Power Outage and Milk - what can i do with this milk?

[avendesora]

x-posted in nutrition.

Our electricity was out for 26 hours. We managed to not open the refridgerator door at all during that time.

There had been good sales recently, so I have a ton of organic milk and silk. Would you still drink it after 26 hours? Would you cook it and freeze it? (Like into soups or something?) Pasturize it and make yogurt?

Luckily our fridge was really full - a full fridge stays colder longer. And more luckily, most of the things in the fridge aren't that perishable: apples, whole wheat flour, whole grains. Except all this milk. We're vegetarians, so I don't have to worry about any meat going off. We do have a bit of mayo, sour cream, cheese. Should I be worried? I had also just made a bunch of yogurt; is it still good?

If I had been brilliant, maybe I would have opened the fridge, pulled all the milk out and made a ton of yogurt...

Thanks!
Aven

[Ravin]

I would check the fridge's temperature when you first open it. If it all stayed pretty cool, I'd just keep using stuff, and toss anything that smelled sour.

[ASusan]

My mother always used to make pudding when we had extra milk to finish up. You could do a few batches of pudding, and make some of the batches into pudding popsicles. You can also put pudding into recycles yogurt containers and freeze them. Then you can pack them into a lunch. By lunchtime, it will have thawed into dessert. It also works as an icepack to keep your lunch cool.