Coolant in oil/oil separator

I was emptying my oil separator today and when I unscrewed the catch can part to empty, it was the normal dark oil like the oil you see at every oil change but as I was dumping it out, I happened to see this milky/whitish gunk toward the bottom of the catch can.

My first thought is that there's a big problem somewhere and I'm getting coolant in the oil. Pulled the dipstick and didn't see anything odd about the oil from the bottom of the crankcase though. It was also odd to me that when I pulled the piece off to empty, it wasn't that chocolate milky looking oil that I've seen on other vehicles that had a cracked head and were getting coolant into the oil, it was very dark and normal up top, it wasn't until I got to the bottom of the can that I saw the whitish gunk??





and then after I had moved around a bit:

 

I had a catch can on my 4.0 Tacoma. And mine looked exactly the same at every 5k oil. I never thought anything of the white milky stuff in all honesty.

I did throughly cleaned it out after every change. That truck never burned a drop of oil and the oil usually came out pretty clean.

 

That makes me feel a little better. I'll check it a little more often than I have been and see what it looks like.

 

Last time I emptied mine about 2 weeks ago, I had the white milky substance. Oil dipstick looks fine. I think it’s just condensation due to the cold rainy weather.

 

This

 

Yep.

Mine looks the same during the winter and straight black in the summer. Nothing to worry about OP.

 

Thank you guys very much. I am not going to tell you how my heart sank when I first saw it thinking I had a major issue. Now I can get back to business at hand; hating the horrible job I did with the headlight PPF.