Understanding Cream & Making Butter

This video teaches you what the ingredient makeup is within heavy whipping cream, how butter is made, how much butter fat that cream contains, as well as the original preparation of buttermilk.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Fresh Whole Milk
• learn
• Whipped Butter
• Heavy Cream
• food

[TheProphetNabob]

We make butter with Devon cream and a hand-crank churn. It's wonderful, but it doesn't have that "moldable" consistency of other butters. It is thick like lard instead of granular. The granular butters allow it to be pressed into a wooden mold to be formed into a nice picturesque block.

Does anyone know why some butters come out granular while others are "greasy"?

[TheSeasonedCook]

@TheProphetNabob Remember, when you make home made butter you are seperating the fat from everything else. The fat itself is greasy and in order to avoid that you would have to incorporate some milk solids to make it feel more commercial.

[666lordofabyss666]

this is a noob question, but would you be able to make butter with Mexican Creme. since its a bit thinker and a little sweet as well..?? Thankz in Advance :)

[TheSeasonedCook]

@666lordofabyss666 - I don't see why not but I've never tried it. It's really all about

the butterfat content in the cream. If it is at least 25% fat then you

should be able to do it. After all, cream is cream no matter where it's

from.

[MJoubes]

Would you be able to put herbs and spices into this while its mixing to form spiced butters?

[TheSeasonedCook]

After the butter is made then simply remove

it from the buttermilk and mix in whatever flavors you want in a separate

bowl. Remember that different liquors, herbs garlic etc, are all within

range. You will then have what is called a "compound butter" that can be

refrigerated or frozen for a later use.

[KevKevAllen]

You seem to know what your doing, but WOW do you put your machine/bowl through some abuse!

[BowmanFarm]

That's the same mixer we use to make butter from our Jersey cow's cream.

[thonza78]

thanks for the video, nice~

[cestrc]

with this machine, we can save some money on buying butter, thanks for sharing =)

[snozmom4]

Chef! Thank you so much - tried it last week and someone had told me to use half and half....I whipped it for over an hour! I ended up with about a teaspoon of butter - I'll be trying again....Great video!

[elliethebee]

Oh, so *that's* what buttermilk is....