Milk Strainers

[misfitmorgan]

I am honestly wondering how you all are getting milk thru a coffee filter....at any kind of speed. I have tried coffee filters and it is mind numbingly slow for me...i just cant take it

Maybe my lack of patience and my grandma having to much to do to watch milk strain makes me so fond of the flour sack towels. We strain 2 gallons of milk in about a minute...i can not go back to anything slower then that lmao.

On a side note....ever tried to filer oil with a coffee filter...

takes forever

 

[Southern by choice]

Coffee filters will not adequately get the junk out. If you run milk through a coffee filter and then use a real milk filter you will still see stuff on the filter.

We tried it long ago and used double coffee filters and seriously... yuck.

Milk filters are designed for straining milk.

The cloth could be good by no way do I want more laundry.

 

[babsbag]

Ditto on the laundry plus I wash dog beds and goat milking towels in the laundry and not really sure how much I trust my washing machine. That is one the things I still have to work on for the dairy...how to wash the bags you hang the cheese in to drain.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Ditto on the laundry plus I wash dog beds and goat milking towels in the laundry and not really sure how much I trust my washing machine. That is one the things I still have to work on for the dairy...how to wash the bags you hang the cheese in to drain.

Its only the two of us so we dont make much laundry so a small load of whites that i have run thru every couple days isnt to bad. i like laundry better then dishes i want as few of those as possible!! i hate dishes lol.

We have an old washer in our garage i wash all the animal stuff with and in the house i only wash non-animal aka indoor nice clothes. You may need to use a laundry service Babs depending on your state laws and cottage laws im not exactly sure your plans lol.

 

[babsbag]

The washing of the bags has never been mentioned by the inspector so far. I am guessing that it is in the Health and Safety code somewhere and not in the Food and Ag code. I am months away from the dairy being licensed and I am starting with bottling fluid milk so even longer for cheese but it is something I have to eventually address.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Well at least you are doing it....we dream of it but michigan is so strict with milk laws i dont think we could ever do it on a large scale. Such as you have to have a separate parlor to milk in, and the giant holding/chill tanks and basically it would cost us roughly $200,000 to get it started and inspected by the state..plus we currently dont have enough doe(punny) lol. Course we also want to do usda licensed artisian butcher but...just the licensing is $75,000 and again needs a completely separate building, also septic/well...eggs are similar. And they still are 98% likely to refuse since they dont want any more "slaughter" houses in the top half of lower michigan.

 

[babsbag]

California has been tough but we are building on trailers and only milking 20-30 goats. My bulk tank is 40 gallons and my pasteurizer is 30 so very small scale. All said and done I will into this for less than 60,000.00 I got a loan from the USDA for part of it and the rest has been pay as we go.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Michigan requires permanent buildings, and you have to have set milker cleaning procedures, with certain cleaners, suppose to clean the parlor regularly with disinfectant, have the chill tank tested yearly to make sure milk is proper temp, have a yearly tb test, hand milking not allowed, etc..etc...its a long list. Now mind you most of that any family diary farms dont have to comply with because they are grandfathered in....new farms have too so it makes it really hard to start...not to mention finding a company that will buy the goats milk and truck it to their plant. We could do it locally but people here dont have much interest we tried doing goat milk shares for 2 yrs it was $50 to buy the share for the year and $5/Gallon or $3/ 1/2 gallon....not a single taker even at those stupid cheap prices. People down state do it but costs way more generally share price is $250/yr per share and milk is $7/Quart.

The market here is odd even for eggs if i raise my price per dozen to more then $2.50 no one wants to buy them. Even with non-gmo, organic, free range, soy free eggs at the store being $5.60/dozen and you dont get all those things. People will also go to the store and buy those little cans of goat milk for $4 each. For some reason here "farm" means things should be super cheap.

Will have to look into the loan but not until we buy the farm....literally lol

Sorry OP we got off track.....so Milk Strainers.

 

[babsbag]

California isn't thrilled about the use of trailers but he code doesn't say I can't... therefor I can.

 

[Latestarter]

This may sound like a silly request, but could you share a picture of a flour sack towel? I buy flour in paper, 5 or 10 pound bags and have no idea what it is you're describing... You say you buy the cloth and make them yourself? I've never seen anything by that name in a store, so wouldn't have the faintest idea of what to buy or even look for Never mind what store to even start looking at... wally world? doubt it.

I'm nowhere near the point of needing them yet, and definitely feel for those who don 't want any additional laundry, but it just sounds more economical than paper filters... Thanks in advance.