What To Do With Your Extra Breast Milk?
March 11, 2010 by Kailani
Filed under daily life, random thoughts
Well, if you’re Daniel Angerer & Lori Mason, you make cheese.
No matter what the city says, Lori Mason insists the breast milk she supplied her cheese-making husband is more wholesome than anything on the shelves at Whole Foods.
Her milk is 100 percent organic, free range, and foie gras-fed, she told The Post.
“I eat healthier than your average cow and I’m not pumped full of steroids!” Mason said.
When Mason’s husband, Daniel Angerer, blogged about making some of his wife’s excess breast milk into cheese, customers at his restaurant, Klee Brasserie on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, began demanding to have a taste.
But as The Post reported yesterday, even though expressed mother’s-milk cheese is not against health codes, city officials strongly advised Angerer to desist.
The cheese could pose a potential health hazard, the officials said.
Okay, this is wrong on so many levels.
First, how in the world does she pump so much breast milk? I pumped every 2 hours and there was no way I could produce that much extra milk. To me, my breast milk was like liquid gold and I wasn’t sharing it with anyone else besides Kaila.
Second, why would you even want to sample someone else’s breast milk . . . especially a total stranger’s?
Third, apparently Beast Milk Cheese doesn’t even taste good.
According to Liz Thorpe, a vice president of Murray’s Cheese shops in Manhattan, who reviewed Angerer’s cheese for The Post, they aren’t missing much. “It was slippery, slightly crunchy and tasted like pickles,” she said. “I give it a thumbs down.”
So what do you think? Would you try a sample of cheese made from breast milk?
Fore more information, check out the New York Post.
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The thought of eating breast milk cheese just freaks me out. And I don’t understand how she had so much extra milk either. My daughter never left any milk to be wasted.
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no. I wouldn’t care to test it. weird.
I saw where another woman got arrested for Assault for squirting milk on a police officer.
It has been many years since I did that. Not on a police officer. just remember squirting milk. Assault. Oh my.
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Ew, ew, ew, ew! No, I would never taste someone else’s breastmilk cheese! Gross!
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I’m not thinking so. That’s gross.
Some women produce much more milk than others. I could feed my son till he was full and pump an extra 6 ounces afterward. It was nuts. I, however, would rather donate it to a baby who wasn’t fortunate enough to breastfeed before I’d ever give it to someone to make cheese. Gross.
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Definitely not a stranger’s. I mean, if I ever decided to make cheese from my own milk, maybe (still incredibly doubtful.. but I suppose possible).. But a stranger? HECK NO!
Thta’s gross on like 10 different levels!
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Um, no. You can contract diseases, like HIV, from breast milk. Its a main reason its recommended not to buy or borrow used breast pumps.
Pump rules:
“The practice of re-using single user pumps may be dangerous because some disease organisms are know to be present in the breast milk of infected women. (Lawrence 94) Additionally, if a woman has used the breast pump during an episode of cracked bleeding nipples, blood contamination may have also occurred. Home sterilization methods are not always reliable to ensure the safe destruction of all pathogens especially in the rubber parts such as washers and diaphragms. Some pumps have internal diaphragms that cannot be removed and cleaned or replaced. In addition, even if you get a new collection kit (the part the touches your breast and collects the milk) it may be possible for air-born pathogens or droplets of milk that are not visible to the naked eye to get into a pump motor and cause contamination to the next user. Most single user pumps are “open system” pumps and do not have any protective barrier to prevent cross contamination to multiple users.”
Who is to say her nipples didn’t crack and bleed into that cheese? Eew!
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With my first baby I had a ton of milk. I was going out and so I pumped before I left. I filled two 8oz. bottles and wasn’t done. What can I say? I’m part cow
As for the cheese… that’s just… I mean… {{shudders}} ick.
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YUCK!!! This is so gross, I would never EVER consider eating someone’s breast milk cheese…even if I knew her! I can barely wrap my brain around someone willing to share “their” cheese with strangers, especially in a restaurant. {shivers} Thanks but “NO THANKS!”
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this is so gross, for one thing i agree how do you express enough milk for that , as a mother of 2 hungry boys there was none to spare , its just so gross
I posted on the very same topic a few days ago. I don’t think they’re offering any mass production there – he mentions in his blog that his wife happens to have a lot of extra milk frozen which will go to waste unless he used it for his culinary experiments.
Yes, it takes some time to get used to the idea. I’m vegan, so personally, the idea of thinking the milk of a bovine mother sounds even more gross to me… yet, so many people do it on a daily basis?
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I cannot even imagine breast milk cheese being offered at a restaurant! YUCK!!
I actually didn’t nurse my son until he was a month old; just pumped the entire time. I was pumping out 8oz @ a time for quite a while (felt like a old Guernsey cow there!) & I continued that way for quite awhile after my son was able to nurse. Unfourtantely I had to pump & dump because there wasn’t a breast milk bank in Europe like there is here in the US.
I *shudder* though @ the thought of breast milk cheese. Just plain old gross!
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Blech! I agree with you: wrong on so many levels! Breast milk is great for the baby it is meant for, not for other adults. Why would you even want other strangers to try your breast milk? And in the form of cheese?? Blech yuck ew!
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This is a tough one……first I do have to say, I had tons of leftover milk.I froze most of it to use for my baby,but I did have enough extra. Of course I never thought of cheese.And this was years ago…I mean years ago. Now, would I taste it? IF I knew the person & IF I knew what she used to pump & what she ate. hhhmmm……do we ever really know for sure what cows or goats eat? I don’t think so……..so I’m back to square one……I think I MIGHT try it.
No, I wouldn’t try it.
Wasn’t this a bit they did in the Borat movie?
And here’s yet another reason I could never be a food critic. I feel bad for the person who had to taste the crunchy, pickle-like, disease-possible nastiness.
.-= Lori Z.´s last blog ..Monkey’s Party, or Why My Family is More Talented than I =-.
That is disgusting!! With both of my sons, I had to pump. I was a very good supplier. I had alot!!! But I frooze it, and as my boys got bigger, the supply went down fast. I wouldn’t even try my own, let alone someone else’s. GROSS!!!!
I would not try someoneelse’s breastmilk cheese. Gnarly. BUT I know someone who made a cake using her own breastmilk, and said it was the best cake they ever had (served it to her hubby and kids). I would MAYBE do that . . . using my own of course.
Maybe it tasted pickle-y because of something weird in her diet . . .
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Like a few people on here, I would say it’s a tough call. My first child was “unfortunate” enough, to use another person’s word above (I know what she means, and that she means no harm, it just rubs wrong), to not get breast milk after the first month or so (long story). It seems far more odd to me, though, that we use milk from cows who, in the best of conditions, eat grass and are free-range and not chockful of steroids, hormones, antibiotics. The alternative–they stand in their own excrement all day long under cruel conditions, bred to be a superfreak in the milk production department. How is it natural that we think it’s cool to drink milk from an animal that is genetically not that closely related? If we wanted to get closer, how about chimpanzee milk? Orang milk, anyone? Cheers to a glass of gorilla milk?
If the person’s milk were tested (e.g., for AIDS, hepatitis), on the other hand, it would be likely to be much healthier than most cows’ milk. I would say it would be for the culinarily daring and would have to be vetted through a lot of health and safety standards channels first. For me, myself, the idea is weird to wrap my head around–drinking another woman’s breast milk. I, myself, again, am bummed in that I DON’T produce a huge amount of milk, but I have successfully breastfed my son for almost 4 months despite a C-section and losing so much blood after the operation that I developed anemia and thought I might die from it. (Not to toot my horn, but I have achieved my breastfeeding goals and I’m not about to let anyone guilt me about it if I should stop bf’ing at any point.)
I could rave on about this forever. In fact, I just might! : )
As I’ve posted at An Island Life before–my husband and I have become quite the food hippies in the last 5 years or so. I guess we’ve gotta, to make up for all the Oreo’s, Dorito’s, Twinkie’s, and Dr. Peppers from our younger years!
Fascinating discussion.
Have a great day, all!
Leigh
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This is just N.A.S.T.Y. I’m sorry but, there is a purpose for breast milk and it is NOT to make cheese. I saw a segment about this on Good Morning America and Hoda & Kathy Lee tricked a guy into tasting a woman’s (might have been this woman’s – I missed the very beginning) breast milk cheese. He almost gagged when he found out.
Some things in life are just WRONG… I’m sorry I would never even taste my own let alone someone elses. EEEWWWWW!!!
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This is a great way for your excess breastmilk to make a difference around the world for orphans, preterm babies, and babies diagnosed with HIV ( they can test negative later if given proper care early on)
http://breastmilkproject.org/index.php
IBMP Home – International Breast Milk Project