Can I make drinking milk with evaporated milk?

Question

Can I mix evaporated milk with water to make milk to drink? I am finding it hard to get to the store to get milk.

Answer 1

You can make something approximately 'milk-like' though it will taste more like that revolting UHT stuff they put in hotel rooms with the tea & coffee.
It will never go back to being 'fresh milk'.

Try it & see.

Answer 2

You can absolutely make drinking milk from evaporated milk! Evaporated milk is simply milk that has had around half of its water content removed (“evaporated “). The concentrated milk is then highly sterilized and canned. As someone said “it will never taste like fresh milk. . . Because it isn’t.

All that being said, it is a perfectly drinkable beverage as it is, fresh out the can. You can also dilute it with water in a 1:1.5 milk/water mixture if you want something a little less viscous. And yes, you can also spice it up a bit with a splash of cream or half and half for taste (literally a splash tho. You don’t want to use it in place of water. Keep in mind, heavy whipping cream is about 40% fat, and whole milk has only about 3.5% fat. . . Fat isn’t something removed from evaporated milk, so adding in more is risky business.)

I live in a rural fishing village in winter and live on the water working on commercial fishing boats in the summer. We use evaporated milk all the time in place of what you’d buy out of the cooler at the grocery store. When I’m in town, the stores close early and it can be hard to make it in time. . . Evaporated milk it is.

may not be to your taste, but it won’t hurt you or cause any adverse reactions. lol.

Answer 3

Here's my recipe:

1. Take one cup of evaporated milk
2. Add one cup water
3. Mix thoroughly
4. Pour down the drain

Seriously, evaporated milk will never taste like fresh milk, but there's a dietary need you can use it but will have to get used to the taste. A 1:1 ratio is probably a good starting place. If you have any cream or half-and-half you can add in that might help.

You might try almond milk instead which is easy to make at home and can have a rich, creamy flavor (in my opinion homemade almond milk is a million times better than any store-bought. Not 900K times; one million). The best way to make this is in a blender like a Vitamix. All you need is a cup or so of almonds (presoak overnight) a pinch of salt, and 3-4 cups of water. Blend for a few minutes at high speed. I sometimes add an emulsifier to this and blend an additional minute. Heating also helps emulsify (a Vitamix will heat by itself if in for long enough). The hard part is squeezing through a nut bag. Also messy. Another method is using a Nutramilk which is faster and easier and you don't have to soak the almonds (and shouldn't) and don't have to use a nut bag. There's also much less waste of the nuts.

If you don't have a Vitamix or Nutramilk you can use any kind of high-speed blender or food processor and will probably get decent results.

Hope this helps.