Cheese Out of Human Breastmilk.

Posted by Alex in Food & Drinks on June 11, 2007 at 2:30 am


Rani of Indirani blog decided to make something different – cheese from human breast milk. This, however, turned out to be impossible:

It turned out that breast milk can not curdle, because the protein content is lower, and because the protein in breast milk is more easily digested compared to cow’s milk. That’s why, unmodified cow’s milk is unsuitable for babies. And on the other hand, adding acid to further ‘digest’ breastmilk protein won’t curdle the milk.

So, the moral of the story, YOU CANNOT MAKE CHEESE OUT OF BREASTMILK. Don’t even try.

But not all hope is lost – there are plenty of other possibilities:

I suppose, making breast milk yogurt / human yogurt would be possible, although I don’t think it would be as creamy as cow’s milk yogurt. I suppose breast milk yogurt would be really runny. And I think breast milk butter / human yogurt would be possible but you’d need liters and liters of fresh breast milk to start off. Definitely you could make cream soup out of breast milk, and perhaps milk shake and smoothies too. Or as pancake. Many things !

Link – via Random Good Stuff and Boing Boing


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8 comments to "Cheese Out of Human Breastmilk."

  1. Daniel Kim
    June 11th, 2007 at 6:36 am

    When our daughter was a baby, we took her to the zoo. Whe had bottles of breast milk in a small cooler that was then attached to her stroller.

    After an afternoon of walking around the zoo, her bottled milk had formed clumps of . . . butter!

  2. xeno
    June 11th, 2007 at 7:14 am

    I want dog cheese.

  3. lore
    June 11th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    My mother-in-law used to make pancakes with her milk. Her whole family loved them, but other relatives were too squicked to eat them after they found out what the "secret ingredient" was. My MIL told me it was just more convenient than going to the store if she ran out of 2%...

  4. Chris
    June 11th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    iore : eew!

  5. Bryan
    June 11th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    I want that cat that Thufir Hawat had in the movie version of Dune - the one that he had to milk every day in order to get the antidote to the poison in his system.
    "You must milk this smoooth little cat's body!"

  6. vashley
    June 12th, 2007 at 3:05 am

    can i try some of those pancakes?? No. .. seriously.. you shouldn't let whats in the food cloud your judgment of it.... I mean it's a little gross/.. but hey nothing ventured nothing gained..right?

  7. aazis
    June 12th, 2007 at 9:53 am

    what's next? cakes made of human blood?

  8. TzarC
    June 13th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    A friend of mine would occasionally mix up "Mother Russias" at parties, which is, of course, a white Russian with breast milk. Surprisingly tasty, though most were too weirded out to try one.


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