Dairies: The Best Products

First of all let's start by explaining what is meant by dairies. Perhaps not everyone knows that this is the name given to both the dairy factory and the company producing dairy products. In Italy, especially in the south, in the Cilento areas, it is possible to find numerous very famous dairies. Here you can buy typical products derived from milk or taste them on site, but you can also visit farms and observe the production processes with which the products themselves are prepared.

Dairies: some information

Various operations take place inside a dairy factory, such as pasteurisation.

When we think of dairy products, the first thing that comes to mind is cows. But did you know that there is also a category for goats? Milk is an interesting topic because it refers to both animal husbandry practices and how these animals produce milk!

Determining which type or type depends on who produces them - whether they are sheep (goats) with udder-shaped udders used exclusively by humans as food.

Milk here is the main element from which all the products offered for sale within this type of company are made. For this reason, inside a dairy it will be possible to observe how milk is processed. These processes give life to some of the most popular products on our tables every day.

Dairy products

When we refer to dairy products we are generally talking about dairy products. These are nothing more than products born from the processing of milk. For example: cream, yogurt, mozzarella, ricotta and much more. Each of these products is made using different equipment and using specific types of preparations. Each process requires attention and time and in some dairies it is even possible to observe how the magic happens.

The preparation of cheese, for example, occurs through the coagulation of a milk protein, the so-called casein, but also of the fat part of the milk: rennet. We must distinguish two types of cheese: fresh ones and mature ones.

The cheese you eat is made from curdling milk. Casein, a type of protein found in all mammals, produces the coagulation reaction that causes this transformation and forms into stringy or smooth varieties depending on how much time remains after cooling with other factors involved such as acidity levels
Microscopic observation during the phase transition highlights three stages: solid (curdled), semi-solid (melted)

Ricotta, on the other hand, is made from the excess production of what is used to prepare the cheese: the curd.

While the cream is made up of the fatty part of the milk processed through a centrifugation process and in turn, the butter comes from further processing of the cream.

These are among the most popular products in dairy production. If you are near a dairy farm, don't hesitate to pay a visit. Very often these facilities are open to the public. Here it is possible not only to taste their typical products but also to purchase them.

Some dairies in Cilento are famous for the goodness and authenticity of their products and ingredients. Furthermore, here it is possible to observe a large part of the production processes underlying the creation of some items such as mozzarella or yogurt. In short, if you are passionate about similar products and are interested in seeing first-hand the production processes through which they pass before reaching your tables, we recommend that you do not miss a visit to one of these facilities.

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