How do you separate cream from milk?

[big brown horse]

Do I need a special gadget?

Thanks

 

[Blackbird]

To separate ALL of the cream, you do need a cream separator, which are pretty spendy..

However, I usually just collect my cream by letting a jar sit undisturbed in the fridge for a week or more, that way I can collect at least an inch or two of cream at a time. You can leave the jar on the counter as well, the warmer it is, the faster the cream rises. Another way I collect cream when I need a lot is that I put the milk on a shallow tray, or a cake pan type of container. I find the cream rises up easier because it has less milk to travel up through.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

what he said
;-)

i've found, with cows milk, that it separates pretty fast and overnite you can get some good stuff. there seems to be a line between getting all the cream you can.. and getting enough before it starts to get funky.

you can also pour the milk into one of those spigots-at-the-bottom-of-the-tea-jar-thingy's and then you can pour the milk out and are left with the cream.

whatcha makin'? butter perhaps??

 

[big brown horse]

Yup, and I want to make that ice cream recipe I posted earlier.

Thanks you guys! Now if a little milk stays with the cream, that is ok right?

 

[Blackbird]

Yes that's fine.

Monique and I had a butter thread around here somewhere I think.. We talked about it anyway. Good luck Sally!

 

[big brown horse]

Yes that's fine.

Monique and I had a butter thread around here somewhere I think.. We talked about it anyway. Good luck Sally!

Thank you! I'll go and dig it up and bring it back to the surface.

 

[freemotion]

We were talking about goat butter, which is a difficult and delicate operation, especially if one doesn't have a cream separator. Also if one walks away from the stand mixer and it becomes butter suddenly and the buttermilk flies all over the kitchen!!!!