Can human breast milk be used to make cheese?

@johnpowell, fluthering while drunk? What an odd question.

Breast milk is very watery compared to other forms of milk. The volume of milk a woman could express would not be conducive to cheese-making. I would imagine you could make cottage cheese out of it; when babies spit up breast milk it sometimes has the consistency of cheese curds. Breast milk is often compared to goat’s milk in terms of consistency.

Here are recipes using breast milk. I knew someone who made fudge out of her stash of frozen breast milk when her freezer went out.

This is actually a legit question. I’m curious if you can turn breast milk into cheese. I have heard differing accounts.

And a healthy FUCK YOU to people saying I am drunk. I’m looking at you Zen…

I love you with all my heart, Ryan.

I know.. I just wanted to give you shit. I love with hate.

I’m still curious. Has anyone made cheese with breast milk? Or do you know where I could get some so I could try.

Removed by the AMA.

@johnpowell You are not alone in your curiosity. This question intrigued me, so I googled “cheese from breastmilk” and found this blog post.

What the author of the blog post learned is that you can not make cheese from breast milk because the protein content is too low and breast milk does not curdle. This is good news for babies, because it means they can digest it (unlike straight cow’s milk) but bad news for cheese makers across the world.

However, if you manage to find a lactating woman what an interesting Craig’s List ad that would make maybe she can sell you some of her milk so you can try the recipes in that fascinating link @PandoraBoxx found. It almost makes me wish I was still nursing. I’d love to make one of those recipes and tell people when they were halfway through eating that it contained breast milk. :)

A foodie friend of mine who recently had a baby wondered the same thing, but ended up deciding that yogurt was an easier choice.

“and tell people when they were halfway through eating that it contained breast milk.”
Mmmm breasts mike cheese. A great snack after oral sex.

Brought to you by the International Lactation Consultant Association.

I say that about cremation. When I die I want to be cremated. Have my ashes put in a meatloaf.
This way my final attitude to everyone would be. Eat me!

@johnpowell- Are you really Sacha Baron Cohen?

Why not? Mass production was raise some interesting challenges.

I don’t see why not. It’s delicious milk.

It would sure taste better than baby formula cheese. Bleah!

There’s The Human Milk Banking that has chapters around the country. Breast milk is preferred for certain at-risk infants. When I quit breast feeding both of mine, I had at least 100 8-oz bags of frozen breast milk in the freezer. I was working full-time at that time, too, and expressing milk.

It’d be a bit of a pain to test all your cheese for communicable diseases.
“No thank you, I’ll pay extra for the non Hep-C cheese please”.

I didn’t say nothing.

It can…yes…someone attempted this, but it was gross and tasted like sour cheese.

I assume that you can since I make a cheese-like substance from under my man boobs.

@Zen_Again :: I was talking to Grisaille. We call him Zen in the chatroom.

OIC – sorry.

Why? Are we getting out of cows?

@AstroChuck thanx, I just threw up a little in my mouth!

When going to @AstroChuck ‘s house for dinner. Enjoy the wine, avoid the cheese.

Yes, you need fermentative lactic acid bacteria and it should work. But adult lactose tolerance is a relatively recent genetic defect, therefore as we grow older our instincts might tell us to stay away from human milk when we smell it. Maybe these instincts are not triggered by smelling milk from cows and goats.

Yes