milk processing

[upnortheast]

We are not Organic.
One of our coffee shop customers tried every milk he could find in the North East through his coffee machine. Ours was best, followed by Cravendale. All the others were way behind.
2 things seem to effect foaming, freshness and protein. Whole, Semi skimmed and Skim will all foam.
Google brings up lots of technical explainations

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Thanks for advice @upnortheast

Do you use glass or plastic or both ?
Edit, sorry I've just looked at your website & got the answer

Our customers we've just taken on favour glass & our supplier & previous round operator have both said non homogenised will stick to plastic & customers won't like it - it's never been a problem with raw milk in a plastic judge in our fridge

With regard to frothy milk I've noticed it's always frothier in the tank after spring turn out

 

[upnortheast]

Don`t agree about non homogenised and plastic.

The pain with glass is washing them on return, also the shop market is almost all plastic,

 

[Yatesbros1]

We do non homogenised in plastic with 8 days date on and nobody's ever commented on milk sticking to cartons.

 

[Create-A-Cabin]

We are planning to start pasteurising & bottling milk
We have a suitable building next to our tank room.
What would be a suitable floor material ? Is concrete acceptable or would we need tiles or a rubberised type floor. Also we have been advised to use food grade composite panels for the walls, any advice or suggestions please ?
What kind of cold storage would we need ?
We have an instant demand of 200 pints/day but would rather double it & do every other day.
Thanks

We are interested to know if you have got your pasteurising and bottling building up and running?

 

[Bruce Almighty]

We are interested to know if you have got your pasteurising and bottling building up and running?

Not yet, still using a farm 12 miles away to supply the round we took on
Hope to press on now harvest & drilling complete.
Would like to be going by Christmas. I don't think we've allowed enough space so need to extend before we start

 

[balders]

Would it be worthwile going into plastics aswell. Shops, cafes, coffee shops and nursing homes are all big users of milk but buy it in plastic. It wouldnt cost a fortune to setup and would make the whole enterprise more viable imo

 

[Yatesbros1]

Would it be worthwile going into plastics aswell. Shops, cafes, coffee shops and nursing homes are all big users of milk but buy it in plastic. It wouldnt cost a fortune to setup and would make the whole enterprise more viable imo

We fill plastic cartons on same filler as glass,just need cartons,tops and some labels and your in business

 

[balders]

How do you go on with that? As our glass and plastic fillers are totally different, especially the lids needing screwing on rather than pressing?

 

[Yatesbros1]

How do you go on with that? As our glass and plastic fillers are totally different, especially the lids needing screwing on rather than pressing?

Our set up is only small scale,10 valve in crate bottle filler that will also fill 5 poly cartons at a time,tops screwed on by hand.I thought we were talking about micro dairies,I think you're on a lot bigger scale than us.

 

[balders]

id call us a micro dairy (bottle about 18000 litres per week) the beauty of a rotary plastic filler is it does everything (fills lids and labels) and its the way people seem to want milk now