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

[Anonymous]

DH ordered some sort of hot drink on NYE and then asked if they could make hot buttered rum. The restaurant didn't have butter (weird, right?) so they made some and then he had to keep ordering the hot buttered rum because they had gone to all that trouble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, I'm shocked by the number of people who didn't know this is how you make butter. Wow, millennials really do suck.

I'm not a millennial. I'm GenX, but have never had a kitchen aid mixer. Not everyone is rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um, I'm shocked by the number of people who didn't know this is how you make butter. Wow, millennials really do suck.

I'm not a millennial. I'm GenX, but have never had a kitchen aid mixer. Not everyone is rich.

lol. You don’t need a mixer. Shake cream in a mason jar and you end up in the same place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

But you’ll have no one to eat it!

[Anonymous]

We've been doing this for decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um, I'm shocked by the number of people who didn't know this is how you make butter. Wow, millennials really do suck.

I'm not a millennial. I'm GenX, but have never had a kitchen aid mixer. Not everyone is rich.

Wow. Guess what...back in the 12th century they had butter and yet did not possess a Kitchen Aid Mixer. It's not all about wealth, Gen X.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you wash it? Not an issue if you're going to eat it all in a day or two, but otherwise, you need to wash it.

What do you mean, wash it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you wash it? Not an issue if you're going to eat it all in a day or two, but otherwise, you need to wash it.

What do you mean, wash it?

Not my blog, but here's the reasoning: https://www.homesteadersupply.com/blog/2016/10/washing-homemade-butter.html

If you've only made a little and you're going to eat it in a day or two, you can get away without this step. Otherwise, to help preserve it, you really should wash it.

[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.

This is literally one of my earliest memories - I think I was 3 or 4. Boy did that buttered saltine taste great!!

[Anonymous]

I could do this with my stick blender wisk attachment right? I remember you can add salt or leave out.

[Anonymous]

I make butter all the time. It is very easy and the end result is comparable to kerrygold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH ordered some sort of hot drink on NYE and then asked if they could make hot buttered rum. The restaurant didn't have butter (weird, right?) so they made some and then he had to keep ordering the hot buttered rum because they had gone to all that trouble.

Lol. It is not hard. And they will use that butter to make ghee anyways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um, I'm shocked by the number of people who didn't know this is how you make butter. Wow, millennials really do suck.

I'm not a millennial. I'm GenX, but have never had a kitchen aid mixer. Not everyone is rich.

Wow. Guess what...back in the 12th century they had butter and yet did not possess a Kitchen Aid Mixer. It's not all about wealth, Gen X.

Sorry, I didn’t study the cooking methods for dairy in the 12th century. I chose a different major.

[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.

Ugh, things are so woke now! Worrying about little kids' food allergies. Such wusses. (BTW, my kids, both in middle school now, also did this in kindergarten.)

[Anonymous]

Where do I find a cow?