Milk is poured into a cheese vat for heating and pasteurizing before its transformed to cheese.

A strainer device for draining off whey from a cheese vat comprises an outlet for the whey and a substantially circularly shaped strainer disc (3) arranged in the outlet.

Abraham Aellig has just milked his Simmental cows, and now, it’s time for breakfast while the milk is being heated up in the cheese vat.

This strainer disc (3) is rotatably arranged in the wall (2) of the cheese vat about an axis of rotation (7) extending perpendicular to said wall and being connected to a motor for rotating the strainer disc (3).

In a particularly favourable embodiment, each of the 96 wells of a commercially available microtitre plate is employed as a cheese vat, allowing for the production of 96 cheeses in one run.