http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/ Engadget Comments for Researchers create sour milk alarm http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/
the chunkyer the better ]]>Mar 15th 2008 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/
Oh and whole milk for the win. Whole Chocolate Milk, no HGH, from a local dairy....MmmmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmmm]]>Mar 16th 2008 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/
If you take the fat out of milk (i.e. 'skim' or fat-free) it's just calcium water with a bit of white food coloring. I drink 1% myself because it's healthy but I think it's a bit silly to pick fat-free because the other stuff is "chunky" =)]]>Mar 16th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 16th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 16th 2008 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/
Secondly, sour milk isn't all bad. Teach your wives and girlfriends to make corn bread out of it and you'll have the best addition to a beef/ turkey/ chili or meatloaf dinner you've ever had.

As for the milk sour warning - I'm suprised they haven't developed a small chemical strip that indicates the quality of the milk by changing color. They could put the strip in the jug and you could visually check it before buying or while its in the fridge.

I supposse the strip would detect ammonia or trace chemicals released by breeding bacteria. In fact, The CAP on top of the jug might be converted into something like this.

Maybe I should apply for a patent.]]>Mar 15th 2008 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/
oh yeah, 2% milk sucks, whole milk FTW!!! (and bonus points if it comes in a glass jug with the cream on top! (ie Straus Family Creamery))]]>Mar 15th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/
1.) "ethanol (the fuel used in most American farm industry)"

Ethanol (pure ethyl alcohol) is not the fuel most used in the American farm industry; that would be diesel. In rare circumstances bio-diesel is used as a substitute, but ethanol is not used in big machinery.

2.) "which in turn has allowed the price of milk here in NY to reach $4.00"

The increase in cost of ethanol has not caused the price of milk to rise, but the two events are related. Ethanol in the U.S. is made (very inefficiently) from corn. Because making ethanol from corn is so inefficient, the process is subsidized out the ass by the government. Corn prices are now at an all time high (because of the increase in demand), and it just happens to be a primary livestock feed. Now with more and more farmers growing corn to reach the demand, there are shortages of everything else => All of the commodity prices are going through the roof, and farmers are making record profits. The increased cost of milk is due to the higher cost of livestock feed and diesel.

If you want to blame the government for something, blame them for subsidizing ethanol. Ethanol doesn't reduce our demand for oil (at best it takes just as much energy in oil to produce it out of corn as it can provide); it's just an excuse to not do anything productive about the energy crisis. Also, ethanol is made productively from sugar cane in South America, but our government prevents any imports.]]>Mar 15th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/
I suppose when you only let them out the kitchen when you need them in the bedroom?]]>Mar 15th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 16th 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/
More importantly: Why are you asking *here*?]]>Mar 15th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/
What is your point again?

Oh right, that we need to learn more about the perils of drinking cow's milk.]]>Mar 17th 2008 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 15th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/As for bacteria, it's pasteurized/sterilized so there should not be any bacteria in it.
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"There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad. ...And there it goes."]]>Mar 15th 2008 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 18th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/researchers-create-sour-milk-alarm/Mar 24th 2008 3:49PM