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GENERAL BOARDS => DAIRY FACTORY - Butter, Cheese, Ice Cream Making => Topic started by: Pooh on March 25, 2012, 10:16:40 AM
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Sorry if this has been covered many times before but I can't seem to find the answers from the forum that I need..................
I will need to store cow's milk for 2-3 days @ 120Litres per day= 350 litres max
I presume I can simply add the warm fresh milk to the chilled milk and then pasteurize the lot when I am ready to make the cheese?
In that case what are the bulk milk storage options that could be open to me? Maybe some of you have a brilliant but cheap way of storing your milk that I have never thought of ....................
Many thanks!
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You can pour milk into 40liter milk cans and put them into a cold water bath. Cheapest one I know of. The trick is to get that milk to circulate during the cooling down process...
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You can build\buy a simple heat exchanger snake (either gravity fed or a fed by a small flexible impeller pump which will cost you about 100$) and put it in ice cold water to quickly get the milk temp down for storage.
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you really don't want to pour warm milk into cold, so avoid that if you can.
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Tricky. That's a lot of milk. Consider bagging it. 2mm gussetted plastic bags with twist ties in a refrigerator. It's cheap and flexible. Good luck.
Paul
THE BIG FARM Creamery
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