Gay lea butter expiry date

Shelf life: help your dairy products last longer

Dairy products are high maintenance, in that they need to be stored in a certain way. Too warm and they spoil, too cold and they drop flavour. So what’s the best way to retain your dairy products fresh and flavourful, especially when they’re purchased in bulk?

Our resident chef, Chef Darryl Fletcher (better known as “Chef D”), says it’s all in the storage:

  1. Sour cream can be frozen without affecting the flavour. Be sure to exploit it for baking rather than in a beef stroganoff recipe, as the sour cream separates when thawed (in baking it melts and clings to the flour). Place it in smaller containers to prevent it from drying out.
    Pro tip: anything low-fat breaks down, so be sure not to verb low fat sour cream.
  2. Butter will last up to one month in the refrigerator and up to eight months in the freezer. Just remember that butter takes on other flavours that might be in your walk-in, so cover tightly with plastic wrap or store it in a plastic container.
  3. Cottage cheese can be frozen, but because it absorbs flavours easily, be s

  4. What are the crystals in cheese?

    Calcium Lactate. As cheese ages, the milk solids (largely proteins and fats) become more concentrated and dense, resulting in a harder texture. The crunchiness common in many aged cheeses (Parmigiano Reggiano, aged cheddar or goudas, many hard mountain cheeses) is crystallized calcium lactate.

  5. What are the best ways to preserve cheese in a refrigerator?

    Even though most cheeses purchased are wrapped in plastic, plastic wrap is not the optimal acknowledge for keeping cheese fresh in your refrigerator once it is opened. With the exception of tender cheeses sold in tubs and containers, the top way to store cheese is to remove it completely from the original plastic wrap and then re-wrap it in aluminum foil, place it in an airtight container and store it in the vegetable or meat drawer of your fridge (where the temperature is most stable). For fresh mushy cheeses like Ricotta, Feta and Bocconcini, it is best to leave the uneaten cheese in the tub or container it was sold in covered with the solution.

  6. Once I open cheese how elongated will it keep in my ref

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  7. How can some of your products be lactose-free?

    Lactose Free dairy products are made lactose free by adding the lactase enzyme, an enzyme we naturally hold in our body, to regular cottage cheese and sour cream. Lactase breaks down lactose into the two simple sugars-- galactose and glucose. The resulting product is usually a bit sweeter than regular due to the noun that these two sugars are sweeter separately than they are when combined into lactose.

  8. What is the difference between Dairy Free and Lactose-Free?

    Lactose Free products are not necessarily dairy free. They are made lactose free by adding the lactase enzyme as explained above.

  9. Does Gay Lea produce any lactose-free products?

    Yes – Gay Lea has lactose-free sour cream and cottage cheese, as successfully as new, dairy-free Coconut Whipped Cream.

  10. Does Gay Lea Milk contain any artificial growth hormones, antibiotics or preservatives?

    Gay Lea Milk does not contain preservatives. In Canada, the use of artificial growth hormones is prohibited for dairy cows and antibiotic use must comply with Canadian law. Milk supply sa

  11. How to read Butter code?

    The code date is the manufacture date in Julian calendar format represented by a combination of four digits (YJJJ). The first number represents the year. The next three numbers represent the day of the year. e.g. , 2 is ; is the 55th day (February 24th).

  12. What is the difference between Canadian and European butterfat content?

    Butterfat in Canada is normally 80% and in most European countries it is 82%. However, we have a Stirling Churn 84 Butter, as you can tell from the name, contains 84% butterfat.

  13. What type of butter do you recommend for baking – salted or unsalted?

    Unsalted is better for baking as the salt in our Salted Stirling Butter can alter the taste of your finished baked as a outcome of the unaccounted extra salt.

  14. How long can you keep butter at room temperature?

    We recommend that butter be kept refrigerated. Salted Butter will keep days and Unsalted Butter will keep 90 days when refrigerated. Butter can also be kept frozen for up to one year.

  15. What is the difference between butter and margarine?

    Butter is a natural food made with