Manufacturing 42 varieties of premium cheese in the heart of America’s Dairyland not only takes a ton of high-quality raw milk — 1.8 million pounds a day, or 534 million pounds annually, to be exact, in the case of Marshfield, Wis.-based Nasonville Dairy.
There are no secrets to making award-winning cheeses. Just buy the freshest milk and hire the best cheesemakers. Tillamook invites tourists to see the process from an observation deck inside the processing plant.
It is bad enough to have one co-worker looking over your shoulder while you are trying to do your job. Imagine total strangers watching you work. That’s the situation in Tillamook, Ore., where, over the course of a year, 1 million tourists stop at the Tillamook County Creamery Association factory, climb the steps to a second-story observation deck, and watch the cheesemaking process unfold below them.