Clarified Butter

[sunshinestate24]

Can you make butter using heavy cream, like in a food processor, and then clarify it?  We made butter at a girl scout function, and it was amazing that we simply shook a jar of room temperature cream and voila !  It was butter.  I thought this would be an inexpensive way to make my own clarified butter, without confiscating all the butter in the house.

[Physibeth]

Can you make butter using heavy cream, like in a food processor, and then clarify it?  We made butter at a girl scout function, and it was amazing that we simply shook a jar of room temperature cream and voila !  It was butter.  I thought this would be an inexpensive way to make my own clarified butter, without confiscating all the butter in the house.

 

Sounds perfectly fine to me. 

[Munkers]

You may not be saving as much money as you think. A pint of cream does not make a pint of butter because you'll have whey to discard from the process. You may want to do some price checking and look at how much butter you can get from X amount of cream and then look at price of cream versus price of butter.

[ultrarunnergirl]

Remember, that butter is only as good as the quality of the milk. I make a point to buy grassfed butter to make mine. Of course, you don't have to do this, but Kerrygold is readily available in many grocery stores.

[Munkers]

Kerrygold is also DELICIOUS. I seriously didn't understand why people were so nuts over butter until I tried Kerrygold. Now I get it.

[sunshinestate24]

Thank you all.  You were right?  I made some butter this weekend, and the cream has more "bad" ingredients than the butter.  Plus, at Costco, you can get a lot of butter for a very little price, so it was a great experiment, but I'm going back to buying butter instead of making it.  Live and learn!