This is really funny. My wife and I watched all of New Scandinavian Cooking over a few months and there was an episode where he made butter. It blew our minds at how simple it was. We had no idea!<p>So we bought a couple of liters of cream (35% fat), put it in the stand mixer and made butter. There's a Serious Eats page about it.<p>The butter we made was better than what we normally buy. We live in Switzerland so the normal grocery store butter is very good. Our butter had less water in it (you can tell in a frying pan) and more flavor. Plus we take the resulting buttermilk and make ricotta cheese and then we take the leftover whey and make Norwegian cheese (more like fudge). So we get three products from one batch of cream. The butter comes out to be about 20 cents cheaper per 250g than store bought and then the ricotta and "fudge" are free, so financially you come out ahead. The cleanup is a bit of a pain though.<p>We've also made cultured butter from crème fraiche. It's tasty but even when the crème fraiche is on sale it's still like 2x the cost of using cream so probably not worth it other than gifts and special occasions. We made mandarin sorbet with the sour buttermilk after the crème fraiche butter and that was excellent.<p>When I tell old Swiss people (people in their 70s/80s) that we make butter they think it's hilarious. They tell me about how when they were kids their parents made their own butter and also at parties/gatherings the parents would give the kids a jar of cream and it was their job to shake it and pass it around until it was butter.<p>If you have an hour on the weekend and if you have a stand mixer I suggest just trying it. Start with the balloon whisk and when the peaks start forming switch to the paddle watch it because when the butter forms it happens quick and you get a big clump of butter rattling around in the mixer knocking it off balance. It takes maybe 25 minutes and then you have to wash it in ice water, mold it, then clean up. About an hour.
My wife and I have occasionally made our own butter for years now... one thing people always forget to mention is that it goes bad really quickly. The trick is either to cut it up into chunks and freeze most of it and the remainder you keep in the fridge/defrost later will last about 3 days. Or you can add salt after you've done the separation but this does of course mean you now have salted butter... this will last up to two weeks usually.
Roughly how much butter do you get from a certain amount of cream?<p>Our butter prices in NZ are ridiculous right now (as our domestic prices are driven by export prices), so I'm wondering if making it from cream would be slightly more cost effective ( assuming my time has no value lol).
In preschool our teacher brought in a jar of cream that was passed around and everyone took turns shaking it. Then we had buttered bread. I believe this was done for thanksgiving.
“So, are you exercising much?”<p>“Oh yes doc, I get out for a run most days of the week.”<p>“Wonderful news, got to look after your heart.”<p>“Yeah, and with my new butter churning bags, not only do I get to stay fit, but I also consume ungodly amounts of butter!”<p>“Sorry what”
This is amazing but even as a runner who loves to make my own "processed" food this really reads like a submarine article for the dairy industry.<p>"I used to be vegan, but you know I just can't liveeeeeeee without that real butter!!!!!!!"
The idea of butter being good doesn't strictly seem like it demands a conspiracy theory.
Some people call themselves vegans but will still use animal products that they feel are ethical. Also, some vegans do occasionally use animal products just because they want to.<p>I don’t think it’s a conspiracy but it’s weird that the vegan topic even came up in this article because it is immaterial to the main topic.
Good competition for Fatih Karakaya (@runners_pie)!<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DCuSImnocL7" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/p/DCuSImnocL7</a> (November 23, 2024)<p>> Fatih is a master pastry chef and marathon runner, and he baked a Sachertorte during his marathon at the Ring Running Series at the Hockenheimring.<p>> Fatih ist Konditormeister und Marathonläufer und hat während seines Marathons bei den Ring Running Series am Hockenheimring eine Sachertorte gebacken.
the next fad fringe sport.<p>seriously, if you can do butter, you should also be able to do ice cream, with some ingenuity.
There's a guy (insta: trailswithzach) that did successfully make ice cream like this
Naw, you make Ice Cream on car wheels. Everyone knows that
> “It was probably 40 degrees outside, but there’s a lot of heat going on in the back,”<p>Would this is safe to do on a sunny warm weather? Would body heat plus the sun ruin the cream?
> Would this is safe to do on a sunny warm weather? Would body heat plus the sun ruin the cream?<p>It's fairly safe. You can leave dairy products unrefrigerated for an uncomfortable amount of time :) Butter, in particular, can last for days outside a fridge.<p>The bacteria that tends to infest dairy products will usually (but not always) turn it into something tasty like yogurt.<p>Don't get me wrong, you can definitely get sick from spoiled dairy products, but it's not a 100% thing.
> Would this is safe to do on a sunny warm weather?<p>I’d be more concerned about having plastic bags against my skin when I’m sweating heavily than the effect the heat would have on the butter tbh. Hot weather is an excuse to wear less clothing, not wrap yourself in ziploc bags
> This tracks with the science; according to Scientific American, room-temperature cream turns to butter much faster than cold cream because the molecules move more quickly at higher temperatures. Of course, if the temperature gets too high, everything will just melt, so their experiment probably wouldn’t have worked on a summer run.
I assume they shamelessly were talking in Fahrenheit degrees.
On warmer days you could swap doing the washing for food preparation!
Of course she's from Oregon. This is close to the most Oregon activity imaginable.
You know, I don't mean this to be rude in any way, but what kept going through my mind as I read this was "I wonder if they drive a Subaru Outback."<p>And then I clicked the Instagram link and I'm almost positive that is a hunter green Subaru Outback.
I laughed - but I don't want more of this