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Title: A week with cows
Post by: BigCheese on April 12, 2011, 04:57:16 AM
Not sure if this is the best location for this, but we have a ton of milk and I just wanted to show what a week brought:
From upper left to right: approx. 15-20lbs raw butter; Mozzarella curds (ripening overnight to be stretched in the AM); 4 gallons worth of fromage blanc(whats left of it); remaining yogurt; 8.5lbs Asiago; 10.5 lbs pepper jack; 6.5lbs parmesan; 6lbs asiago in brine. Not pictured: 3 gallons of buttermilk and many more gallons of milk...

Title: Re: A week with cows
Post by: susanky on April 12, 2011, 10:35:46 AM
What a haul!  Looks fantastic.  That's alot of butter!  How do you churn it?  I mean how much can you do at one time?  I'm guessing you have a way better system than I do.  Yum! Yum!
Susan

Title: Re: A week with cows
Post by: ArnaudForestier on April 12, 2011, 12:18:37 PM
Motherlode, Nitai, congrats!
Title: Re: A week with cows
Post by: MrsKK on April 13, 2011, 03:00:38 AM
How many cows?  Looks like you live in your barn and kitchen - when do you take a break to sleep!
Title: Re: A week with cows
Post by: BigCheese on April 13, 2011, 03:30:08 AM
3 cows. approx 60 gallons per week go to our cowshare. the remainder stays here. It's been a long week or so. And I was busy before the milk influx began...
Title: Re: A week with cows
Post by: MrsKK on April 13, 2011, 01:05:25 PM
So how many gallons do you process at home?
Title: Re: A week with cows
Post by: BigCheese on April 13, 2011, 04:49:42 PM
Well there was big increas recently. Last week it must have been right around 35 gallons. I can do 10-11 gallon batches at most.