How is 2 % milk made?!
How is 2 % milk made?
My wife says they put water in whole milk and I say they settle the milk and scrape a little fat off the top. Are we way off or is one of us right/close?
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Hi Dorothy! Milk as it comes from the cow has different amounts (%) of butterfat in it. This amount varies but usually is around 5% or 5 parts of butterfat per 100 parts of solution (or skimmed milk for your purposes). The milk is shipped to a dairy processing plant where the butterfat is removed (this is used to make things like butter and whipping cream) and this is called skimmed milk.
The dairy then adds a certain portion of cream (butterfat) to the milk when it is homogenized (whipped up so the cream (butterfat) doesn't rise to the top anymore) depending on what kind of milk they want to package. They would add 2 parts of cream to every 100 parts of skimmed milk to get 2% milk. Well this discussion has made me hungry