My parents got tired of skimming the cream off the top of milk to get unchunky milk so they picked up a sun tea jar and bingo, it takes milk from under the cream. Also when it's almost empty you have all your cream ready to go.

Pro Tip: The lower the spigot the better

I love it!

I've had this same idea, but I have not yet been able to find one of these in glass and I don't like the idea of the plastic ones you see at Wal-Mart.

We always used to just shake it up and drink it cream and all. Wouldn't you be getting skim milk essentially?

We do that, too, porkpal, but once the milk is a couple days old it's time to skim off that cream and make clabber with the skim milk.

Hmmm, I've heard this idea before (actually MANY years ago), but goat milk doesn't cooperate as well as cow's. I've never seen a plastic sun tea jar! We have 3 or 4 and they're all glass. I think they came from Safeway.

My spousal unit was not amused if I needed cream for a dessert if I went and skimmed it off the top of the cooler...........LOLOL Never did it that often, and I acutally could get better cream by taking it off the milk I took for the house. Smaller container, and easier to skim.

You actually need to run the milk through a cream separator in order to have "skim milk". Just manually skimming (even all of the risen cream) from the top, you still retain a lot of cream in the milk, way more than "2%" milk. Cream straight from a Jersey cow has a LOT more cream in it than the "whole milk" you would buy at the store.

dborel said:My parents got tired of skimming the cream off the top of milk to get unchunky milk so they picked up a sun tea jar and bingo, it takes milk from under the cream. Also when it's almost empty you have all your cream ready to go.

Pro Tip: The lower the spigot the better

What a terrific idea!

We just stir the milk up, but then, we go through most of a gallon a day, so I've never had it get 'chunky'.

Anna, we used to skim the tank for ice cream once a year - the milk man almost always lost the sample that day, fell out of the truck or something. Ah, the good old days...

Actually when I first saw this thread I expected to see the picture of someone milking a cow straight into a cat's mouth. Surely that is the easiest?

porkpal said:Actually when I first saw this thread I expected to see the picture of someone milking a cow straight into a cat's mouth. Surely that is the easiest?

Yup it is.

Actually this may be the easiest way to drink milk at our farm.

Gee! What a GREAT idea!
(which i obviously never thought of! LOL)
We drink raw cows milk (shares) so this is a great tip.
THANKS!!!

The easiest way to drink milk directly from the farm is to produce it yourself. Also if you have special equipment like this https://merry-farm.com/ you can produce sub milk products like cream and cheese.

We raised Holsteins, not much butterfat nor cream, so had to add a Swiss or Jersey for the testing. I think we went thru 2 gals a day when we 5 kids were growing. Glass jugs, yes. Any butter we got meant a vat of 2000# of milk hadn't cooled properly and so was one of our chores to check temps during the milking and during the day. Clabber, shudder, never could stand that stuff. Really love Daisy sour cream, but was accustomed to making sour cream with lemon juice so that never slowed me down. I cannot say I am fond of buttermilk- it just seems wrong to me. Not accustomed to goats milk at all, but I do like a soft goat cheese. The hard goat cheeses remind me of chewing plastic...