Filter with stainless steel reusable coffee filter?

[wmsff]

Does anyone use one, and find it works well? I only have 2 milking and use the disposable milk filters, but they are slow. I used the coffee filter a few times and it is faster, but I'm wondering if I'm letting things through. When I milk the girls, I just have a ss bucket. No straining cloth or anything covering the top. I found when I used a hankerchief over the top, I got lots of milk spray in my hair! "mommy, you smell!" my daughter told me one day.

I do pasteurize the milk immediatly after filtering.

[Rechellef]

I use the filters that I bought from Hoeggers and find them much faster than coffee filters, but that is my personal experience. Plus, I find there is less waste with a tiny round disc than a huge coffee filter. However, coffee filters will get the job done.

It is your preference to pasturize? Are you doing it for bottle babies to avoid CAE? We drink our milk raw as it keeps all the healthy natural enzymes, protiens and vitamin D intact. After drinking raw milk for so long, I did pasturize a batch and tried it - didn't like it and neither did my injured lamb who is being raised on the stuff.

[wmsff]

At first I used the paper coffee filters, but then I got the paper milk filters from caprine supply. They are OK, but still a bit slow. I was talking about using the permenant SS coffee filter you would just rinse out and resuse (for the milk, I plan on cleaning just like my other milking items and dip in boiling water).

Regarding pasteurizing, I guess I am just scared. One of my does is a rescue situation, and she is not as healthy as she could be. In fact, my vet is coming out tomorrow to examine her and perhaps test a second time for CAE. She has a cough and swollen knees.

I asked a question recently regarding goat milk and human illness issues (allergies, constipation, ear infections and acid reflux in my kids) and several people commented that raw would be better than pasteurized because it gets rid of the good stuff along with the potential bad stuff. Once my goats are very healthy, I will consider raw, but just not now.

[~PrairieGirl~]

I use one of the gold coffee filters for milking. I cut a whole in a plastic lid that my filter sits in and then the plastic lid goes on my ss bucket and I milk into that and just pour into jars when I reach the house. That way I don't get anything floating in the milk.

[nehimama]

I also use one of the gold reusable coffee filters for milking. Used ONLY for milking, of course! The mesh is so fine, that I've NEVER found any thing in the milk.

[CaliannG]

I bought a reusable coffee filter JUST for milking recently. Works great.

[mygoat]

The milk filters go slow, but if you lift the filter and tap it down on the jar, it will go faster for a bit. I keep tapping and refilling, and it goes super fast.

[wolffeathers]

When we milked our cow, someone told us about the reusable filters. So we went to Wally world and bought one for like $4. It worked great, never a stray hair or piece of dirt to be found after straining.

[robinthegeek]

I filter my milk with the reusable coffee filter, placed inside my canning funnel, it works great!

[Alice In TX/MO]

http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-GTF-...2866580&sr=1-2

[wmsff]

Thanks again all. Alice, that is the one I have

Again, the way I clean it is with soap and water then dip in simmering pot; the same I use for pasteurizing the milk (I put the milk in one pot then that pot into simmering water). Should I do something different to clean? Or is that suffecient.

[nehimama]

Originally Posted by robinthegeek

I filter my milk with the reusable coffee filter, placed inside my canning funnel, it works great!

Exactly! It works out just right, doesn't it? I also use glass coffee carafes (from thrift shops) to milk into. I choose / buy the carafes that allow the cone-shaped filter to fit into the throat of the carafe without falling into it.

[nehimama]

I used to be able to find fine mesh cheese or yogurt filters, which worked extremely well, too. Nowadays I can't find the cone-shaped ones, and the square ones won't fit into a canning funnel.