DESCRIPTION
Cheese making involves a number of main stages which are
common to most types of cheese.
For example, the main stages for production of hard and semi-hard cheese are
illustrated schematically on the block chart in Figure 14.1.
The cheese milk is pretreated, after addition of a bacteria culture appropriate
to the type of cheese, and mixed with rennet. The enzyme activity of the rennet
causes the milk to coagulate to a solid gel known as coagulum. This is cut with
special cutting tools into small cubes of the desired size to facilitate
expulsion of whey. During the rest of the curd making process the bacteria grow
and form lactic acid, and the curd grains are subjected to mechanical treatment
with stirring tools, while at the same time the curd is heated according to a
preset program. The combined effect of these three actions – growth of
bacteria, mechanical treatment and heat treatment – results in syneresis, i.e. separation of whey from the curd grains.
The finished curd is placed in cheese moulds, which determine the shape of the
finished cheese. The cheese is pressed, either by its own weight or by applying
pressure to the moulds. Finally, the cheese is coated, wrapped or
packed. Most kinds of cheese will ripened in the ripening room for deferent
period.
BENEFIT
1.Opportunity to realize products with customized
recipes.
2.Opportunity to produce more than one product
with the same processing line.
3.High quality of the final product keeping an elevated nutritional value.
4.Wide customization of the final product.
5.Maximum yield, minimum production waste.
6.Highest energy savings thanks to the most advanced technologies.
7.Complete line supervision system through monitoring of every process phase.
8.Recording, visualization and printing of all daily production data.
CONSTRUCTION FEATURES
Working
capacity
from 1 tons/d up to 50 tons/d
Products - Cheddar
cheese
- Emmenthal cheese
- Gouda cheese
- Tilsiter cheese
- Mozzarella cheese
- Blue veined cheese
- Camembert
cheese
- Cottage cheese
- Quarg
- Processed cheese