[Cheese] Whey cheese questions

[Peter Næslund Møller]

The lactose in the whey is great bacteria food..  The local sewage processing plant usually gets around 40 tons of whey per day to keep their bacteria alive.. They had been having problems since both the slaughterhouse and bisquit factory in town closed..

/peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Walde" <scott at saskatoon.com>
To: "The Cheese Makers' Digest" <cheese at hbd.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Cheese] Whey cheese questions


> One alternative to dumping your whey down the drain is to find someone 
> who is experimenting with biobutanol production.  Apparently whey is a 
> good source of food for the ABE bacteria used in this process.  For more 
> information see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biogasoline/
> 
> ttyl
> srw
> 
> Jack Schmidling wrote:
> > Joel Plutchak wrote:
> >  
> >> low?  At this stage, I'm thinking it's not worth messing with
> >> it in the typical low-scale home/hobbyist setting.
> >>     
> >
> > I think we all come to that conclusion after just one attempt at 
> > "salvaging" the whey.
> >
> > To get any decent yield out of a "whey" cheese you need to use equal 
> > parts of whole milk so it is a loser for the small producer.
> >   
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