We have a new toy. The instructions are in Russian, although there is also a rather shonky French translation. So the first time we used it we did it on chilled milk and it didn't work which was most disappointing. But after consulting the internet we realised we should have used warm from the cow milk. So we tried again today after milking. It worked much better! There is a screw you adjust to vary the thickness of the cream. Today we got single cream, which left milk about the same as normal full fat!
It is a bit messy to use, and something of a trial to clean, but amazing to see it working and will be good when we have the outdoor kitchen up and running so cleanup is easier.
We are not quite sure how it works. There is a cone inside which spins very fast.
Inside that there is a stack of smaller cones with holes in them
Which get piled up inside the spinning bit
With a plastic bit on top and then the final metal bit making it look like the first photo.
This gets assembled with the rest of the machine, and by some magic, milk poured in to the top
is separated in to milk and cream
Cream comes out one spout
And milk out the other!
This one is electric and everything except one piece is metal. Having had the fun of cleaning it possibly a plastic hand cranked one might be used more often (everything could go in the dishwasher). That is item 497 on my Christmas list...
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