Why skim the cream? We tilt the jar so the spigot is the lowest point. We drain the milk into a different container then when the milk is gone, we drain the cream through the he spigot. Works like a champ.
I just found your channel and subscribed....first for the sweet way you spoke to your child and second when you asked for prayers for our country! Plus, great idea using the spigot jar!
This is a great way to keep the milk part drinkable milk (whole milk), unlike using cream separator machines that reduce the products into basically skim milk and cream. However, my only thought is that you are working too hard to get the two products by themselves. Instead of skimming off of the top after separation (a lot more work and messy).....you have a built in drain as it were, why not just drain the milk part into a separate container until you reach the cream separation line. At that point you have one container with cream and one with milk.
As you can see the spigot is about 40mm above the bottom of the jar. You wouldn't be able to drain all the milk out and it would be left sitting at the bottom of the jar.
I’m headed to the mountains of the Philippines soon to teach a family to milk the cows, Your channel will be my tool to show them how to separate the milk and do things with it, The family grow vegetables and split their income of 31 dollars a week between all of them, I figure they can sell the milk and dairy products to the neighbors and villagers. I about fell over when I found out they don’t milk the 🐮 cows, I was milking a cow by 7 for my family, buying them a fridge as well, I think what they make will 10 times pay the power bill for the fridge/freezer.Thanks, New Subscriber, Belus Traveller
In the fifties milk came delivered from the farm with the creme on the top. In glass bottles. My Mom would get cream for her coffee, shake up the rest for us in the milk. It was so good. We got our walking in . No fat issues.
Yes Mamm, The body knows what to do with the food God gave us to eat. We dried up our cow because she is due to calf soon. We sure do miss the milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, kiefer, and all of the other good things we make from her milk. Vivian Ann
My mother, who grew up in south-central Illinois in the 1920s, told me that, in the winter, the cream in the bottles left by the milkman would freeze and push the bottle caps off. The kids would grab a spoon and eat the frozen cream right out of the bottle. :)
I just found and subscribed to your channel. I was going to subscribe for the great video, but when you asked for prayers for our country, I knew I had found a GREAT channel to watch!
Thanks for watching even though you don't milk...now. I started milking a cow at around 60 years of age. I hope to keep learning until the day I die. Sounds like you feel the same way. Who knows, maybe one day you will have your own milk cow and you will remember this old country mammaw talking about how to separate the cream. God Bless, Vivian Ann
Wow!!! Thank you so much for this video!! You're correct! Ingenious! We're about to get two milking goats next weekend, and I'm excited to make cheese, butter, whipping cream, ice cream, and who knows what else!
Congratulations! Remember that goat milk is already homogenized when it comes out of the goat, so it takes a lot longer for the cream to separate. Keep me posted on your progress. BTW: I love making Feta cheese from goat milk. Enjoy!
your cream is so satisfying. im still learning how to yield cream from raw fresh milk (which i bought from my neighborhood) through internet. but is that raw milk or pasteurized?
Good morning! We use raw milk, but it works the same way for pasteurized milk (as long as the milk has not been homogenized). When I make cheese, I pasteurize the milk by heating it to 160 degrees Fahrenheit and cool it quickly by putting the pot in a sink with cold water. Hope this helps. Vivian Ann on the side of the mountain in northeast Tennessee
2LadyHomesteaders Hodge thank you for your time. so we can refrigerate pasteurized or raw milk in the fridge and then we can skim the cream the next day?
Wouldn't it be easier to open the spout and drain the milk off the bottom into a container and then the cream into a different container. That seems like it would be much less effort and less of a mess.
I just did this. We are really bad at skimming the cream. I let it sit for a day, then filled my jars with the milk and stopped when I thought I was getting to the cream. The cream was too thick to go through the spigot, so I just poured it out. We have a dexter. Out of 1.25gallons of milk, I got 1 quart of cream and a gallon of milk. Do you know what size the opening for the spigot is? My husband grabbed one from Walmart but the opening was too small for my stainless steel spigot to fit in it so I have to return it…. Yours looks a lot bigger!
I’ve been getting more and more interested in raw milk and real cream since I started making recipes calling for double cream and cream that’s not ultra heat treated. And recipes calling for curd and strained yoghurt, like Indian butter chicken and British chicken tikka masala. I’ve began looking for places to get raw milk and or at least low heat treated cream. Weston A. Price foundation has listings for every state with local farmers to supply raw milk if state laws allow it. I haven’t got it yet but I’m excited for what I’ll make when I get it. I’ll eat so much cream I’ll have a belly ache. Chocolate milk with cream, cream for milk coffee, strawberries, maybe in my cereal, maybe just a tablespoon of straight cream. Who knows. Like the video😊
Selling raw milk is illegal in Tennessee. I can give it away (for animal consumption) but would do time, go to jail, and could even have my cow euthanized. I know... it's crazy!
Yes it is crazy, too much government regulation, and wanting to get their hands and noses in everything. Making problems where there are none. I’d like to get a dairy cow some day. It must take lots of dedication, but would be a great relationship with the cow and great experience
@@natesuhl4322 ...let's just say that she is real good at beating me awake each morning with her tail. Flies have been bad here this year and they cover this poor cow until I spray her. She and I are buddies and I tell her everything (all my secrets, frustrations, thoughts, and zany ideas) every morning. I know they are safe with her and she will never share them. Haha
Well good luck and health to you and the farm as well, I found a farm close to me where I can get my milk, butter, cream and all kinds of good stuff. It’s legal here in Illinois but only on the farm sales. Can’t wait to make Alfredo, chocolate milk and other good stuff
tyowongndeso... Good morning, We use our milk raw (unheated) except when I am making cheese. Both ways work with this method. If you should want to pasturize, simply heat the milk to 160 degrees F and then pour it into the jar to separate. Place the jar into the frig or cooling area immediately.Good question. Vivian Ann on the side of the mountain in NE Tennessee
thank you.how long do we need to sit the raw milk to have cream layer? do we sit the unheated raw milk in fridge or do we just sit it in room temperature till the cream formed?
@@tyowongndeso sit the milk in your refrigerator for about 1 day. The cream should have separated. If the milk is not refrigerated it well sour. God bless, Vivian Ann
After milking, the milk is filtered and immediately put in the fridge and cooled. I generally let the milk sit at least 24 hrs in the fridge before separating the cream. If I get super busy, it may sit two or three days. Of course, it is kept cold the entire time. Great question.
Absolutely. You can do anything with your separated cow milk that you would do with that expensive store bought cream. Thanks for the question. Vivian Ann
@@2ladyhomesteadershodge898 thanks for the reply One more question, getting raw milk's cream will not be harmful to our health? P.S I am not English speaking my english is not so good
@@myfirstgarden3350 ...We have been using our cows milk raw for years. She is dry now and we are seriously missing her raw milk. Great question. Just use your own judgement as to how clean the conditions the cow is kept in. You can always pasteurized the milk by simply heating it to 160 degrees Farenhite. Hope this helps. Your English is great.
@@2ladyhomesteadershodge898 Alhamdulillah I have 11 cows in total in my farm yesterday I separated the cream and whipped it, it came out very well fluffy but I was a little worried about not boiled milk for kids as we never used raw milk
Goat milk would have to sit in your refrigerator for at least 7 days for separation to occur. Goat milk is naturally homogenized. This homogenization makes separation much more difficult. We have milk goats and use their milk mostly for cheese. Great question!
How did your milk spoil? Maybe there is a misunderstanding. The milk is placed in the refrigerator for 24 hours. When the cream has separated, take it out of the refrigerator and scoop out the cream. Then return the cream and milk to the refrigerator. I hope this helps to clarify the instructions and I am sorry for your loss. Vivian Ann on the side of the mountain in northeast Tennessee
@@2ladyhomesteadershodge898 maybe my fridge is not cold enough (it's full of vegetables), and butter is used only for special occasions here because people think it's expensive compared to margarine. (During the dutch colonial times the jews brought margarine here, people think it's the same thing with lower price)
maybe Your milk is fermented not spoiled. look for fermented milk. it becomes thick. doesn't mean its spoiled You can make many thing with it. smell it first if it smelled bad then its spoiled
Wendy Benjamin Goat milk is harder to separate the cream from the milk because it is naturally homogenized. It takes much longer. Vivian Ann on the side of the mountain in NE Tennessee
Why dont you just hold a jar under the tap and drain off the milk, leaving the cream so you can just pour it out?
Why skim the cream? We tilt the jar so the spigot is the lowest point. We drain the milk into a different container then when the milk is gone, we drain the cream through the he spigot. Works like a champ.
I just found your channel and subscribed....first for the sweet way you spoke to your child and second when you asked for prayers for our country! Plus, great idea using the spigot jar!
This is a great way to keep the milk part drinkable milk (whole milk), unlike using cream separator machines that reduce the products into basically skim milk and cream. However, my only thought is that you are working too hard to get the two products by themselves. Instead of skimming off of the top after separation (a lot more work and messy).....you have a built in drain as it were, why not just drain the milk part into a separate container until you reach the cream separation line. At that point you have one container with cream and one with milk.
mark hughes I’m definitely using your thought on this...great idea..thanks
thats what i thought it was for😂😂
Why its better than skimming machine.
As you can see the spigot is about 40mm above the bottom of the jar. You wouldn't be able to drain all the milk out and it would be left sitting at the bottom of the jar.
Can you add some of the cream back to the skim milk to reconstitute whole milk?
I’m headed to the mountains of the Philippines soon to teach a family to milk the cows, Your channel will be my tool to show them how to separate the milk and do things with it, The family grow vegetables and split their income of 31 dollars a week between all of them, I figure they can sell the milk and dairy products to the neighbors and villagers. I about fell over when I found out they don’t milk the 🐮 cows, I was milking a cow by 7 for my family, buying them a fridge as well, I think what they make will 10 times pay the power bill for the fridge/freezer.Thanks, New Subscriber, Belus Traveller
How'd it go?
In the fifties milk came delivered from the farm with the creme on the top. In glass bottles. My Mom would get cream for her coffee, shake up the rest for us in the milk. It was so good. We got our walking in . No fat issues.
Yes Mamm, The body knows what to do with the food God gave us to eat. We dried up our cow because she is due to calf soon. We sure do miss the milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, kiefer, and all of the other good things we make from her milk. Vivian Ann
My mother, who grew up in south-central Illinois in the 1920s, told me that, in the winter, the cream in the bottles left by the milkman would freeze and push the bottle caps off. The kids would grab a spoon and eat the frozen cream right out of the bottle. :)
So you were drinking skim milk. 😂
I just found and subscribed to your channel. I was going to subscribe for the great video, but when you asked for prayers for our country, I knew I had found a GREAT channel to watch!
I have never milked or farmed anything in my life idk why I'm watching this but it's really fascinating
Thanks for watching even though you don't milk...now. I started milking a cow at around 60 years of age. I hope to keep learning until the day I die. Sounds like you feel the same way. Who knows, maybe one day you will have your own milk cow and you will remember this old country mammaw talking about how to separate the cream. God Bless, Vivian Ann
I would put some of that beautiful fresh raw cream in a big steaming mug of black coffee! Yum!
Wow!!! Thank you so much for this video!! You're correct! Ingenious! We're about to get two milking goats next weekend, and I'm excited to make cheese, butter, whipping cream, ice cream, and who knows what else!
Congratulations! Remember that goat milk is already homogenized when it comes out of the goat, so it takes a lot longer for the cream to separate. Keep me posted on your progress. BTW: I love making Feta cheese from goat milk. Enjoy!
@@2ladyhomesteadershodge898 I love how you always reference God. Thanks a lot for the video.
Mom used to talk about how the cream from my aunt's cows was so thick, a spoon would stand up in it!
your cream is so satisfying. im still learning how to yield cream from raw fresh milk (which i bought from my neighborhood) through internet. but is that raw milk or pasteurized?
Good morning! We use raw milk, but it works the same way for pasteurized milk (as long as the milk has not been homogenized). When I make cheese, I pasteurize the milk by heating it to 160 degrees Fahrenheit and cool it quickly by putting the pot in a sink with cold water. Hope this helps. Vivian Ann on the side of the mountain in northeast Tennessee
2LadyHomesteaders Hodge thank you for your time. so we can refrigerate pasteurized or raw milk in the fridge and then we can skim the cream the next day?
Yes Ma'am!
Wouldn't it be easier to open the spout and drain the milk off the bottom into a container and then the cream into a different container. That seems like it would be much less effort and less of a mess.
Hi. Came over from DeepSouthHomestead. I have goats and this is an awesome idea. ☺
What a great idea.
Could you show us how you make butter sometime?
My grandfather 30yrs ago had this idea. But he had to build "device" himself as they weren't commercially available
Genius!😊
This was very helpful, thank you
Is the large jar glass or plastic? I can only find plastic and I am concerned about it absorbing goat milk smell.
Yes God bless America 🇺🇸 🙏
Good idea!!
Is that all from one animal? I was told not to mix milk. I thought I'd I cooled it I could may it together till it's full.... God Bless!!!!
I just did this. We are really bad at skimming the cream. I let it sit for a day, then filled my jars with the milk and stopped when I thought I was getting to the cream. The cream was too thick to go through the spigot, so I just poured it out. We have a dexter. Out of 1.25gallons of milk, I got 1 quart of cream and a gallon of milk. Do you know what size the opening for the spigot is? My husband grabbed one from Walmart but the opening was too small for my stainless steel spigot to fit in it so I have to return it…. Yours looks a lot bigger!
Hi do you leave the milk out in room temp or in the fridge? Also how long does it take to separate once you leave it . Thanks for the video
I keep the milk in the fridge so that it doesn't sour. It takes about 24 hours for the milk and cream to separate.
How much butter will be made from half galon cream???
I’ve been getting more and more interested in raw milk and real cream since I started making recipes calling for double cream and cream that’s not ultra heat treated. And recipes calling for curd and strained yoghurt, like Indian butter chicken and British chicken tikka masala. I’ve began looking for places to get raw milk and or at least low heat treated cream. Weston A. Price foundation has listings for every state with local farmers to supply raw milk if state laws allow it. I haven’t got it yet but I’m excited for what I’ll make when I get it. I’ll eat so much cream I’ll have a belly ache. Chocolate milk with cream, cream for milk coffee, strawberries, maybe in my cereal, maybe just a tablespoon of straight cream. Who knows. Like the video😊
Selling raw milk is illegal in Tennessee. I can give it away (for animal consumption) but would do time, go to jail, and could even have my cow euthanized. I know... it's crazy!
Yes it is crazy, too much government regulation, and wanting to get their hands and noses in everything. Making problems where there are none. I’d like to get a dairy cow some day. It must take lots of dedication, but would be a great relationship with the cow and great experience
@@natesuhl4322 ...let's just say that she is real good at beating me awake each morning with her tail. Flies have been bad here this year and they cover this poor cow until I spray her. She and I are buddies and I tell her everything (all my secrets, frustrations, thoughts, and zany ideas) every morning. I know they are safe with her and she will never share them. Haha
Well good luck and health to you and the farm as well, I found a farm close to me where I can get my milk, butter, cream and all kinds of good stuff. It’s legal here in Illinois but only on the farm sales. Can’t wait to make Alfredo, chocolate milk and other good stuff
Thank you ladies, very informative!
how the cream seprat like this,did you shakit,necouse the market milk is not seprate?
Because of less fat content.Here in Europe u mostly buy in supermarket 2 or 3.2% fat.You need fresh milk and not those bottled pasteurized.
is the milk uncooked or should we cook it first before take the cream?
tyowongndeso... Good morning, We use our milk raw (unheated) except when I am making cheese. Both ways work with this method. If you should want to pasturize, simply heat the milk to 160 degrees F and then pour it into the jar to separate. Place the jar into the frig or cooling area immediately.Good question. Vivian Ann on the side of the mountain in NE Tennessee
thank you.how long do we need to sit the raw milk to have cream layer? do we sit the unheated raw milk in fridge or do we just sit it in room temperature till the cream formed?
@@tyowongndeso sit the milk in your refrigerator for about 1 day. The cream should have separated. If the milk is not refrigerated it well sour. God bless, Vivian Ann
Such beautiful memories in this comment section !
Do you have a video on how to freeze whole raw cow milk
Why? Isn't easier to drain the skin milk down and leave the cream?
Love this
Do you leave the milk on the counter to separate or keep it in the fridge? If so how long do you let it set?
After milking, the milk is filtered and immediately put in the fridge and cooled. I generally let the milk sit at least 24 hrs in the fridge before separating the cream. If I get super busy, it may sit two or three days. Of course, it is kept cold the entire time. Great question.
Ok, thank you
god bless america !
Can we whip it?
Absolutely. You can do anything with your separated cow milk that you would do with that expensive store bought cream. Thanks for the question. Vivian Ann
@@2ladyhomesteadershodge898 thanks for the reply
One more question, getting raw milk's cream will not be harmful to our health?
P.S I am not English speaking my english is not so good
@@myfirstgarden3350 ...We have been using our cows milk raw for years. She is dry now and we are seriously missing her raw milk. Great question. Just use your own judgement as to how clean the conditions the cow is kept in. You can always pasteurized the milk by simply heating it to 160 degrees Farenhite. Hope this helps. Your English is great.
@@2ladyhomesteadershodge898 Alhamdulillah I have 11 cows in total in my farm yesterday I separated the cream and whipped it, it came out very well fluffy but I was a little worried about not boiled milk for kids as we never used raw milk
Your milk yields far more cream than mine does.
My cow is a guernsey. They have wonderful rich milk. What breed is your cow? Vivian Ann
I found the website on UA-cam it's called Health by Sarah
Can you do this wth goat milk?
Goat milk would have to sit in your refrigerator for at least 7 days for separation to occur. Goat milk is naturally homogenized. This homogenization makes separation much more difficult. We have milk goats and use their milk mostly for cheese. Great question!
I'd like to seperate goat's milk and cream too, maybe I'll try letting it sit for 7 days 🤔
Not spicket, it is a spigot
Mam we are not able to understand bcoz you are using totally english. 😔
Spigot.
I've never had fresh milk or cream.
when you are able to come for a visit, we will share some of our raw milk products. it will be the best that you have ever tasted
Its recording🙂
thanks now my gallon of milk is spoiled
How did your milk spoil? Maybe there is a misunderstanding. The milk is placed in the refrigerator for 24 hours. When the cream has separated, take it out of the refrigerator and scoop out the cream. Then return the cream and milk to the refrigerator. I hope this helps to clarify the instructions and I am sorry for your loss. Vivian Ann on the side of the mountain in northeast Tennessee
@@2ladyhomesteadershodge898 maybe my fridge is not cold enough (it's full of vegetables), and butter is used only for special occasions here because people think it's expensive compared to margarine. (During the dutch colonial times the jews brought margarine here, people think it's the same thing with lower price)
maybe Your milk is fermented not spoiled. look for fermented milk. it becomes thick. doesn't mean its spoiled You can make many thing with it. smell it first if it smelled bad then its spoiled
Nope, sound is crap!
Hi. Came over from DeepSouthHomestead. I have goats and this is an awesome idea. ☺
Wendy Benjamin Goat milk is harder to separate the cream from the milk because it is naturally homogenized. It takes much longer. Vivian Ann on the side of the mountain in NE Tennessee
Renee of Michiganshowpony has videos showing how she separates the cream from her goats' milk and makes butter with it.