Butter!

I've been sick the past few days. Actually, I've been ill for almost a week now. I've barely gotten off the couch, let alone cooked anything. But today, I knew I was on the mend when I decided, for no apparent reason, to take some cream that we had in the fridge and make my own butter.

Yep, that's right. I made butter! It was unbelievably easy. What was not unbelievably easy, was taking the YouTube videos that showed the process. I couldn't find the portable gorilla pod, so these videos are going to be a little shaky and disjointed. I'll take new ones soon.

I took about 6 ounces of heavy cream and dumped it into the KitchenAid. Started it mixing on speed 6 and just let it go. The first video isn't all that interesting. So I'll skip posting it.

The second video however is a bit better (although it is a bit grainy).

You might be able to tell that the cream looks pretty chunky at this point. I stopped the mixer and looked. Was this butter? It was pretty solid. But it smelled very much like cream. So I kept going.

All of a sudden, the chunky cream split into a yellow solid (the butter) and a milky liquid (whey). Just like that. It took all of 2 seconds. After that, I scraped the solid butter out of the mixer and put it on paper towels to drain. I took a second set of paper towels and tried to squeeze as much liquid as I could out of the butter. That's it.

All total I made 4 ounces of butter out of 6 ounces of heavy cream. Not bad for all of 5 minutes work.