VS-30 compact cheese vat for starting a cheese business

Customer

Private producer

Region

Republic of Tatarstan

Equipment

VS cheese vat

Catalogue sections

Cheese making equipment, Milk processing equipment

Thirty litres per batch is exactly the scale at which many cheese-making journeys begin. In January 2022 a private producer from the Republic of Tatarstan purchased a compact VS-30 cheese vat from Milberg to develop recipes and make its first commercial batches of cheese.

Here the small volume is not a limitation but a tool: with 30 litres of milk you can afford to experiment with starter cultures, temperatures and holding times without the risk of losing a large batch of raw milk. At the same time the VS-30 is built the same way as its larger siblings: a vessel of food-grade stainless steel, a heating jacket and precise temperature control at every stage — from pasteurization to curd making.

The process cycle fully mirrors the full-scale one: milk pasteurization, cooling, adding starter culture and rennet, cutting and stirring the coagulum, whey draining. A recipe developed on the VS-30 is then scaled up unchanged to larger vessels — only the batch size changes, not the technology.

This kind of start relieves a novice cheese maker of the main risk — investing in large equipment before finding their own product and their own customers. And once demand is confirmed in practice, moving to the next size happens on a familiar, well-tuned technology.