When manufacturing different types of butter, it is very important to exactly reproduce the respective characteristics of each kind.
In order to sustain consistent quality of spreadable butter, ingredients like rapeseed oil, water, and brine are metered flexibly and fully automatically with ecoflow pumps.
That is because LEWA pumps do not only meet hygienic requirements but have an accuracy of ± 1 percent even during long running times. The exact reproduction of characteristics such as a refined salty taste is guaranteed even after yearlong use of a system.
For metering ingredients in butter production LEWA offers the following solution:
How is butter produced and which kinds exist?
Butter is made from pasteurized cream. Therefore, milk is skimmed in a centrifugal separator within a few seconds. Afterwards, the cream is pasteurized and stored for about 20 hours. In the butter churn, which is comprised of a rod, a cylinder, and a kneader, the cream is beaten, and the butter is separated and kneaded. Then the butter is molded in a molding machine and packaged. In order to make 1 kg of butter, approximately 22 liters of milk are necessary. A byproduct of buttering is butter milk.
There are various types of butter:
Butter made from a fermented cream is known as cultured butter. The aroma that is created through the process gives butter a fresh and nutty taste. Sweet cream butter is made from unfermented cream. To get mild-soured butter, lactic acid is added to fresh cream butter after buttering.
All categories of butter are sold in both salted and unsalted forms. Either granular salt or strong brine are added to salted butter during processing. In addition to enhanced flavor, salt acts as a preservative. For the production of spreadable butter vegetable oil is often incorporated in butter.
LEWA supports producers and plant construction companies in the food and beverage industries with pumps and systems for homogenization and dispersion, as well as for other processing operations in the food industry. We work with you to plan all the important process-related operations, such as conveying, metering, mixing, heating, and cooling so that you can process your raw product cost-effectively.
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