FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
LACTOMETER, LACTOMETRE
Excerpts from Bender, Arnold E. 1990. Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology. Butterworths, Boston.
Floating device used to measure the specific gravity of milk (1.207-1.035)
Webber Comment:
Some of you may wonder why one cares. I had an Uncle in Kansas who ran a Grade A dairy farm. He said that the milk inspector would come by and look at cleanliness and test the milk with a lactometer. He NEVER did add water but some milk producers tried to add water to their milk as it mean more gallons and more money. The lactometer could identify this.
Excerpted and Adapted from Escoffier, A. and P.H. Gilbert. Edited by Charlotte Turgeon and Nina Froud. 1961. The World Authority. Larousse Gastronomique. The Encyclopedia of Food, Wine & Cookery.
is a graduated densimeter which shows the density of milk, from which the cream content can be calculated.
