Eldorado Dairy Company

Eldorado, ON (Nearby: Madoc, Marmora, Springbrook, Tweed, Gilmour)

Main

15827 Highway 62
Eldorado, Ontario
K0K 1Y0

Phone : (613) 473-2973
Fax : (613) 473-4888
E-Mail : Click Here to E-Mail us
Outside Web Page : http://www.eldoradodairy.com
Outside Web Page : http://www.goldencheese.ca
Your Host(s) : Mike Healey

Tour Group Person Limit: 20

Driving Directions:

• 8 km. north of Madoc on Hwy 62...west side of Hwy. Close to the Hwy 7 / Hwy 62 intersection.

Season Details:

• Winter Hours 9am - 5 pm, 7 days a week. Summer Hours Victoria Day - Oct 31 8am - 8 pm, 7 days a week

Description From Owner:

• Welcome to Eldorado! Store Outlet offering ice cream, milkshakes, curd, snacks, gifts..ask about custom Cheese Trays ~ Mail Ordering ~ Fundraising ~ Gift Baskets!
• The Montreal-headquartered Eldorado Dairy Company Ltd. has received rare permission from the Canadian Dairy Commission for an annual quota of milk to produce a wide variety of ripened cheeses at its plant near Belleville, Ont.
• The company is under the supervision of Montreal’s Vaad Ha’ir and the cheese will bear the MK hechsher.
• The Canadian dairy industry is tightly regulated and, in Ontario, it’s virtually impossible for a new cheese company to obtain a milk quota, unless it can show it will fill a niche not met by any other Canadian business.
• Eldorado asked for and was granted three to five million litres of milk per year, which will enable it to produce 300 to 500 tons of cheese.
• This amount could be increased in time if the demand is there, said Letourneau, who is also chief of commercial operations for the commission, a Crown corporation that co-ordinates federal and provincial dairy policies.
• Rosenberg bought and updated the Eldorado Cheese Factory, in the hamlet of Eldorado in Madoc Township. The formerly non-kosher plant, founded in 1951, has been closed since 1999.
• Rosenberg has retained one of its award-winning cheesemakers Brad Reid, who has almost 20 years of experience in cheese-making and running two plants.
• The average Canadian eats 12 kilograms of cheese a year. I would think Jews eat somewhat less because of not mixing meat and dairy, so I put it at 8 kilograms a year.”
• Among the products Eldorado will be making are various kinds of cheddar and mozzarella, cheese curds, emmenthal, edam, colby, Monterey Jack, muenster, provolone, havarti, Swiss, gouda and farmers cheese.
• Cholov Yisroel cheese is supervised full-time by mashgichim from the time the cows are milked through the milk’s transport, processing and packaging. Eldorado is being supplied by a farm near Ottawa.
• Instead of rennet, which is usually derived from a cow’s stomach lining, Eldorado is using enzymes to curdle the milk, Rosenberg said.
• Cholov Yisroel represents about 70 per cent of the kosher cheese market in Canada, Rosenberg said.
• Rosenberg acknowledges that there may be some resistance from consumers who have been used to eating the same (imported) cholov Yisroel brands perhaps all their lives, but thinks they will be won over by the quality of his products.

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