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US 8,273,391 B2Granted
Method for producing cheese
AssigneeGea Westfalia Separator GmbH
InventorMarkus Hüllmann
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method for producing cheese in which the method includes the steps of: providing dairy milk, which could be a skimmed milk and cream mixture; producing a gel-type curd/whey mixture by coagulation; and cutting the curd/whey mixture in a cheese processor such that the whey flows out of the curd.
Claims24
A method of producing cheese, the method steps, in the following sequence, comprising:
- a) providing a decanter;
- b) providing dairy milk from which a gel-type curd/whey mixture is produced by coagulation;
- c) cutting the gel-type curd/whey mixture in a cheese processor such that whey from the gel-type curd/whey mixture flows out of the curd;
- d) conveying the resulting gel-type curd/whey mixture into the decanter;
- e) separating the curd in the decanter into a drained curd and whey;
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- f) pressing the drained curd, thereby producing the cheese.
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A method of producing cheese and whey, the method steps. in the following sequence, comprising:
- a) providing a decanter;
- b) providing dairy milk from which a gel-type curd/whey mixture is produced by coagulation;
- c) cutting the gel-type curd/whey mixture in a cheese processor such that whey from the curd/whey mixture flows out of the curd;
- d) conveying the resulting gel-type curd/whey mixture into the decanter;
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- e) separating the curd in the decanter into a drained curd and whey such that a fraction of centrifugable solids in the whey is less than 0.3%.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.