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amiriliano

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Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« on: July 18, 2016, 07:49:22 PM »
Anyone have a cheap, creative alternative for a curd mill for milled hard cheeses?

Nothing that would compress the curd too much and would be manually operated.

Thanks all!
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Re: Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2016, 08:27:07 PM »
A knife? :)

Sorry, couldn't resist ...
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Re: Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2016, 12:41:20 AM »
Funny awake. Very funny!

Mill. Not cut.
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Sailor Con Queso

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Re: Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2016, 01:58:19 PM »
French fry cutter works great on small batches.
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Re: Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2016, 02:09:09 PM »
In all seriousness, how does a mechanical cheese mill work? I.e., does it use some sort of blades to cut the curd, or does it somehow crumble/tear the curd? (I would think the former would be easier to design than the latter, but never have seen a cheese mill other than in a grainy video.)
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amiriliano

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Re: Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2016, 02:17:00 PM »
Never seen one in person, but from what I've seen online, looks like maybe metal fingers perpendicular to to parallel rotating axles that trap and break up curd between them?

Sailor: thanks for the idea, I'll look into it!
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Re: Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2016, 03:41:05 PM »
Here's one I thought would be cool to have.
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amiriliano

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Re: Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2016, 04:25:15 PM »
Nice but key word in my OP was CHEEEEAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!  ;)
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Re: Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2016, 07:16:03 PM »
Just how big a batch do you want to do?  I have used both a hand type cheese cuber and a round bladed pizza cutter.  The pizza cutter is quite fast.
« Last Edit: July 19, 2016, 07:31:02 PM by Duntov »
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amiriliano

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Re: Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2016, 10:50:35 PM »
30 gallon milk batches. Translates to curd for 4 wheels approximately 6lb each.
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