"Pasteurization"
Have
you ever seen so many pipes in one room? Those are all the pipes that take
the milk from the giant mixing tank to the pasteurizer , to the
homogenizer and then into the bottles.
Do you know what pasteurization is? What a big word! A French scientist named Louis Pasteur realized that milk needed to be heated to sterilize it. Heating it to just the right temperature, for just the right length of time, assures that it is healthy milk and that it doesn't change its great flavor. The cool thing is that, here at Longmont Dairy's processing plant, there is a special machine that pasteurizes the milk perfectly.
The
milk is pumped through a series of hot and cold plates or. The hot plates
heat the milk to 172 degrees for a short time. Then the cold plates chill
the milk down to 36 degrees in no time at all. And the milk still tastes
great….especially on cereal!