How could i make a milk powder at Home???!
Do i need to buy any machines, equipment or chemicals to do so???
sincere, advise will be highly appreciated.
Answers: Can anyone suggest me, how could i make milk powder at Home, which's cost effective. When excess of milk available , it may be good idea to convert it into milk powder & preserve it for later use. At the present situation, it become more and more expensive & unaffordable for a common men to buy either a fresh milk or milk powder from the markets.
Do i need to buy any machines, equipment or chemicals to do so???
sincere, advise will be highly appreciated.
Powdered milk is usually made from the milk left behind after butter has been churned out of it. It is then spray-dried in large heated containers, that would be quite a lot of equipment.
Alternatively, the milk can be dried by drum drying. Milk is applied as a thin film to the surface of a heated drum, and the dried milk solids are then scraped off with a knife. Powdered milk made by drum drying tends to have a cooked flavour, due to caramelization caused by greater heat exposure.
Yet another process is the use of freeze drying, freeze drying has the advantage of preserving many nutrients in milk compared to drum drying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_mi...
You could try to dry your own milk, but it would likely require heat and time, and the resultant product would likely taste cooked. It would certainly be edible, but I would not expect it to be greatly cost effective.
Freezing milk would be a better alternative, I believe. The freezing causes the milk to separate, so it is no longer homogenized, but it is still nutritious and can be used in cooking. It might work better to freeze it, then thaw it and let the milkfat come to the top, skim that off to make butter from, and drink the skim milk. If you are starting with non-homogenized milk, just separate the cream from the milk, make butter from that cream, and freeze the skimmed milk.
Making cheese from excess milk might be an even better solution, but that does require some equipment cheesecloth, etc.) and the cheese starter or enzymes must be purchased for a reliable product. It is also a time consuming and smelly proposition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheesemakin...
*Its a very lengthy & complicated process !!
Plus, its not commercially viable for home use only !!!!
It will be cheaper for u to buy fresh milk on a regular basis ~~~!!!!
PS : if it is soooo expensive, then why buy so much of excess milk ~~~~~ I wonder !