Floating curd

[Chetty]

During my cheese make of the day I experienced some of the smaller curds floating.   

This is full fat Jersey milk going into a harvarti style cheese.  Didnt have any problems getting a set, fluctuated around 14 min.  Could this just be curds with higher fat content or do I have contamination? 

[Chetty]

I might also add it has holdbac lc, kazu and a little alp d for cultures.  No off smells and the milk is fresh this morning. 

[scasnerkay]

It looked to me like extra bits of fat floating. I have seen floating curds and they were quite pronounced. What did you end up doing?

[Chetty]

This was a 35 gallon batch so I skimmed off what was floating and carried on.  I compared the curds that were floating to the others and they were yellower so I think it was just curds with higher fat.  Ended up with 7 blocks from my kadova block molds. 

[scasnerkay]

Yay for your success!!