How to effectively take cream from milk?
I tried to take cream from raw (full fat) milk by the common method: leaving the milk at refrigerator overnight, then taking the cream from top. The amount of cream came to the top was low, and after separation, the milk was still fully fat. Then, next day new cream came onto the top, and the milk was still fat.
Is there a practical method (probably similar to industrial approach to skim milk) for full separation of cream from milk?
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If you have raw milk and let it sit, the cream will indeed rise to the top. To separate, you can just wait and skim off the cream as you did. However, if you store the raw milk in the refrigerator, it will take longer for the cream to rise. Perhaps that is why you are having difficulties. Alternatively, you can use a spigot jar to drain the "skimmed" milk from the raw milk, leaving the cream behind.
I think you end up with about 1/10th of your raw milk that is cream.
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Allow the milk to sit for at least 24 hours, then open the spigot at the bottom– the skimmed milk will come out, leaving the creamline floating at the top. Once you are nearing the end of the milk layer, you can capture the cream layer in a separate container.What is the best way to separate cream from milk?
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Even if your purchasing milk from a dairy that doesn't pasteurize their product the amount of cream is going to be very minimal. Dairies separate all the cream from their milk and when they package it as whole milk they only add back 3 and 1/2 percent cream to make whole milk. This means that for a gallon of milk (which is 128 ounces) they only return 4.48 ounces of cream. Or 1/2 cup and 1 tablespoon of cream. So even if you think that what separated from allowing it to set in the refrigerator overnight was low, if you separated out close to a half cup, your not going to get much more than that.
The only way to get more cream in your whole milk is by milking your own cow or finding a neighbor that milks and doesn't skim the milk himself. Also if your after high cream production make sure that the grain you're feeding is formulated to help the cow produce a high amount of cream.
Answer 3
I have started making Skyr and it is a low fat product. So I let my raw milk stand in the fridge a full 3 days before I collect the cream. I use a turkey baster:
You could also sanitize a hose put it in the milk before letting it stand and siphon the skim from the bottom leaving the cream. (You would have to sanitize the tube first.)
Answer 4
For raw milk. You use a blue filter. Or so called. You pour the milk threw them. The cream stays in the filter. You may not have these in America. But used in the Philippines & other 3rd world places. Try on line under dairy filters to find them. Normally found at feed stores here.
Answer 5
Letting the milk sit out for half an hour to an hour to warm up to separate the cream from it is safe. Yogurt is made by heating the milk, letting it cool, then adding bacterial cultures (ie, a bit of previously made yogurt).
Similarly, if the milk is off a bit, freeze it as it's perfect as buttermilk in recipes.
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