Creative Alternative For Curd Mill?

[amiriliano]

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!

[awakephd]

A knife?

Sorry, couldn't resist ...

[amiriliano]

Funny awake. Very funny!

Mill. Not cut.

[Sailor Con Queso]

French fry cutter works great on small batches.

[awakephd]

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.)

[amiriliano]

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!

[H-K-J]

Here's one I thought would be cool to have.

[amiriliano]

Nice but key word in my OP was CHEEEEAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!! 

[Duntov]

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.

[amiriliano]

30 gallon milk batches. Translates to curd for 4 wheels approximately 6lb each.