CHEESE POWER
The French are using whey left over from making Beaufort cheese as fuel for electric power stations. Tr`es brillant!
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Whey to go, Froggie!
Elmer has been using left over milk to make glue for decades!
Ok.. for you citified folk who don't know diddly-squat about farm stuff - whey is what you've got when you remove all the cream from milk. It's the watery stuff in cottage cheese (known once as "curds & whey"). It's 0% milk (which isn't, really milk). It's the stuff dairy farmers get paid for by weight but make less money on than cream.
Let me see if I can put that last one into better perspective.... Dairy companies pay farmers for both cream and whey (milk) but at greatly different rates. Cream pays the big bucks. So, if we extrapolate that and put it on the dairy shelf in Piggly-Wiggly's... you're paying the same $$ for 3.25% milk and 0%milk whey. Feeling ripped off yet?
Elmer has been using left over milk to make glue for decades!
Ok.. for you citified folk who don't know diddly-squat about farm stuff - whey is what you've got when you remove all the cream from milk. It's the watery stuff in cottage cheese (known once as "curds & whey"). It's 0% milk (which isn't, really milk). It's the stuff dairy farmers get paid for by weight but make less money on than cream.
Let me see if I can put that last one into better perspective.... Dairy companies pay farmers for both cream and whey (milk) but at greatly different rates. Cream pays the big bucks. So, if we extrapolate that and put it on the dairy shelf in Piggly-Wiggly's... you're paying the same $$ for 3.25% milk and 0%
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/22/15 at 01:41 AM
This article reminds me of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/us/wisconsin-finds-another-role-for-cheese-de-icing-roads.html
Basically they were using brine, which is a salty by-product of mozzarella and provolone cheese to de-ice roads in Wisconsin. Especially brilliant as they had a hard time getting rid of they by-product efficiently so using it on roads as a de-icer solves two problems. I wonder if they are still doing that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/us/wisconsin-finds-another-role-for-cheese-de-icing-roads.html
Basically they were using brine, which is a salty by-product of mozzarella and provolone cheese to de-ice roads in Wisconsin. Especially brilliant as they had a hard time getting rid of they by-product efficiently so using it on roads as a de-icer solves two problems. I wonder if they are still doing that.
Posted by Fluffy Bunny Slippers on 12/22/15 at 06:11 AM
It still ends up in the environment when dumped on icy roads.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/22/15 at 08:10 AM
And the brine helps rust out cars, helping out neighboring Michigan!
Posted by crc on 12/22/15 at 09:23 AM
But it's ORGANIC Patty. Water & salt the primary ingredients of hoo-mans.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/22/15 at 09:34 AM
So is rattlesnake venom, organic that is.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/22/15 at 11:14 AM
But hoo-mans and snakes aren't compatible.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/22/15 at 11:21 AM
A moose licked a guy's car clean because it was covered in road salt:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/12060913/Pictures-of-the-day-21-December-2015.html?frame=3531882
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/12060913/Pictures-of-the-day-21-December-2015.html?frame=3531882
Posted by Phideaux on 12/22/15 at 02:21 PM
Cute picture! 😊
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/22/15 at 03:05 PM
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