freezing milk

[lavenderspark]

We freeze our milk since we use so much and can only shop twice a month

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[annieoakley999]

I also do this - I commonly get up to 6 gallons at a time at Costco since we got our deep freeze. Similar to what a few other people have suggested, I would just pour off a little bit from each gallon into a pitcher that you'll keep in the fridge for immediate use, and then freeze the original, less full milk jugs. This is what I used to do when I first started since I just assumed they would expand too much otherwise. After a while I started to wonder if that was really necessary or worth the effort - if they would really burst? So I started just freezing them as-is, and lo and behold, after relaxing my procedure and doing this for about 4 years now, I've only had about 2 or 3 ever crack/burst. (It just meant I had to wash the outside of the jug as soon as I noticed it was leaking in the sink, then sit it in a mixing bowl in the sink while it finished thawing and leaking, then transfer everything to a plastic jug

[kindmemory]

My sis freezes water in plastic ex-juice bottles. She leaves the H2O in the bottles upright in the freezer overnight with the cap off, and when completely frozed, puts the caps on.

This eliminates the container cracking from expansion of air or water. This is half gallon bottles.

It might be that a whole gallon in a plastic jug would work just fine if frozen this way.

Also if you open the paper cartons a bit, make sure they won't spill, they would probably freeze fine. I guess maybe binder clips would keep them closed after they are completely frozen?

[mrs_wills]

I've used quart sized, wide mouth mason jars to freeze milk. The trick is to slightly underfill and freeze with the lids off. With glass jars, you want to find jars that don't taper to the mouth because the expansion of the frozen contents is more likely to break a jar that is tapered than one that is straight-edged.