Cheap pasturizer idea!!

[allenslabs]

Hey all..... you know that once you're in the goats that great goat minds will find one another. Well.... I have a few great minds that I'm glad to call my friends and a couple had this WONDERFUL idea for a cheap pasturizer. You know them electric turkey friers that you can get at walmart?? Well.... you take that and you find a metal milk pail and you use that turkey frier to pasturize your milk!!! I just bought mine tonight on get this...... CLEARANCE at the ever dreaded walmart. I know I know........ walmart schmalmart but still....... I got that baby for $59!!! I was like HOT DOWG!!! HAHA!!! It is normally $99 for those who don't have a clearance buy. LOL!! Cheaper than them normal pasturizers huh at $300.

DOn't you love the ingenuity of them goat people? Always thinking.... lol!!

[mygoat]

That is a good idea! How large of a capacity is that bucket that fits in the turkey cooker? If you could use a large bucket, that might not be a bad investment for alot of people! Even if you had gotten it at the 100.00 it would still be worth it!

For my pasturization or heat treating colostrum I'll be using an adjustable temperature multi cooker. It only hold 6 qts at a time, but I'll mostly only be using it for heat treating colostrum. I got the idea from a Michigan Dairy Goat Society journal that I have. I'll be putting the colostrum in ziplock bags and be heat treating them in water in the multicooker... Also got that at walmart for only 20.00. Well worth it!

[wildhorse]

Im taking notes...live and learn.

[Al. Countryboy]

It has been a couple of years since I pasturized our milk, but I used the microwave. I did a quart at a time. I would bring it straight in from milking, strain it into a container and stick into the microwave. Seems as though it took about 2 minutes to heat the milk up to about 165 degrees. I am sure that there maybe some that would say this might not be the way it should be done, but it worked for me. I seemed to be such a pain heating milk on the stove and clean up a breeze using the microwave. Not sure what the microwave would do to colostrum though.

[DocM]

I've been using one for years - people think I'm nuts when I mention it. Mine is all stainless and runs on propane, bought from the clearance list at cabelas.com.

[allenslabs]

Yeah it was funny when I was in walmart looking for it. I was in the housewares and this lady was trying to help me look for something with a dial that would go to a low heat. She said "what is it for?" When I said it was to pasturize milk she had this look like "really..... why did I even ask?" HAHA!! This one is stainless inside I think but the element it exposed and so I think that it would be best to put a bucket inside of it and heat the bucket. That's what my friend does I think. So I'll just get a 10qt or so milking pail and do it that way. We'll see what happens I guess!! This pail is really large though. It says 22qt but I'm thinkint that is the size of the whole thing. We'll see I guess