Author Topic: Milking buckets (Read 2282 times)

Bumblebear · « **on:** August 21, 2012, 09:00:41 pm »

I have decided to start sterilising our stuff in case we just want to wash and go rather than putting on the (3 hour!) v hot dishwasher cycle. So I bought a load of Milton but it says not to be used on metal

What (if anything) do other people use to sterilise milking equipment?!

Anke · « **Reply #1 on:** August 21, 2012, 10:44:48 pm »

I don't sterilise regularly, and if needed would rinse the metal buckets with boiling hot water. If my everyday plastic buckets/jugs start to smell, I use Milton.
For the machine I use Capriclense.

ballingall · « **Reply #2 on:** August 21, 2012, 10:48:32 pm »

Boiling hot water like Anke. Washing the milking buckets occasionally in the dishwasher if you have one brings them up well too, and you can set the temperature....

Beth

sokel · « **Reply #3 on:** August 22, 2012, 04:00:56 am »

We have a milking machine that we never use as I prefer to milk by hand so use the drum of steriliser that we have for the machine on the buckets

wytsend · « **Reply #4 on:** August 22, 2012, 06:25:39 am »

Get Dairy Hypochlorite from any Agricultural merchant ............... it tis very cheap and the correct item to use on dairy items. Lasts for ages ....my last one has only just emptied after 2 years !!!!
I milk by machine and of course is washed out daily. The is another product called milk stone remover............how ever well you wash the buckets etc, milk stone still appears. Temperature doesn't appear to have any effect on it.
I had a fully automated parlour some years ago and this had an automated wash cycle. But even with this......... a milk stone wash had to be used.

Lesley Silvester · « **Reply #5 on:** August 23, 2012, 11:34:01 pm »

My milking bucket goes in the dish washer if it's going on, usually once a day, and is washed by hand using very hot water, washing up liquid and a brush, then well rinsed in cold water.