VS-150 cheese vat for craft cheese production

Customer

Manufacturing company

Region

Tula Region

Year of delivery

2018

Equipment

VS cheese vat

Catalogue sections

Cheese making equipment, Milk processing equipment

In summer 2018 a manufacturing company in the Tula Region took the step from trading in dairy products to making its own cheese. To get started it needed a cheese vat that would allow it to produce saleable batches of craft cheese without building a full-scale industrial workshop.

In June 2018 the customer received a VS-150 cheese vat. The 150-litre unit carries out the full make in a single vessel: milk pasteurization, cooling to setting temperature, cutting the coagulum, and stirring and scalding the curd grains in temperature steps.

A 150-litre capacity is a practical format for craft production: one make yields a batch of cheese that a small team can handle within a shift, and it requires as much milk as can realistically be sourced from trusted local farms without compromising on raw milk quality.

The Tula Region, close to the Moscow market, is a rewarding place for farmhouse cheeses: the products go to farm shops and fairs. The Milberg cheese vat became the company's core production unit, around which the whole process is built — from milk reception to sending wheels for ripening.