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Fire Me Boy! 08-07-2014 01:46 PM

Melting butter
 
Anyone here want to chat about melting butter?

I gotta be honest - I use the microwave almost entirely when I need to melt butter, unless I'm doing it just to cook with it on the stove. But sometimes, baked goods or breads require melted butter, so that goes in the microwave.

But I hate when some of the water in the butter explodes, and sends half your butter all over the inside of the science oven. That stuff's hard to clean up.

But if I'm cooking with it, obviously it just goes straight in the pan or pot.

Now, there is one instance where I melt a butt load of butter all at once - when I'm making ghee. I'll put like 2 pounds in the dutch oven and melt that, but then I keep on cooking it until the milk solids separate and start to brown and all the water in the oil boils out. By the way, I wouldn't really recommend cultured butter for this, as you mostly lose all the complexities of the nice butter. I've had equally good experiences with $7/pound butter as the cheaper stuff.

Donger 08-07-2014 01:47 PM

Please tel me you don't nuke it when making a roux...

Fire Me Boy! 08-07-2014 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 10800131)
Please tel me you don't nuke it when making a roux...

Oh, god no.

The Franchise 08-07-2014 01:48 PM

What's ghee?

ptlyon 08-07-2014 01:48 PM

Stove. Always.

Fire Me Boy! 08-07-2014 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Pestilence (Post 10800135)
What's ghee?

It's butter fat that's been separated from the milk solids and allowed the water to evaporate. So it's like clarified butter you'd get with lobster or crab, but it's allowed to cook a little longer, until the milk solids start to brown on the bottom of the pan. That gives it a really awesome nuttiness.

I keep some around all the time, it's super easy to make and is ridiculously good.

Donger 08-07-2014 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball! (Post 10800134)
Oh, god no.

Good, because I would have had to kill you.

Fire Me Boy! 08-07-2014 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 10800163)
Good, because I would have had to kill you.

You would have had to stand in line behind me.

Bufkin 08-07-2014 01:53 PM

Why does margarine ruin my popcorn when I melt it and pour it over? It turns the popcorn into mush. It resembles my dong after a Melissa McCarthy flick.

ptlyon 08-07-2014 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball! (Post 10800144)
It's butter fat that's been separated from the milk solids. So it's like clarified butter you'd get with lobster or crab, but it's allowed to cook a little longer, until the milk solids start to brown on the bottom of the pan. That gives it a really awesome nuttiness.

I keep some around all the time, it's super easy to make and is ridiculously good.

So basically it's a nut butter?

Fire Me Boy! 08-07-2014 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ptlyon (Post 10800170)
So basically it's a nut butter?

:spock:

Not at all. It's oil with a very high smoke point that tastes like butter's supermodel big sister.

Fire Me Boy! 08-07-2014 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Eric Fisher (Post 10800169)
Why does margarine ruin my popcorn when I melt it and pour it over? It turns the popcorn into mush. It resembles my dong after a Melissa McCarthy flick.

Because it hates you and your popcorn. Butter loves you and your popcorn.

Seriously, I can't really figure out why. My initial thought would be the water content, but apparently margarine and butter have to be at least 80 percent fat and typically have very similar water contents.

ptlyon 08-07-2014 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball! (Post 10800175)
:spock:

Not at all. It's oil with a very high smoke point that tastes like butter's supermodel big sister.

That's a joke son. A real flag waver.

Fire Me Boy! 08-07-2014 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by ptlyon (Post 10800186)
That's a joke son. A real flag waver.

Oh, my bad. I missed the funny bits, so you'll understand why I didn't get it. ;)

ptlyon 08-07-2014 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball! (Post 10800196)
Oh, my bad. I missed the funny bits, so you'll understand why I didn't get it. ;)

Nut. Butter. Nut butter.


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