VS-100 cheese vat for an urban craft cheese dairy

Customer

Private producer

Region

Moscow

Year of delivery

2019

Equipment

VS cheese vat

Catalogue sections

Cheese making equipment, Milk processing equipment

The urban cheese dairy is a format that has grown in recent years from a curiosity into a sustainable business. In November 2019 a private producer in Moscow bought a VS-100 cheese vat from us to make craft cheeses in small batches.

The customer needed a compact professional cheese vat: the premises are small and batches are up to a hundred litres of milk, but the quality requirements for every wheel are the highest. The VS-100 fits exactly this scenario: precise temperature control via the heating jacket, gentle agitation, and convenient handling of the coagulum at every stage of the make.

The vat is used for a wide range of cheeses — from fresh and brined to aged semi-hard varieties. Small capacity is an advantage here: the cheesemaker can keep a dozen varieties in the range and make them in turn according to demand, rather than tying up money in large batches of one kind.

The cheese vat was built in Yekaterinburg, tested on the factory test bench and handed over to the customer with a full set of documentation. The Moscow workshop ran its first makes the same season — confirming our long-held conviction that professional equipment belongs not only in a large plant but also in small-scale production, where output is counted in wheels rather than tonnes.