SCIENCE RECIPE
Butter Up Experiment
Materials Required:
- Heavy Whipping cream (>30% fat content)
- Clean mason jar or jam jar with lid
- Strainer
- Clean empty cup
- Water and ice
Procedure
- Fill half of the jar with the heavy whipping cream and close the lid. shake the jar vigorously for some minutes until it thickens.
- Continue shaking vigorously for 10 minutes until clumps of fat start forming and increase in size until all the liquid and fat are separated.(Figure 1)
- Open the jar, strain the content into an empty cup. what is left in the container is butter. The liquid in the cup is buttermilk (Figure 2)
- Place the butter in bowl containing ice and water. Fold it and press it around the bowl a few times, replacing the water until it rinses clear. Squeeze the butter to remove as much liquid as possible and store in the refrigerator or just spread it on a toast.
