous No.19300202]

>>19300197
it's because you are weak

[Anonymous No.19300214]

>>19299526
If waste was the actual concern, why aren't paper cartons mandatory

Just admit it's to cut costs

[Anonymous No.19300220]

>>19300214
Cartons are also lined with plastic on the inside

[Anonymous No.19300255]

>>19300214
>>19300220
glass bottles with recycling is the best enviro way and long term cost of packaging.

this is actually how the beer industry is set up in Canada.

the reason plastic is used so much everywhere is because of the oil industry.

[Anonymous No.19300966]

>>19300255
they don't recycle beer bottles in the US?

[Anonymous No.19301058]

>>19300966
they do. the homeless pick them up and turn them in for a nickle a bottle/can

[Anonymous No.19301076]

>>19299412

Convenient way to buy 4 liters of it at a time. Useful if you have a big family or you just fucking love milk a lot - or maybe you just want to load up on estrogen and grow tits. They seem cumbersome but all you need is a plastic milk pitcher, then you put the bag in and then cut a small hole on the corner. Super easy to pour and comes out with a nice piss strength stream (which can be adjusted, if you cut the hole larger...but then your milk pours out pretty fast).

[Anonymous No.19301137]

>>19301076
life hack: cut a small hole, then make a small vertical cut too

[Anonymous No.19301217]

>>19300255

True, though a big reason for the switch to plastics was weight. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to ship single use plastic than it is to ship empty glass bottles to a drink producer, fill them up, ship them to stores etc, collect the returns and ship those back.

We really should just go back to glass for everything though. The Beer Store (in Ontario anyway) has it figured out with the collection system. The Québécois have a similar system, but it's much more European...kind of like the pfand system in Germany where you can return just about everything, not just alcohol bottles. It's less wasteful because glass can be used for a long time and it fucks over the oil baron cucks.

[Anonymous No.19301223]

Here in Saskatchewan we use paper cartons. They work good.

[Anonymous No.19301226]

>>19299398
How do you pour it?

[Anonymous No.19301240]

>>19300255
>the oil industry
The oil industry forced lower production costs onto the companies? Do you believe that?

[Anonymous No.19301263]

>>19301226
You put a hole in the bag and the milk pours out from there. Once you're done you have 3 seconds to put the milk back before it explodes.

[Anonymous No.19301279]

>>19301240
>triple wrap products that don't need even need wrapping
>make soap bottles out of plastic that could survive a nuclear blast
>use the cheapest, most brittle plastic for parts that actually need to be wear resistent
>half the plastics aren't even recyclable
yeah no

[Anonymous No.19301289]

>>19299412
Can freeze it and take it out a bag at a time

[Anonymous No.19301304]

>>19301289
frozen milks turns all weird though

[Anonymous No.19301307]

>>19301279
We're talking about milk bags, right?

[Anonymous No.19301315]

>>19300194
yeah blame the farmers who are paid literal fuckin pennies instead of the multi-billions dollars corporate that sells the food to you at 15x the price. Idiot.

[Anonymous No.19301431]

>>19301315
>paid literal fuckin pennies
You must only know retarded farmers, everyone here gets a ton of subsidies, tax breaks and guaranteed pricing.
Hell my previous neighbor renovated 2 barns, built an agricultural garage with heated floors and got a brand new John Deer harvester fully kitted out for effectively 12k out of his pocket.

[Anonymous No.19301534]

>>19299398
how do you pour the milk from the bag in your glass?

[Anonymous No.19301538]

>>19301534

Easy.

[Anonymous No.19301544]

>>19301538
WITCH

[Anonymous No.19301545]

imagine the smell when a bag leaks all over the inside of your car

[Anonymous No.19301551]

>>19301538
then do you close the bag with a clothespin afterwards?

[Anonymous No.19301558]

>>19301545
those bags are actually pretty tough. anyone who ever tried opening one without scissors know what I'm talking about.

[Anonymous No.19301609]

>>19301076
I don't know why but that's one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen. Maybe now we can put the plastic pitcher into a larger container, perhaps a large bowl or...a cardboard box Hahahahaha

[Anonymous No.19301614]

>>19301558

You gotta bite it with your teeth, though it usually results in a fucked up hole that doesn't pour that well.

[Anonymous No.19301631]

>>19301551

This is kind of hard to answer.

On one hand, buying milk in this quantity (it's 4 liters...you get 3 bags within the bag you see in the OP photo) only makes sense if you go through it fast enough. If you don't use as much, we also have cartons and jugs here. But bags are most common, though only in certain provinces like Ontario and IDK where else.

But at the same time, you don't really need to close it. It would preserve freshness to some degree, though it's so negligible. You wouldn't really notice any taste difference between a bag of milk and a carton that has a cap. Milk is a product that has a shit ton of quality control, so it's very sterile to begin with. In Canada, there are also 11 preservatives a producer can add, meaning the milk stays good quite a long time so you don't really need to close it up.

If you wanted to, yeah you could take a clothespin or some sort of paper clip or bag clip and put it on the end. However basically nobody does this because the milk will be just fine in the fridge. The hole is only about as big as a pencil (unless for some reason you cut a huge one) so not much air is going in.

[Anonymous No.19301637]

>>19300255
Wrong. If we do a full lifecycle analysis it's very heavy to transport and it takes a lot of energy to clean and disinfect.

Recycling is a meme. Even more so for glass. What we should be focusing on is plastics that don't release toxic compounds when burned, and then just burn everything.

[Anonymous No.19301650]

>>19301631

Correction. There aren't 11 preservatives allowed in milk but the details don't matter. It stays fresh just fine.

[Anonymous No.19301653]

>>19301637
>we made plastics from carbon
>the plastic must return to carbon
That's an okay idea until you realize that crude oil up until extraction is geologically sequestrated carbon.

[Anonymous No.19301657]

>>19301637

You don't recycle the bottles though. You reuse them. There are countless countries in the world which collect and reuse glass bottles just fine.

Recycling is, by definition, the conversion of the material of used materials into a *new* product. Reusing is just collecting a packaging and reusing it, until the lifecycle of reuse is exhausted as there are generally limits on it for various reasons (damage, sanitary issues etc). At that point, you then recycle it.

[Anonymous No.19301665]

>>19301653
we can create plastics that are not made from carbons we dug up.

>>19301657
>There are countless countries in the world which collect and reuse glass bottles just fine.
And it's pointlessly expensive AND energy intensive.

[Anonymous No.19301677]

>>19301631
ok i understand, guess it works out if you're a big milk drinker.

11 different preservatives seems a lot for a natural product

[Anonymous No.19301698]

>>19301665

It costs less energy to reuse glass bottles than it does to acquire all the raw resources to produce a near infinite amount of plastics to create garbage with, dumbass. Big oil propaganda really worked on you didn't it? Glass is and always has been a superior, classic material