Can I drink it? Nut milks in cold-ish car overnight
April 21, 2019 5:12 AM Subscribe
Forgot to bring in my cashew milk and almond milk. According to "Alexa," the temperature outside last night varied between 35 and 43 degrees. Neither carton was opened; they were fresh from the store. Safe or not?
35 to 43 is the same temp as the fridge. So leaving stuff in the car overnight in cold temps is fine. I've intentionally left fridge goods in a trunk at these temps, just because I'm lazy.
posted by Kalmya at 5:25 AM on April 21, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by Kalmya at 5:25 AM on April 21, 2019 [6 favorites]
that's fridge temp; they'd have been fine even if they were opened. Drink.
posted by fingersandtoes at 5:48 AM on April 21, 2019
posted by fingersandtoes at 5:48 AM on April 21, 2019
Response by poster: Yay, awesome! Thanks folks.
posted by Beethoven's Sith at 6:01 AM on April 21, 2019
posted by Beethoven's Sith at 6:01 AM on April 21, 2019
In the UK these kinds of milk are generally sold unrefrigerated anyway - it's wise to fridge them once you open them but before that they're fine to hang out at room temperature for several months. You can buy a version (of exactly the same product in a slightly different container) in the cold section, but I suspect this comes from consumers having cultural expectations around milk being cold by default, rather than because the product needs to be kept chilled.
posted by terretu at 9:06 AM on April 21, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by terretu at 9:06 AM on April 21, 2019 [2 favorites]
UK person here and I never keep mine in the fridge. I find it ruins the taste. To confirm what the poster above me said, supermarkets here usually keep them on the shelf and not in the fridge.
posted by ihaveyourfoot at 10:02 AM on April 21, 2019
posted by ihaveyourfoot at 10:02 AM on April 21, 2019
Terretu has it right. Keeping it the refrigerated section of the grocery store is all about competing with dairy milk. Nutmilks usually only have to be refrigerated after opening.
(I recall a minor dust-up when the move from the shelf to the fridges happened, because environmentalists were upset about the waste of energy. You know, if the store had to buy or run more refrigerators for the nutmilks which don’t need it.)
posted by greermahoney at 10:39 AM on April 21, 2019
(I recall a minor dust-up when the move from the shelf to the fridges happened, because environmentalists were upset about the waste of energy. You know, if the store had to buy or run more refrigerators for the nutmilks which don’t need it.)
posted by greermahoney at 10:39 AM on April 21, 2019
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