Full fatted cottage cheese/yogurt?

[Mountaineer]

I eat a lot of storebought CC/yogurt and expect to eat even more with my very own goat!
If you can't get the cream off the top- how would you partially de-fat it?

And... if you can de-fat it- what could you do with that fat (add it to cheese?) I'd think it could come in pretty handy?
Thanks.

[Jillis]

Why do you want to defat it?

Raw milk with the fat in it is extremely beneficial to your health. Pasteurizing milk and cream causes changes in the proteins and fats that make them detrimental to your health.

You need to get at least 30 percent of your calories from healthy fats, such as are found in raw milk and cream.

[pookshollow]

A little bit of the cream rises (depending on the time of lactation - I find more cream later on) after a couple of days. When I'm ready to make cheese, I skim that off, put it in a jug, and we use it in our coffee - mmmm, fresh cream. It's really just enough to keep us in cream for coffee - of course, that's only one goat! Once the others freshen, I'll be freezing it and saving it for . . . cream cheese, ice cream - lots of things!

[Mountaineer]

Mmm yes cream for coffee.
I must be confused then. The CC/yogurt that I can generally buy is about 2%, and I was afraid goat milk would produce something along the line of 15% milkfat.
Milk fat is mainly saturated (isn't it?) which is one of those things that should be limited. Meaning- I wouldn't be able to eat 2 cups of cottage cheese every day anymore unless I planned to start jogging, and I don't want to start jogging!

[Jillis]

No, goats produce something along the lines of anywhere from 2.5% milkfat to 6 % or a little more. It varies by breed, by breeding, and by time of lactation.

The fat globules in goat's milk are naturally homogenized into the milk, and therefore in order to really separate it efficiently you would need a cream separator.

However, saturated fats are not the dietary no-no that the industry would have you believe. You need to educate yourself on this subject.

Read some of these links---my dh was having severe chest pains, we refused the meds they wanted to put him on, did the research, changed his diet completely, and today he is completely healed! He could not walk one block and now he does a full days hard physical labor. God also touched him.

http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny.html

http://www.thincs.org/links.htm