While maintaining the strengths that have made the reputation of the CONTIMAB®, we have developed a new range of churns, even more accessible. The CONTIMAB EASYFLEX® range is the latest model of the SIMON Frères butter churns. All of a sudden the cream goes a bit yellow in colour and then little bits of butter appear and a thin liquid, the buttermilk. Just seconds later, the butter seems to clump and is separated from the buttermilk. If your whisk is on high speed you are now redecorating the kitchen, hence my suggesting you reduce speed to a minimum. Buttermilk

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If you have salted or flavoured the butter, you will need to mix it thoroughly and then you can shape it. I prefer a roll of butter rather than the traditional box shape. You can then wrap the butter to keep in the fridge or to freeze if you have a lot. I’ve never managed to freeze cream so making butter was the ideal way to take advantage of a bargain and store it for use in the future. Final product: The purest of any of the homemade butters, almost completely devoid of remaining buttermilk. When you're not able to access any suitable appliances, you can make butter simply by shaking heavy cream in a mason jar. Making butter with a Mason jarIn addition, homemade butter is soft and malleable before being chilled, perfect for making compound butter by stirring in some garlic, cheese powder, cinnamon sugar, or your favorite sweet or savory add-in. Can you do this with store-bought butter? Sure; it’s just less convenient since you have to soften the butter first. How to do it: Pour cream into a large mixing bowl. Using the beaters (not the whisk), beat at medium-high speed. The cream will gradually go from soft whipped to stiff whipped to separated. When it starts to separate, drape a large dish towel over your hands and the top of the bowl to shield yourself and your surroundings from splashing buttermilk (and/or move the bowl to a deep kitchen or workshop sink). Continue to beat until the butter and buttermilk have fully separated. Final product: Your hand-shaken butter will be softer and retain more buttermilk than butter made with the aid of a machine. If you think you’re going to make butter out of that 1/4 cup of heavy cream leftover from making Never-Fail Biscuits, think again. It’s difficult to make butter from anything less than about 1 1/2 cups (12 ounces, 340g) of cream; most full-size mixers and food processors simply don’t like dealing with small amounts of liquid. And with the yield of butter from cream ranging from about 35% to 50% (tops) by weight, it’s frankly not worth the effort (even if you do manage it) to start with a cup or less of cream and end up with just 6 or 7 tablespoons of homemade butter. You need double cream or whipping cream to make butter, single cream is just too thin. Butter Making – Equipment

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Salt (and season) to taste: Do you like your butter salted, or not? I prefer baking with unsalted butter (to best control the salt level in the recipe) and using salted butter as a condiment: on toast, biscuits, scones, pancakes, and slices of crusty bread, to name just a few favorites. When you make your own butter, you can add just the amount of salt you prefer. (To replicate the salt level of store-bought butter, use a scant 1/4 teaspoon table salt per 4 ounces (113g) of homemade butter.) Elapsed time: This can vary a lot depending on the power of your mixer and whether it comes equipped with old-fashioned flat-blade beaters rather than whisk-type beaters. Flat-blade beaters will produce butter in as little as 6 to 8 minutes; using whisk-type beaters will extend that time to 10 to 12 minutes. You can also add crushed garlic or dried herbs to make flavoured butter if you wish at this stage. Shaping the ButterHaving said that, sometimes you will find the supermarket has reduced it’s cream as it approaches the end of it’s shelf life. One Christmas Eve we found our supermarket had a load of cream reduced to 5p for a large tub. Heavy cream, whipping cream, or heavy whipping cream are all suitable choices for making homemade butter. Heavy cream, with the highest percentage of butterfat, will yield the most butter; lower-fat whipping cream will yield less. Ability to process any kind of cream, fresh, recombined from melted butter or liquid AMF, possibly including any type of vegetable oil at various percentages and producing any type of butter. Using your mixer's flat beater rather than its whisk will speed the butter-making process up considerably. Making butter in a stand mixer

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The butter-making process takes several minutes, but the final separation of butter solids and buttermilk happens quite suddenly at the end. Be prepared for some splashing! Making butter with a handheld electric mixer Making butter is remarkably easy and very satisfying. In recent years the concerns about fats, cholesterol and heart disease have made butter an almost taboo food but I believe that, like most natural foods, in moderation it will do no harm. I have even heard that the fats in low fat spreads are more harmful than the natural animal fats in butter.Thankfully, I put aside any hasty negative assumptions and read up on homemade butter. As it turns out, it’s simple to make if you have a stand (or hand) mixer, a blender, or a food processor. Within about 10 minutes, you can turn cream into solid butter. To salt do not add more than a small half teaspoon for each half pound (250 gr) – half that amount suits me but I don’t take a lot of salt. But why would you want to? How does homemade butter differ from store-bought? Why you should make your own butter It will go through the usual stage of starting to form firm peaks and then it becomes quite stiff. At this point you might like to reduce the speed of your whisk because when it goes it happens very fast. Drain the buttermilk off – you can use this in baking bread, scones, cooking or make your cat very happy. Washing the Butter

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Elapsed time: This may vary quite a bit depending on the blender you use; my Ninja took about 6 minutes.

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Unless you have your own cow or access to a dairy, you are not going to save any money by making your own butter. As with most commodity products in the supermarket, the retail price of butter is less than you can buy the raw materials for at retail