Creamery. Sarah Bulvan / Getty Images via Canva Pro.
Creamery is a term used to describe a company that buys milk from farmers to make dairy products, such as cheese, butter, ice cream.
This term is contrasted with “farmhouse”, which means that a farmer uses milk from his/her own herd to make dairy products with.
Some creameries may offer sales on site to consumers, and sometimes, tours or other events for the public.
Synonymous terms are “cheese factory” or “butter factory”, though typically creamery tends to indicate smaller operations rather than a large factory complex on the scale of something that, for instance, Kraft might have for its mass cheese productions.
Creameries often support many local farmers by sourcing milk from them.
See also: Farmhouse Cheese
Creamery at Llandilo, Wales. Steve Barnes / geograph.co.uk / 2021 / CC BY-SA 2.0
Other cheese technical terms
- Affinage
- Casein
- Cooked-Curd Cheeses
- Double-Cream Cheese
- Fat Content of Cheeses
- Longhorn Cheese
- Pate (of a Cheese)
- Pressed-Curd Cheeses
- Raw Curd Cheeses
- Rennet
- Semi-Cooked Curd Cheeses
- Skim-Milk Cheeses
- Smear-Ripened Cheeses
- Stretched Curd Cheeses
- Sweet Curd Cheeses
- Triple-Cream Cheese
- Truckle
- Turophile
- Washed-Curd Cheeses