Well, getting back on topic, while not a bodily function of mine, I've always been fascinated with lactation, and if one could gather enough human mother's milk to make a nice soft cheese. Any insights?
Well, getting back on topic, while not a bodily function of mine, I've always been fascinated with lactation, and if one could gather enough human mother's milk to make a nice soft cheese. Any insights?
Imagine that? Human cheese! I suppose that, if you employed about five women to give you their milk over a period of time, you'd be able to make it... what a speciality that would be!
Sure, why not? We really weren't born to drink cow's milk, but we do, and eat a lot of cow cheese. I say it's high time we lobby to make human cheese.
"A fair wage for our milk sourcers would be something like US$20 per hour.
Assuming a morning milking and an evening milking, this leads to a cost of
about $40 per woman-day. One lactating woman can produce, on average, 2-3
pounds of milk per day. It takes about 10 pounds of milk to make 1 pound
of cheese. So we would require around 4 woman-days of milk to produce 1
pound of cheese, at a cost of about $160. And this is only one of the
costs involved in producing the cheese: to pay other expenses (shipping
costs, salaries for other employees, etc.) we'd need to sell the cheese
for nearly $200 per pound, which would greatly reduce its target audience.
To get near a practical price (~$25 per pound) we'd have to pay our
sourcers only $5 per day, far less than the value of their labor."
Well, getting back on topic, while not a bodily function of mine, I've always been fascinated with lactation, and if one could gather enough human mother's milk to make a nice soft cheese. Any insights?
How did I miss this thread????
Quote:Well, getting back on topic, while not a bodily function of mine, I've always been fascinated with lactation, and if one could gather enough human mother's milk to make a nice soft cheese. Any insights?
A couple of years ago I worked in a hotel. We had a couple check in with a wee babe. She was breastfeeding and asked us to store her breast milk in one of our kitchen fridges. (The rooms mini-bar fridge was fully stocked - no room for extras)
As fate would have it, another guest checked in and asked for a jug of milk, well you guessed it...
The roomservice guy delivered the babes dinner. The guest came down later that evening and complemented on the wonderful milk we serve in Canada. He asked if he could have the name of our supplier.
