Hasta La Gadget!

According to UK milk-merchant Cravendale, over 300,000 tonnes (364,000 tons) of milk are tossed out every year because people cannot tell whether it is sour or not. A new milk jug tests the white stuff for you and gives a readout on its LCD display: “fresh” or “sour”.

The jug is simple. As milk sours, it becomes more acidic. A sensor in the bottom of the jug detects the drop in pH and sounds the alarm. This gives people a reliable measure of the milk’s freshness, and will supposedly stop so much milk being poured down the sink every year. The blog post, from Cravendale’s site, is thinly veiled publicity, but offers some interesting tidbits about milk. For instance, Cravendale’s own brand is filtered as well as pasteurized for a truly mind-boggling 21 days of (unopened) freshness.

Then again, milk is scary stuff anyway. If you’re happy to drink the fatty white liquid secreted by lactating mammals, then you’ll probably be happy to suck down anything. Seriously, if God had meant us to drink milk, he wouldn’t have invented cheese. For those still stuck at the cow’s udder, though, this resource-saving jug is just the thing.

Revealed: A Magic Milk Jug [Cravendale via Oh Gizmo!]