{"id":796,"date":"2023-08-25T12:08:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:08:21","slug":"milk-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/2023\/08\/25\/milk-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First Glance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A consistent source of entertainment for me is seeing what videos YouTube decides to slap on my homepage. I do my best to lock down my data online and preventing Google from keeping my search history or any of my cookies has completely bamboozled YouTube\u2019s already shitty algorithm.<\/a> Alongside off-the-wall recommendations like \u201cDoctor Mike\u201d reacting to people\u2019s reactions of his own videos, compilations of Zendaya and Tom Holland being cute together, and full episodes of Kitchen Nightmares, a lot of the videos that end up in my feed have to do with milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Double Take<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some examples of video titles that have flashed across my screen: \u201cJust Need Chocolate And Milk Make This Delicious Dessert,\u201d \u201cNo cooking only one cup milk dessert recipe,\u201d \u201cHave Milk at home? Make this Easy and Delicious dessert without flour! No oven,\u201d and \u201cHow to turn milk into a sweet and chewy snack in three minutes.\u201d The clickbait titles of these videos imply that without going to the grocery store to buy specific things or turning on a single appliance, milk can turn into some kind of magical tasty dessert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s fairly obvious that these recipes aren\u2019t as easy and magical as you would think. Take the \u201cNo cooking only one cup milk dessert recipe:\u201d according to the description the recipe actually needs bread, powdered milk, saffron, sugar, cardamom, dried fruit, and thick cream in addition to the titular milk. The \u201csweet and chewy snack\u201d is mostly tapioca starch and the \u201cjust need chocolate and milk\u201d recipe looks like it requires at least 4 sheets of gelatin. But of course the recipe isn\u2019t framed around tapioca, gelatin, or even sugar, milk is the magic ingredient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube is full of fake food hacks that take advantage of supposed magical properties of foods and kitchen gadgets: putting skittles in a waffle iron, cooking burgers in a toaster, or popping popcorn with m&ms. The appeal makes sense: it isn\u2019t out of the realm of possibility that colorful industrial products like skittles and pop-rocks have some secrets hiding from us, don\u2019t forget that folks were eating tide pods a year ago. Industrial foods have ruined our sense of reality to the extent that it’s no longer possible to tell cake from not-cake!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But milk? Sweet, pure, innocent, increasingly-hard-for-me-to-digest, milk? How did this simple staple rise to the ranks of manufactured mystery? Kendra Smith Howard\u2019s Pure and Modern Milk<\/a><\/em> tells the story of the fluid\u2019s defamiliarization: going from a quickly-spoiling animal excretion to a frighteningly impure substance that could harbor disease, to the brightly packaged uniformly white and shelf-stable substance we\u2019re familiar with. Through regulation of bovine bodies and farm and food processes, milk has become an increasingly industrial product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hindsight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milk today is both industrial and animal, both plain and complex. It froths into latte foam, freezes into ice cream, and hardens into whey protein fueled muscle. Milk comes in chocolate, strawberry, and banana, and inspires new creamy imitators made from every plant under the sun. We\u2019re told milk is essential to bones and teeth and yet is impossible to digest by most humans on Earth. No wonder we expect milk to do magical things! But don\u2019t pour yourself a glass and expect it to turn into a tasty dessert all on its own. You\u2019ll end up spoiling more than dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Glance A consistent source of entertainment for me is seeing what videos YouTube decides to slap on my homepage. I do my best to lock down my data online and preventing Google from keeping my search history or any of my cookies has completely bamboozled YouTube\u2019s already shitty algorithm. Alongside off-the-wall recommendations like \u201cDoctor… Continue reading Milk Hacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,28,31],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digestable","tag-environment","tag-food","tag-internet","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}