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GENERAL BOARDS => DAIRY FACTORY - Butter, Cheese, Ice Cream Making => : MiaBella Farm March 12, 2010, 02:57:53 PM
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Ok, here it is...all done!
http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d140/nitrors4/Cheese%20Room/?start=0 (http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d140/nitrors4/Cheese%20Room/?start=0)
I made my first batch of cheese last weekend and will make some more tomorrow...I am so excited!
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Wow! Good for you.
Pam
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I'm envious. How are you heating your milk?
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I'm envious.
Ditto
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Pretty cool. But we want more information.
What are you making?
How much are you making?
Do you have your own herd of (?) or are you getting your milk from...?
Good luck with it. Looks great
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I'm envious. How are you heating your milk?
On a stove...it is not in the pictures...but I have one.
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Pretty cool. But we want more information.
What are you making?
How much are you making?
Do you have your own herd of (?) or are you getting your milk from...?
Good luck with it. Looks great
I am making aged cheese...Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack, Havarti...ect...
So far I have only made one 2 gallon batch, but am making a bigger batch this weekend.
I have my own herd of goats so I am making my cheese from goat milk.
I also have a "day job" so making cheese for now will be a weekend adventure.
Thanks!
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Very nice!!
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Looks great, Troy! How big is the building?
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That's an AWFULLY big building for just a 2 gallon batch. ;)
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Looks great, Troy! How big is the building?
Linuxboy (this is Michelle, Troy is not on this forum) ;D:
The building is 16 x 28
Kitchen area is roughly 15 x 15 - that huge double door fridge in the photos is 49 cu ft.
Cave is roughtly 9 x 11
There is also a restroom (county requirement) that is about 5 x 6 - not accessible from inside the kitchen - separate entrance.
We are also in the process of purchasing a 22 gallon vat.
Sailor:
I started small with the 2 gallon batch...but made several 4 gallon batches last weekend and plan on making 16 gallons or more of cheese over the next 4 days (have some time off from the day job) :)
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I was just teasing Michelle. :-)
I am doing a commercial kitchen right now. Where did you get your stainless shelves and fridge? Where are you getting the 22 gallon vat?
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Oh, I know ;)
Shelves and fridge came from Craigs list.
The fridge is less than a year old...2 brothers started a burger biz, that did not work out, so it had been in storage for a bit.
Waiting to hear back from Frank Kipe on the vat.
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It took us about 6 months to build this ourselves. The stainless steel tables were purchased online, the sink at auction and everything else was pretty much craigs list. Got a smoking deal on that fridge! Eventually we will move to a bulk tank, but it will work for now.
If all goes well this weekend we should have another 21 pounds of cheese in the cave.
We have our own herd of Nubian & Lamancha dairy goats as well as being a Grade A dairy....oh and don't forget the manufactured food license. Man the government gets way too much of my money. LOL
Now we will spend the next few months working on refining our cheese making and hopefully exchanging information with all you great folks.
If anyone has questions about the construction of this facility please let me know. So far I have not run into any real issue except the door to my cave. It will need to be replaced eventually with one from a walk in cooler. It just does not have enough insulation to get the job done. Really is a small issue.
If all goes well we will have a 22 gallon cheese vat / pasteurizer coming to us in a month or two. I really wanted to pick up a used unit, but haven't had any luck finding one. Frank is a nice guy, so as soon as I hear back from him I think I will be moving forward with his unit. Until then if anyone knows of a vat for sale let me know.
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Very nice! Congrats looks like you got it all going on!
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very very nice i have just felt my face go green lol
could you tell me at what cost all of this cost you? i am looking to start my own business up and i am wondering what the start up cost is to do some thing like you have done, you can pm me if you want to keep the cost privet i would be very happy if you could tell me though
thank you
dave
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Is this what is required to sell cheese to the public, or is this for you personal consumption?
I would really like to find out what it takes here in Wyoming to do that? If I bought pasteurized milk and rented a commercial kitchen from a local restaurant, would that be sufficient?
I have looked and looked and looked at what it take to get a license and I can't seem to find any information!?!? It's driving me crazy!
Anyways if you are selling to the public, I would be incredibly intrigued to hear about the process!
Grats on the kitchen it is gorgeous, and I am very jealous.
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Dr. Chedder........We do all the work ourselves and build out of pocket so I may not have done the best job tracking the actual cash spent on this, but I would say the building cost about 20k and then add another 15k for equipment. This does not include the barn or livestock or many other things that go into this business. Total I would say I am over 100k. Although I would prefer not to think about it. :P Thank god for a good day job!
Minamyna......I worked with our state and county health department to figure everything out. Texas has a website and after lots of digging I found the rules for a dairy online. That is what I used to come up with everything. Lots and lots of research!
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Hi Guys
Hi from Canada , Quebec, i try many time to look for a used vat with a large capacity, but price are just too crazy, but one day, one of my dealer who have a metal soldering told me (with the plan i give him) that he can build me that the vat is a 36x36x48 inches , double wall including the butterfly valve, and of course meet the standard for the soldering joint regarding food processing and stainsless requirement too for food, and all this for less then 3k so now i finialy order mine its will be around a 500 liter vat with the v shape inside, so just go ask a weldering shop, of coiurse my dealer dont know what its was for before jsut told them its a kind of bath hehehe coz pretty sure if he know the real price of vat cheese that will not be that price, but now he know and said is ok with the 3k he make me the price
So maybe its a good idea foru too to lookn for those kind of little soldering metal shop, mine do snowplaw hehehe
Maybe this can help u.. now very excited to recive mine and not paying 10k and for a cheese vat
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Awesome--we all await your experience!