You guys...you should totally make your own butter!

[Anonymous]

It is so easy, and dammit, so delicious. Literally all you need is a stand mixer and heavy cream (and big salt crystals, imho).
Find a youtube video and try it out. Bonus that you also get buttermilk!

[Anonymous]

On xmas, my mom brought over 2L of whipping cream that expired on the 24th. I left it in the fridge basically until it went bad I wish I would have made butter with it! Especially at the cost of butter these days!

Do you salt it? Or just let it whip?

[Anonymous]

Last time I made my own butter it was by accident.

I was making Chantilly cream, beating by hand, and it just wasn't forming peaks. I kept going, then within a few seconds it turned grainy, then a few seconds later it started clumping into butter. Never happened to me before -- don't know what I did wrong. So I went with it and collected the butter.

Butter with vanilla and loads of sugar does not taste good.

[Anonymous]

I have. It’s fun. It’s fine. Kerrygold is also fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last time I made my own butter it was by accident.

I was making Chantilly cream, beating by hand, and it just wasn't forming peaks. I kept going, then within a few seconds it turned grainy, then a few seconds later it started clumping into butter. Never happened to me before -- don't know what I did wrong. So I went with it and collected the butter.

Butter with vanilla and loads of sugar does not taste good.

You could have used it to make frosting.

[Anonymous]

Add in some fresh herbs too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Add in some fresh herbs too.

while mixing? Whole bits or do you mince it up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last time I made my own butter it was by accident.

I was making Chantilly cream, beating by hand, and it just wasn't forming peaks. I kept going, then within a few seconds it turned grainy, then a few seconds later it started clumping into butter. Never happened to me before -- don't know what I did wrong. So I went with it and collected the butter.

Butter with vanilla and loads of sugar does not taste good.

I like your writing style ha ha! The reveal at the end made me lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Add in some fresh herbs too.

while mixing? Whole bits or do you mince it up?

Mince it up. Whenever we have fresh herbs we aren't going to finish up, we will make homemade butter and mix herbs in and then freeze the butter in small servings.

[Anonymous]

The time and money to prep, look up a good video, and clean-up a greasy mess is not worth the $3.69 that I would pay for 4 sticks of butter/County Crock which is way easier to spread at Giant (and wait for a sale to boot).

[Anonymous]

I entirely agree that dairy transformations taste delicious when homemade. I've made yogurt myself. Whipped cream, especially flavored with freeze-dried fruit, is to die for. I'm not tempted to make butter, though, because I know it's going to be too delicious for my own good!

[Anonymous]

It is. Like making your own bread, and your own pasta and own meatballs, and own pizza, and own yogurt, own cookies and cakes, own jams, own pasta sauce, own ice cream, and so on.

I’ll do that when I retire and kids go to college, and then I’ll have an extra 50+ hours per week to do all make all these things.

In the meantime, Costco butter is good enough.

[Anonymous]

I am old, but we made butter in kindergarten. The teacher put the cream in a jar and we sat on the floor in a circle and passed the jar around. Everyone has a chance to shake the jar. Our reward was a saltine with a dab of fresh butter. Teachers couldn't do this today. It wouldn't be fair for the Larlos who had a daily allergy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am old, but we made butter in kindergarten. The teacher put the cream in a jar and we sat on the floor in a circle and passed the jar around. Everyone has a chance to shake the jar. Our reward was a saltine with a dab of fresh butter. Teachers couldn't do this today. It wouldn't be fair for the Larlos who had a daily allergy.

I did this in my kindergarten class. I'm old, but even back in the day we knew which kids had allergies and treated them with kindness, so in years when I had a kid with a dairy allergy we did something different. Teachers today can do the same.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it isn't hard. And you get buttermilk out of it too.