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 Welcome to Cedar Valley Cheese

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 Store your source for over three

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 hundred varieties of Wisconsin

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 cheese We're proud to be a part

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 of the industry that ranks Wisconsin

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 as the number one cheese provider

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 and second in milk production But

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 have you ever wondered how cheese is

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 actually made Well today

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 we're going to show you it all starts with

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 the milk every day We produce

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 over one hundred seventy thousand

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 gallons of milk which produces

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 over one hundred fifty five thousand

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 pounds of cheese The milk has picked

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 up from local farms and transported

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 back to our factory way

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 receive over twenty semi tanker

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 loads of milk every day The

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 milk is stored in sixty thousand

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 gallon silos for up to two

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 and a half days It's pasteurized

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 at one hundred sixty one degrees for

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 sixteen plus seconds to kill

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 any harmful bacteria and then

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 cools back down to ninety eight

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 degrees After that the milk heads

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 to a separator where some of the cream

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 is removed and then the milk goes

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 to the cheese vat In the VAT Starter

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 culture is added along with Renate

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 which coagulates and thickens

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 the milk and occurred once the

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 vat is finished cutting into the Kurds

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 the way separates from occurred

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 and we heat the vat to one hundred

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 twelve degrees to firm up the curd

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 After cooking the vets are drained

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 to the finishing tables The Kurds

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 stays on the finishing tables

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 with some of the way until it reaches

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 the proper pH The way is drained

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 completely off and cold water

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 is added to the curd to slow

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 The P H way heads off to

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 the way room where the water is removed

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 through the reverse osmosis unit

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 The way is condensed into higher

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 solids and sent off to the way

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 plant where the protein is extracted

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 and used in baby formula energy

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 drinks and pharmaceutical products

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 From the tables the curd goes

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 to the cooker Cooker consists

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 of hot water with augers that

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 stretched the curd into a taffy

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 like moldy cheese The cheese

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 that comes out of the cooker goes

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 into another set of augers that

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 pushed the molded cheese into forms

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 From there we could make six

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 eight or twenty pound blocks of

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 mozzarella cheese We also do

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 provolone cheese which is round

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 in size and eleven pounds

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 after the cheese is molded into

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 shape and cool down for about

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 fifteen minutes The cheese box

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 dropped down into the brine canal

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 which is filled with saltwater cheese

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 floats down canals and distort

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 anywhere from six to forty eight

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 hours After that the cheese leaves

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 the Brian canals and heads into

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 the packaging room in the packaging

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 room The cheeses either individual

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 wrapped or bulk started after

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 the cheeses boxed and weighed

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 It goes into the cooler for storage

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 Cheese can sit in the cooler anywhere

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 from one to thirty days Some

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 of the cheese after it ages

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 goes into our shredding department where

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 we converted into five ten

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 and fifteen pound bags of shredded

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 or dice cheese And that's how

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 we make our cheese Interested in

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 buying some Come visit the Cedar

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 Valley Cheese Store located

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 just outside Random Lake Wisconsin

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 on Highway fifty seven to see

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 a full selection of our cheeses

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 as a family owned cheese factory

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 Founded by Ralph Hiller in nineteen

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 forty seven the company is currently

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 owned and managed by Geoff Hiller

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 who represents the third generation

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 of the Hillary family Our best selling

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 products include string cheese cheddar

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 cheese curds mozzarella cheddar

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 pepper Jack Colby jack provolone

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 velvet tano Swiss

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 and brick are string cheese has

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 been the winner of the Wisconsin State

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 Fair Seal of Excellence award

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 Numerous times of provolone

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 and mozzarella have received red ribbons

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 as well While our store features

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 plenty of our factory produced cheeses

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 and cheese trays we also ship

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 our cheese all over the US

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 with some even exported into

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 Canada and Mexico Much

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 of the cheese is used by national

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 food chains frozen entree manufacturers

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 frozen pizza manufacturers

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 and the shredding and slicing industry

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 In addition to selling cheese in our

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 store we also offer other Wisconsin

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 made products such as ice cream

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 milk jams and jellies sausage

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 wine and even cheese Head apparel

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 Way also offered gift boxes

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 because the gift of cheese is something

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 that can be enjoyed by anyone Visit

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 our online cheese store or come

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 see us in person today at

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 Cedar Valley Cheese Store