Can’t say I’ve seen a raw milk dispenser before

by Classic_Peasant

37 comments
  1. I like nothing better than a magnificent pair of raw milk dispensers

  2. I was thinking “I have, at Binham, it’s not that weird is it..?”

    Then, “oh. That’s the one at Binham.”

  3. I’ve been there, the ice cream is delicious and the abbey is a great place to play sardines with the kids.

  4. I’ve got my own raw milk dispensers. They bring all the boys to the yard.

  5. I know it well. It gets a lot of daily use that machine but as your there I would suggest the Binham Blue in the adjacent machine would be a good purchase. 🙂

  6. I didn’t think they dispensed raw milk, fresh from the udder. It’s pasteurised first, otherwise it would go rancid too quickly, even in the chilled tanks.

    I’ve just checked the website of the farm up the road from me that does this and it’s definitely pasteurised milk and not raw milk.

  7. Fun fact, the raw milk movement might be where we see mutations significant enough in bird flu that can cause a serious outbreak amongst humans.

  8. Oh heck, have the raw milk butters made it over to the UK now?

  9. I’m pretty sure raw milk is banned in Scotland, is it legal in England?

  10. When did people in the UK start saying “Raw” Milk? It’s always been explicitly “Unpasturised Milk” for my entire life.

  11. There’s a couple of them over the hill from me. Sixteen in total, all called after flowers (and the farmer’s ex-girlfriends, heh). Loud as hell, mind you.

  12. Going by how grotty the window of the door looks, I’m sure the dispenser is doing a great job of harbouring all of that bacteria and diseased flavour that raw milk drinkers are looking for

  13. Those splash marks on the screen are giving me fear.

    I’ve worked with raw milk extensively and that is a major red flag. You can contract some nasty illnesses.

  14. I don’t know there was a netflix documentary on this, and one kid got sick so bad from it it has traumatised him for life, others died.

    Never going near raw milk.

  15. “Fun” fact – my grandmother died from typhoid contracted from unpasteurised milk. Ah, the good old days eh.

  16. We’re so devolving. The 19th and 20th century would be crying at us.

  17. Here is why unpasteurised or raw milk is a health hazard:

    “Pasteurisation is a process that involves heating milk to a high temperature followed by rapid cooling before it is bottled or packaged, to ensure safety to the consumer by eliminating harmful bacteria present in the milk as well as extend shelf life. Different temperature-time combinations are permitted, with the holding time being that required to achieve a specified reduction in the titre of the most heat resistant microorganism typically found in the foodstuff at the indicated temperature. For milk, this is a 12-log reduction in the numbers of *Coxiella burnetii.”* [*https://www.food.gov.uk/research/foodborne-pathogens/rapid-risk-assessment-risk-to-uk-consumers-from-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai-h5n1-b313-in-us-dairy-products*](https://www.food.gov.uk/research/foodborne-pathogens/rapid-risk-assessment-risk-to-uk-consumers-from-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai-h5n1-b313-in-us-dairy-products)

    “Experiments were devised to assess if virus [high pathogenicity avian influenza] artificially spiked into unpasteurised milk, would remain infectious after simulating a pasteurisation process while working inside our secure laboratories. The experimentation demonstrated that the pasteurisation successfully killed the virus, rendering milk that had been treated in this way safe. Samples were also assessed for virus survival over time in milk to mimic what might occur in a milking parlour where high concentrations of milk may be present in the environment that might act as a source of onward infection. This demonstrated that high levels of virus could be detected over a considerable time period in milk.” [https://aphascience.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/02/aphas-response-to-high-pathogenicity-avian-influenza-threats-in-cattle/](https://aphascience.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/02/aphas-response-to-high-pathogenicity-avian-influenza-threats-in-cattle/)

    If you don’t want to – or cannot – drink pasteurised dairy cow milk, you might want to try some plant-based milks instead. Soya, oat, coconut, almond, rice, hazelnut, cashew, pea. 1L of Grower’s Harvest soya milk is 50p at Tesco.

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