Ok KC & The Sunshine Band

Sing it

Shake Shake Shake
Shake your Butter
Shake your Butter..........

skywarrior3 wrote:Would this work with goat's cream? I just bought two dairy goats today.

Make sure you get it from FEMALE goats.

Making butter doesn't really require a kit. i fyou have any old peanut butter jar or anything of the like, just put the cream (and other ingredients, should you choose to use them), in it and shake until lumpy. that's it. no need to buy any specialized kit or anything.

On another note, you can save the excess liquid (also known as buttermilk) that results from making butter and use that for cooking with as well. you can make several things like buttermilk pancakes or ranch dressing.

blazerflamewing wrote:Making butter doesn't really require a kit. i fyou have any old peanut butter jar or anything of the like, just put the cream (and other ingredients, should you choose to use them), in it and shake until lumpy. that's it. no need to buy any specialized kit or anything.

On another note, you can save the excess liquid (also known as buttermilk) that results from making butter and use that for cooking with as well. you can make several things like buttermilk pancakes or ranch dressing.

You can also use a food processor or stand mixer(like Kitchenaid) to make butter, much easier than a jar.

Use the butter milk for the things you suggested as well as cakes, my MIL uses buttermilk for a chocolate cake she makes, it's texture and flavor are awesome.

For a detailed explanation of butter making, including sweet cream vs cultured, which creams are best, various churning methods and so on, go here:

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/How-To-Make-Butter-And-Buttermilk.aspx

This is SOOO Third Grade. Did this in my third grade class for a Thanksgiving celebration. My teacher took an empty jar, poured a pint of heavy cream in it, a pinch of salt, and passed it around to everyone in class for a shake. It was passed around to everyone and by the time it got to the last person, it was butter. (Circa early 1960s)

ThunderThighs wrote:

SO easy having everything in a kit! Just need to buy one thing and you are done...

sdbcmr wrote:I know there are some who really, really love the non-wine Wine Woots, but I gotta confess: I cringe whenever I come in here and they're selling crackers or cheese or freaking butter or something ... I cringe.

Wine. I like ... wine.

I for one like the non-wine Woots because I live in Pennsylvania (with its archaic alcohol laws) so it's not even worth it to me looking at the actual wine Woots.

Honestly, I often wonder how this site survives given the number of places they CAN'T ship to.

In first grade we made butter. There was a bowl of cream with an egg beater in it and each kid got to spin the egg beater until the cream became butter. So I don't get what this kit is for?

I'm exactly the opposite. Love when it's not wine. Because I live in *gasp* New Jersey. Counting the days though!

This, however, still seems like a waste.

Um dont you make butter by making whipped cream but then whipping it way too much?

lesliekozup wrote:SO easy having everything in a kit! Just need to buy one thing and you are done...

I would normally agree but it's still requirung me to go to the supermarket for heavy cream, no? It's a good educational toy, I'll give you that but I don't know if wine.woot is a good dorum for this intro. I guess we'll see ...

Ooh, can't wait to see this offered again...and again... during the next Woot*Off

skywarrior3 wrote:Would this work with goat's cream? I just bought two dairy goats today.

Goat milk doesn't separate like cow milk.. unless you're willing to skim minute amounts of fat off several day old milk in your fridge, or willing to invest in a cream separator, it might not be worth the effort..

that being said... Sure, if you can acquire the cream and agitate it enough, I don't see why it wouldn't work. (You can churn whole milk.. it just takes a hell of a lot of time, and you get very little return for your investment in milk.)

Empty paint can + lots of heavy cream + friend who works in Home Depot paint department = a years supply of butter.

lol ( Land O Lakes )

thumperchick wrote:Image AHOY!

So disturbing...

I'm quite happy to see non-wine products on this site since woot won't ship to my state.

Being able to support Woot and its' employees makes me happy :-)

Yes, there are other ways to make butter, but I purchased to remind myself that we can do it if we want to, otherwise, Land o' Lakes....

fortgeorge wrote:You can also use a food processor or stand mixer(like Kitchenaid) to make butter, much easier than a jar.

Use the butter milk for the things you suggested as well as cakes, my MIL uses buttermilk for a chocolate cake she makes, it's texture and flavor are awesome.

I used to make my own butter in the dryer. Yes, the dryer.

Just need an empty and cleaned plastic peanut butter jar, a padded oven mitt, and some cream.

Fill the jar about halfway with the cream, put it in the mitt, close it up with safety pins (oh, yeah, you'll need safety pins too).

Put it in the dryer--set the dryer to just toss the contents for about 20 minutes--no heat!

Take it out, open the jar, pour off the whey. Re-seal the jar and the mitt and throw it back in the dryer for another 20 minutes.]

Voila! You'll have really good butter!

inkwench wrote:I used to make my own butter in the dryer. Yes, the dryer.

Just need an empty and cleaned plastic peanut butter jar, a padded oven mitt, and some cream.

Fill the jar about halfway with the cream, put it in the mitt, close it up with safety pins (oh, yeah, you'll need safety pins too).

Put it in the dryer--set the dryer to just toss the contents for about 20 minutes--no heat!

Take it out, open the jar, pour off the whey. Re-seal the jar and the mitt and throw it back in the dryer for another 20 minutes.]

Voila! You'll have really good butter!

I make butter with my Kitchenaid mixer. Pour whipping cream in a bowl, put in a little salt, and turn on high. When it starts to separate, lower the speed. When you get a nice ball, take it out and squeeze it in some cheese cloth. Now you have butter and you didn't wear yourself out shaking a hokey jar.

Maybe it is just me but $14 + the cost of cream to be able to make 6.5 ounces of butter? I know I can go to my local grocery and pay $6 for a pound of a good quality butter, I don't know just seems to be an outrageous price to me. Then one of the other posters said Amazon sells a 12 pack of this for like $17 but is out of stock right now, imagine that isn't this site run by Amazon????

This would be a great gift for anyone who has family in Norway, I heard they were going through some sort of "butter crisis".

I had to log in just to say anyone who needs a kit to make butter better only have safety scissor in their house and no sharp corners on furniture.

You want to make butter? Do this - get a pint of whole cream, dump it in a blender. Add a pinch of salt. Turn the blender on. Watch it. After a few minutes the butter and milk will separate. Pour off the milk (it's buttermilk! great for baking!). press the butter together with your hands under running water.

If you want flavors add those with the salt.

IT REALLY IS THAT FREAKING EASY.

I cant beleive its not ....(wine)

Fabio

Ooh, can't wait to see this offered again...and again... during the next Woot*Off

Or in a bag o cr*p

ruadog wrote:Honestly, I often wonder how this site survives given the number of places they CAN'T ship to.

Alcoholics?

Hey, I'm curious if it's possible to make butter without using a kit? Could someone post some instructions on how to do so?

sdbcmr wrote:I know there are some who really, really love the non-wine Wine Woots, but I gotta confess: I cringe whenever I come in here and they're selling crackers or cheese or freaking butter or something ... I cringe.

Wine. I like ... wine.

amen to that. Although some of the toffees and chocolates woot has offered have not been bad. The Brandini toffee turned out to be really good. But more wine!

worldwidewebfeet wrote:Ok KC & The Sunshine Band

Sing it

Shake Shake Shake
Shake your Butter
Shake your Butter..........

That put this in my head:


Also, may I say I am vaguely impressed at the various ways you all know how to make butter.

(I wonder if this would work with soy milk...)

for inkycatz......

elezar wrote:Hey, I'm curious if it's possible to make butter without using a kit? Could someone post some instructions on how to do so?

First you need cream, the stuff in the stupor market is filled with preservatives just because the geeks at the FDA are on a power trip. So you will need to make an Amish connection or a connection with someone who has an Amish connection. Once you have made a connection with "Mr. Stoltzfus" or someone who knows "Mr. Stoltzfus" ...

Try this link for people who know "Mr. Stoltzfus"

www.realmilk.com/where07.html

If this is one of those Shake Weights with a hollow core to add cream, I'm not going to be happy.

Had to check the calendar -- nope, not April 1. "Chefs, families and foodies will love this kit." Still not April 1. $19.00 -- STILL not April 1. What gives?

can we simply bite the bullet and rename wine.woot to food.woot? sounds good to me

satch69 wrote:can we simply bite the bullet and rename wine.woot to food.woot? sounds good to me

It's a Thursday thing!

worldwidewebfeet wrote:for inkycatz......

(PIX)

Thanks!

Butter Tea

I have to confess, this sounds odd. Anyone do this sort of thing with butter?

RE: Goat's milk. It depends on the type of goat you have. Some produce a very high butterfat milk. I used to raise Nigerian Dwarf goats and some produced milk that was more like cream on top Jersey cow's milk. After 24 hrs in the fridge you could scoop the cream right off the top and it made fantastic butter!

richardhod wrote:I want to know if this is good QPR: how much does this butter whey?

about a Euro-Pound.

This is a silly product, but it inspired me to make butter today. I had a small container of heavy cream I bought for a recipe that was just going to sit there until it spoiled, so I threw it in the kitchenaid, turned it into butter, and had it on toast with jam. Not a bad project, but, yes, a bad woot.

The nicest thing about homemade butter is that it's always smooth and creamy so it spreads easily on bread or toast, even straight from the fridge. No more shredding your bread trying to spread butter on it for making grilled cheese sandwiches!