Many villagers keep cattle in their households. Here milk is a hot commodity. It is bought by summer residents, townspeople and villagers. In the summer and spring periods, milk yield increases, it should be processed into products with a longer shelf life: butter and cream. For this purpose, villagers use an electric separator for milk (or manual). This will be discussed in this article.
Household separators
They are designed for the separation of milk at home. What is this process? Translated from the Latin language, "separation" is the separation, the separation of liquids with different densities. In this case, separation means the separation of particles: light from heavy. The first is cream and fat, the second is water or milk return. So cream and butter turn out.
Milk is a perishable product. Often there is a need for its processing to extend the shelf life and obtain new dairy products. For this, a household electric separator is used.
Varieties of separators
These home appliances vary in performance, capacity, power and many other parameters. But the main difference is that the separators are manual and electric. In our country, both types are successfully used. They are not much different in cost. But the electric separator, whose price is still not the determining criterion for selection, is much more convenient to operate.
Operating principle
First you need to turn on the device: the drum starts to rotate. Milk is poured into the bowl, which, thanks to the tap and the float chamber, enters the drum. There it is distributed on plates.
Due to the action of centrifugal force, the cream arrives at the center, as lighter, rises up and enters the receiving compartment for cream. Skim milk is heavier. It exfoliates and is diverted through the appropriate gap to the receiver. Mechanical contaminants are periodically removed: rinse with sufficient water.
How to choose an electric separator?
When buying a household appliance, you should familiarize yourself with the technical specifications. Particular attention should be paid to the price indicator, the volume of the product, milk belonging: from a cow or goat. It is very important how many revolutions per minute the drum makes and from what material the internal parts are made.
You don’t have to think about the rotation speed of the drum for processing cow’s milk. Almost all devices have it within eight to twelve thousand revolutions per minute. But many people prefer goat milk, which needs a high-speed separator to process it.
When buying an electric separator for milk, it is very important to pay attention to the material from which the internal parts of the device are made. They come in metal from stainless steel or aluminum, plastic and nylon. Stainless steel parts are considered more practical, they do not oxidize, wash well, they are not difficult to care for - almost all reviews say this.
If you give preference to aluminum parts, you should remember: acidic and alkaline detergents are not for them. The most impractical are kapron parts. Now, having useful information, when buying an electric separator, you can avoid many mistakes and purchase a device for use for many years.
When choosing a separator should not neglect customer reviews about the product. One likes devices with a metal case, while others like plastic ones. Someone leaves a positive review about a high-speed household appliance, and someone is satisfied with the average number of revolutions per minute and so on.
Electric household churn separator
These devices are most often made of metal, although plastic ones are also found. The electric separator consists of a flask with a tight lid, an impeller, which connects to the electric motor and mixes the liquid inside, for which not milk, but well-settled cream is poured into the tank.
For the mixing process, close the lid and turn on the appliance. At the end of the process, fat globules are separated from the liquid, which, when whisked, gradually begin to lose their shell and stick together with each other, forming a clot of oil. Then the liquid is drained, and the resulting mass is laid out on a napkin to remove residual liquid.
After completion of the work, the household electric separator must be disassembled, washed with hot water and wiped dry. It is important to know that during operation of the separator when the tank is filled with liquid, it is not turned over and not tilted at a large angle. Let's say the slope is up to 45 °. Otherwise, liquid from the tank may get into the engine and a short circuit will occur, despite the fact that the modern electric separator is equipped with a protection system.
Manual Home Separator
To operate the device with a manual principle of action, you need to use muscle strength. The container is untwisted by hands with a special handle, which transfers rotation to it through the drive. Manual separators are mainly equipped with small-sized bowls: only 5.5 liters. Milk is constantly poured into the bowl up to 14 times. It is not comfortable. Therefore, many owners purchase appliances with a 12-liter bowl. But such separators are heavier, especially if the bowl is made of metal. And they cost an order of magnitude more expensive.
It may seem that in the age of high technology this is a morally obsolete approach to milk processing. And yet, why do people use hand held devices? Yes, because manual separators work without an electrical network. When power outages, and in rural areas is a frequent occurrence, a manual separator is more than ever helpful. Customer reviews note that at home it is easier to repair. It costs less than an electric separator, the price of which is about a thousand rubles higher.
Hand-held devices process up to eighty liters of milk in one hour. Their weight is small, about three kilograms. Thanks to their compact design and small volume, they are easily transported, even without the use of vehicles.
Technical characteristics of the separator ESB-02
The electric separator for milk processing of this brand has a capacity of 80 watts. His drum rotates at a speed of 11 thousand revolutions per minute. The separator processes 80 liters of milk per hour. In just 1-2 minutes, it enters the operating mode and works continuously for 30 minutes. Then the device must be turned off for about ten minutes and only then continue to work.
This separator is small in size and weighs up to three and a half kilograms. The ratio of cream to skim milk varies: the lowest is 1: 4, the highest is 1:10. The milk container holds 12 liters of product. However, separators of other brands and manufacturers may have completely different technical characteristics, depending on which the prices for them are different.
So, this device can be bought for 3153 rubles, the electric separator Salut for 4341 rubles, Rotor SP 003-01 for 2677 rubles. This list goes on and on, since there are a lot of separator manufacturers. But about the separators listed in the article, buyers respond positively, talking about their durability and convenience.