Thursday, July 31, 2008

Creamery conundrum


The dairy farmer traded a lawn mower for this old cream separator. "Runs good," he was told, but it's filthy. Any suggestions on how best to clean it?

3 comments:

  1. Erm - vinegar?

    (Wild guess, based solely on the fact that vinegar seems to do a good job with most everything in my house...)

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  2. It would be a much larger scale, but he could always do what I did when I was given a disgustingly filthy pasta maker. I took it apart and cleaned each part thoroughly with lightly soapy water and a toothbrush. I took a photo each time I took a part off in case I forgot how to put it back together.

    It probably has a lot of greasy fatty stuff coating the inside of it, so vinegar alone may not cut it.

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  3. Thanks for the ideas! I wish I could just take it to the auto place and have them dip the whole thing (they do that, you know). But engine-cleaning solvents probably aren't food-grade.

    Taking pictures is a great idea, Tim!

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