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Though infrequently, when boiling milk, it gets burnt if you forget about the milk on stove. I usually boil 2-3L of milk in one big pan on stove/induction. When it gets burnt, it develops a peculiar smell and taste and in our house nobody can bear it. Even if I make curd or cottage cheese from that milk, they all have that burnt flavour. Hence I have to throw that whole quantity of milk.

Hence, is there anyway of removing that bad burnt flavour or else, utilising that flavoured milk into something which can be consumed by us?

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  • You can turn burnt milk into something edible, you just need to wait a year : throw it into a compost bin. ;) – Eric Duminil 9 mins ago
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I'm sorry, but there are no good news here.

First, you cannot remove the flavor. Whatever you do, the flavor stays there. (This question goes into more detail about why you can't remove flavors).

Second, there are no culinary uses for it. Of course you can do stuff with it - turn it into yogurt, cheese, etc. But see point one: the flavor will still be there. So you will hate whatever you make out of it for the same reason you hated the milk in the first place.

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  • There are some smoked or very smelly cheeses, wouldn’t it work for those? – Michael 2 hours ago
  • @Michael the smell won't disappear. There might be people whose perception is so distracted by the cheese smell that the burnt-milk-smell becomes less salient, but it is impossible to predict for whom this effect will be sufficiently large to start enjoying the cheese - and we are biased towards paying a lot of attention to unpleasant smells, so 1) it is likely that for most people, the smell of burnt will come through, and 2) the effect of "cheese smell covers burnt smell" is most likely to occur for those who hate smelly cheese. It doesn't stop you from trying, if you feel like it. – rumtscho♦ 2 hours ago

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