Cream
Separator
Before
about 1900 the standard method of separating cream from milk was to let it sit
in a container over night and skim off the cream the following morning. This procedure changed for larger producers
of milk and milk products such as dairy farmers with the use of the cream
separator. The requirement of a day or
more for the cream to rise could be reduced to a few minutes by a device, the
cream separator, that subjected the milk to several gravities by the use of the
centrifugal force of the separator.
The picture above is an early model of a hand operated cream separator.
Provided by Dorothy
Bayes
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