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CHEESE TYPE BOARDS (for Cheese Lovers and Cheese Makers) => FRESH CHURNED - Butter & Ghee => Topic started by: onnalee13 on June 07, 2012, 05:04:46 AM

Title: First time question:
Post by: onnalee13 on June 07, 2012, 05:04:46 AM
Hi y'all,
Tonight was my first time making butter. I skimmed about a quart of cream from three gallons fresh raw milk and using my wonderful blender with the dough blade, ran it until it looked chunky. Here's the question... The end resultng butter was fluffy. Should I have let it process longer to make it less fluffy and ' harder'. I washed it with cold water and a spatula and it was oily as butter should be. I guess I'll see how it behaves tomorrow morning. Any thoughts on the consistency for when you should pull it out to wash?
Thanks
Title: Re: First time question:
Post by: TraditionalGoats on June 17, 2012, 03:36:42 AM
Hi,

My cultured butter tends to be a bit more fluffy or whipped looking and lighter, even after washing and chilling.  If I let my regular butter go a bit longer than needed it gets fluffy and soft too.  It tastes good but never gets really hard after that point.  Spreadable not at all like the store bought stuff which I was told has a hardener added to it.

Tracy
Title: Re: First time question:
Post by: MrsKK on June 28, 2012, 08:10:46 PM
Butter here tends to be fluffier when the weather is warmer.

Title: Re: First time question:
Post by: mabel4gs on February 27, 2013, 01:35:11 PM
I've made butter a few times now from store bought cream and Aroma B culture.
I churn it in a cuisinart and it does get fluffy at first, but then after a couple of minutes you can see the butter milk start to splash and seperate from the butter. After draining and putting it in the fridge it gets hard.
Perhaps it needs to be churned for a longer time?
I'm pretty new at this so I'm not sure it the methods I'm using are transferable to yours. Hope it is helpful!

Title: Re: First time question:
Post by: Butterviking on December 15, 2014, 04:46:44 PM
Churn by hand at a temp under 15 degrees Celsius and it will separate really nicely.
Title: Re: First time question:
Post by: fredthecat on February 18, 2015, 03:51:05 AM
How does homemade butter taste? I'm interested in making it.