Lehmans cream seperators

[FarmboyBill]

Got my new catalog today. They had an old style seperator that you just pour the milk in and let it set and pour off the bottom, I guess. I hadnt seen one of those in 40 yrs, and it was junk then when I saw it. They wernt popular at all. Doubt if theyed work at all here in Okieland, if you had to leave the milk set in it for 4/5hrs. It would get sour pretty quick in July/Aug

[homesteadmama]

Hey Bill--We have been separating the cream with a similar but more modern version of that--the Sun Tea Gallon Jar! With the spout on the bottom it has worked really well for the several of us that I know use it. There have been times in the past that I had three or four lined up in the old fridge. The great thing about the Sun Tea jars is that you can just stick them in the fridge to let the milk separate rather than needing to find a place for the huge separator to stand and do it's thing! Then throw them in the sink to clean thoroughly before the next batch!

[Nette]

I'm lazy. I used to use the sun tea pitcher, and then I just started using a 1/3 cup measuring cup to skim the cream off the top. I put it in a plastic container and freeze. I keep adding skimmed cream to this plastic container 'til I have enough to make butter. I got lazy doing that, too. Instead of pulling out the churn, I just save two batches of cream, thaw and let sit about 8 hours, pour into a chilled quart jar, and shake, shake, shake. Makes enough butter for DH and I to use on our biscuits for about five days.

[farminghandyman]

on my goat milk, (and goat milk does not separate as easly as cow), I use stainless steel stock pots, and if you fill the container up to where it touches the lid, the cream will cling to the lid in the refrigerator, (it seems to take less time if touching the lid),
if not touching the lid it seems to take about 2 to 3 days, and I use one of the cheese making ladles with the small holes in it to skim the milk, (I have a good small hand crank unit but the clean up time, is a PIA, when I had been getting 5+ gallons a day mechanical separation was good,

but now I put in the stock pot, and wait a day or so in the milk refrigerator in the barn and skim off the cream and put in a small container and freeze the cream, my daughter then comes and makes butter out of it.