Wanted: misc. stuff (Kitchen Equipment)

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I am looking for the following items. Hopefully someone has an extra or doesn't need theirs anymore.

Milk seperator, pasteurizer (2 gal or bigger), cheese press, bosch mixer (or extra heavy duty kitchenaid). Thanks Amy

-- amy richards (amysgarden2@eathlink.net), June 29, 2001

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Try www.ebay.com. It is amazing the things you can find on it. For a separator, search under cream separator.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), June 29, 2001.

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Yikes- I misspelled my email address! Correct one posted on this one. Thanks Ken - I have been looking but things can go really high. The cheese press is going for about $150. I am watching a seperater and a pasteurizer but the prices are climbing fast.

Amy

-- Amy Richards (amysgarden2@earthlink.net), June 29, 2001.


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My husband made a cheese press for me out of a large coffee can, 4 dowel rods and 2 flat pieces of wood. Worked great.

I used a plastic bag with water and put that on top of the cheese, put the flat piece of wood on and sometimes a brick or two for the weight.

He made a base out of one of the flat pieces of wood. Drilled 4 holes for the dowels, (long enough to be above the coffee can). The coffee can was in between. Cheap.

There are also many cheesemaking sites they may have what you are looking for.

-- Cordy (ckaylegian@aol.com), June 29, 2001.


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Here are plans for a simple cheese press

Chee se Press

Or try  New England Cheesemaking Supply

 Hard Cheese Press $4.95 for plans

As for a cream seperator, I've been toying with the idea of "growing my own" gravity-powered seperator using a big glass jar or bottle with some kind of stopcock assembly - pour in the whole milk, turn it upside down and set it in a stand, let it set for a couple hours or whatever it takes (in the fridge I guess), and then open up the stopcock and pour off the milk.

I ask myself, just how "skim" do I want my milk (not all that skim) and just how much cream do I really need (not all that much).  The electric seperators are priced way beyond my range even if I could find a working used one, and the hand cranked ones can be difficult to operate and a pain to clean and maintain.  Plus they have high resale value as "antiques" so even used ones can be costly (it amazes me that old butterchurns with rust spots and broken dashers go for nearly what a new one costs).

Lots of folks just skim the cream off the top, too.  Do you get it all that way?  No, but do you really NEED every last drop?  If you've got a cow, most folks have more cream and milk than they know what to do with anyway.  Just something to think about before you spend the money - you can always buy one later.

Cream seperator, I can't help with, I likes 'em raw (dairy products that is)

The mixer you might be able to pick up at a garage sale, lots of times people buy high priced kitchen items and then never use them because they don't have the time (she says trying not to think of the juicer and the pasta machine still in storage in their unopened boxes)
 

-- Sojourner (notime4@summer.spam), June 29, 2001.


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Pasteuriser is totally unnecessary. Raw milk is far better for you than pasteurised. Those enzymes that God made to help in the digestion of natures most perfect food, are necessary. (Such as Lactase, which digests Lactose.) But they are inactivated by pasteurisation. The minerals present in raw milk are in a biologically available form, whereas once that milk has been pasteurised, the minerals have become precipitated, and very difficult to absorb. The proteins in raw milk are gentle and natural, easy to be digested, whereas pasteurisation denatures those proteins, and makes milk hard to digest.

The deseases people are afraid of contracting via raw milk actually are very rare, and can be avoided by cleanliness at all times, and yearly vet checkups of the cow. I highly recommend doing some research on the net about Dr. Weston Price and Francis Pottinger. Both of them did some astounding solid scientific research concerning raw milk.

-- daffodyllady (daffodyllady@yahoo.com), June 29, 2001.



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Hi,

I have a link too for you about cheese presses. i bookmarked it on the recipie on the site under blue cheese. i LOVE blue cheese, my weakness. Anyways.... there is a graphic picture section on how to not only make a cheese press but make cheese. Heres the link. http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/Blue_Cheese/Blue_Cheese.ht m As for a pasturizer... i just purchased a Wrek canner from Khiram farm, Linda Campbell sells them. Its great, hand made in germany, stainless stell. i got it to use as a pasturizer and for canning too. it also has a spout on the bottom to drain and you can even make iced tea or coffee in it. i haven't used it much. I plan on canning with it. What makes it so nice is you have everything in one unit, you plug it in, set the temp and timer and thats it. You can also stack canning jars too. I plan on canning with it some here soon. i paid 250.00 for it and I believe it is the best investment i made next to my mirro pressure canner. You can find it on this website. i bookmarked the auctions section as i have donated items for the auctions. Maybe there might be a cream seperator here too.

http://cometothefarm.com/cometothefarmcgi/auction.cgi? action=subcat&category=catp_main

Hope this helps. Oh... try going to the yahoogroups and join the GoatMarket list... you can psot anytime and folks may have what you need. Good luck.

Bernice

Bernice

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), June 29, 2001.


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There is a photo of a homemade cheese press in Countryside 83/3:63 (May/June 1999), and it says in the blurb by the photo that more details are available in 78/3:62. It's made with a section of pvs pipe instead of coffee cans, and recommends a threaded metal rod connected to a hardwood disc as a follower. It looks like something even I could figure out (and that's saying something!!!)

-- Sheryl in ME (radams@sacoriver.net), June 29, 2001.

I have an old Montgomery Ward cream seperator that I am looking to get rid of. If your interested please e-mail me.

-- Amy E. (malibu99@alltel.net), October 22, 2001.

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