Cheese Factory Tour - 22 Jul 2005

As part of our Wisconsin trip, Beth and I went to visit a cheese factory. Beth was fond of the ecological aspects; I was more impressed with the cheese curds. Mmmm...


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A Cheese Curd
The most important lesson of my trip is that fresh cheese curds are tasty. Mmm...
Cheese Posters
Illustrating their water treatment systems, mostly.
Floating Cow
It's like Cincinnati's flying pigs, except more plastic.
Cheese Creation, Step One
That's mostly just milk being mixed in there, with a few congealing agents. (You can see my car in the reflection, too.)
Cheese Creation, Step Two
After the milk stage, the water is drained out and you get a whole bunch of cheese curds.
Cheese Creation, Step Three
The cheese curds are then dried and stirred, before they're ready to eat. (Mmm!)
Cheese Creation, Step Four
The curds are then inserted into the blocks on the right, which are then sold. Then I eat them. The end.
Happy Daddy
The Master Cheesemaker got to play with his daughter through the glass. Everybody was happy.
Cow Milk Tanks
An interesting color scheme to paint the milk tanks...
Milk Tanks and Tim
I'm glad these didn't remind me of Gateway.
Purification Room
This was definitely Beth's favorite part.
Tropical Plants
There were 12 tanks, I believe, that they purified the water through.
Living Machine: Clarifier
The water here was just filthy, straight from the whey.
Living Machine: Tank 1 & 2
There wasn't much to see here.
Open Aerobic Tank 1
The plague here kindof explained what was going on. I think that I took the picture just to see if Dad wanted to see it.
Open Aerobic Tank 2
This one had a lot of foam and ickiness, but stuff was growing in there.
Ecological Fluidized Bed 2
This was nearly the goal state: you could put (some) animals in there and not have them die immediately!
Mostly-Clean Water
It does seem to work, or at least they're doing a good job of pretending.
Final Water Step
The water comes out and enters a local creek; I guess it's clean enough to not destroy everything around them, or someone would have complained.
More Plants
Waiting to be tossed in, or sold? I wasn't sure.
Metal Sunflowers
The most ecologically safe of all!

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