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It's not Just Joel Salatin anymore
Dan L wrote:
songbird wrote: Dan L wrote: FarmI wrote: Dan L.wrote: Why I have my own chickens and a Jersey milk cow. Mmmmmm.. A Jersey. How much does she produce a day? Nothing yet, impregnated the cow last week. She should produce more than I can drink. Will learn to make my own cheese products with the extra. The cheese making equipment is not cheap. I read, not done it yet, it takes 17 pounds of milk and one year to make one pound of parmesan cheese. sterilized buckets, cheese-cloth and a culture of some kind. none of these are majorly expensive. some heat source during the cooler months if your place of production is not insulated well... the most expensive part is the time it takes to finish or age and that means storage space. the people who use caves have it right. mmm! Soft cheeses are low cost and can be made in short time, from what i read. yeah! and whole milk yogurt from raw milk is wonderful too. i can imagine what a good raw cream cheese, brie, camembert, etc. would be like. Hard cheeses are not, price a cheese press? Might modify a fridge for storage. how large a press are you talking here? gravity, water in buckets and the right surfaces, forms and inserts are not that tough to figure out nor horribly expensive, what am i missing here? sure, if you go all stainless steel with a hydraulic press and all sorts of gizmos you'll be out some major bucks, but improvise with some woodworking skills and i think you can get by for much less. you gotta show her who's boss. physics, otherwise, will not be your friend, in this equation. Physics is my friend along with his sidekick calculus. that derivative use of a sliderule wasn't covered! songbird |
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