Salt-Town

[ezetta0041]

I was in Salzburg last weekend for my boss's 50th birthday party. The guy, Gerhard Plasonig, is one of the board members of WoodWelding, so he's not my current boss, but I've worked for him before, and I've remained somewhat involved in the WoodWelding projects here, so I garnered an invitation. Unfortunately, Jamie had to leave for the US the

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[colonel_wuppass]

Jesus that's a lot of milk. I assume there are a lot of byproducts, or is the lost weight all water? If there is other stuff what happens to it? I wonder calorically speaking how much is lost between 1050 gallons of milke and 77 lbs of cheese?

Also, Geiger rocks. I haven't seen all of his stuff, but what I have seen is super sweet. Very weird but very cool and interesting to look at. I wouldn't call him a artist who will be know for all time, but for pop-art I'd say he's up there. And really isn't all art about deep set sexual issues? That's what Freud said right.

[ezetta0041]

Well, I figured it out for you (since you obviously didn't want to make the effort). 1 cup of fresh whole milk has 150 calories. This means 2400 per gallon, or about 635 per liter. 4,000 liters means 2,540,000 calories' worth of milk goes into making one wheel of cheese. That same cheese supposedly has 62 calories per 15-gram piece. Extrapolating wildly, this gives about 144,600 calories per 35kg wheel.

After looking all this up, I realized I was off by a factor of 10 - it's 400 liters (105 gal) not 4,000, so the milk calorie count is something like 254,000. I guess that makes more sense. You still lose a considerable number of calories in the process, however.