Creamery

For the location, see Creamery, West Virginia.

Cheese on sale at a creamery in the San Francisco ferry building

In a dairy, the creamery is the location of cream processing. Cream is separated from whole milk; pasteurization is done to the skimmed milk and cream separately. Whole milk for sale has had some cream returned to the skimmed milk.

The creamery is the source of butter from a dairy. Cream is an emulsion of fat-in-water; the process of churning causes a phase inversion to butter which is an emulsion of water-in-fat. Excess liquid as buttermilk is drained off in the process. Modern creameries are automatically controlled industries, but the traditional creamery needed skilled workers. Traditional tools included the butter churn and Scotch hands.

The term "creamery" is sometimes used in retail trade as a place to buy milk products such as yogurt and ice cream. Under the banner of a creamery one might find a store also stocking pies and cakes or even a coffeehouse with confectionery.

References

Hunziker, O F (1920). The Butter Industry, Prepared for Factory, School and Laboratory. LaGrange, IL: author.
Kanes K. Rajah & Ken J. Burgess editors (1991) Milk Fat: Production, Technology, Utilization, Society of Dairy Technology.
R.K. Robinson editor (1994) Modern Dairy Technology, 2nd edition, Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0-412-53520-3 .
R.A. Wilbey (1994) "Production of butter and dairy based spreads", in Robinson (1994).

Butter

List of butters

Types of butter

Dishes featuring butter

Butter-based sauces	Beurre monté Beurre noir Beurre noisette Café de Paris sauce

Compound butter	Beurre blanc Beurre à la bourguignonne Beurre Maître d'Hôtel Truffle butter

Other	Butter tea Egg butter List of butter dishes

Butter paraphernalia

Butter industry

Butter in culture

Miscellaneous

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Creamery

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