Thermomix Butter - photos

[cgonsalv]

After reading all 10 pages of the 'Butter' post I made butter with my very own little hands ... hmmm well TM hands  .
I am over the moon. 
Now if I could just convince myself to make bread, I can have my favourite meal of warm bread with butter and raspberry jam. 
If anyone is watching "Come fly with me",  I feel a bit like the 'Precious' character ...
"We have home-made butter, we have home-made jam, but the Lord in his almighty wisdom has decided to make me too chicken to try making the home-made bread" 
So back to the forum to read a 1000 posts before I try the bread. 
Thanks to all the butter makers for all your hints.

For those interested, here is a link to the Precious character:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p00d6ty3/come_fly_with_me_precious_little_got_no_water/

[faffa_70]

Chris, the bread is as easy as the butter!! Have a go - you can do it!!! We are all here thinking of you and egging you on 

[jkmt]

Chris, do try the bread. While there are heaps of recipes here as well, I find the one in the EDC works really well for me every time.

[stef]

here is what i made .. lightly salted and very good

[Cuilidh]

I'm not sure if this is covered in any other post - but should you also keep the 'rinsing' water or is it just the initial fluid that is the genuine buttermilk?  I've never been sure whether the subsequent rinse water should be retained as well.

[stef]

the water is just to remove the left over butter milk that makes the butter rancid...  just get rid of that...

[cgonsalv]

Hi Stef,
Your butter looks great.  I was amazed at how easy it was to make.  My young son made loads of toast just so that he could have the butter on it.  My husband loved the butter milk and just drank it - ruined my plans to use them for pancakes.  He asked if I could make the butter milk everyday - not quite sure what I would do with 400g of butter daily!!!!!  I do love my butter but that would be too much even for me. 

[faffa_70]

Chris freeze the butter - thought 400g a day you will soon have a huge supply lol 

And yes only keep the buttermilk and discard the rinsing water  - I might go and see if I have an earlier post that I can change that in, just incase someone doesn't get all the way through this thread 

[stef]

hey.. why don't you sell the leftover butter to your friends and neighbors ?

[cgonsalv]

Stef this is exactly what my husband suggested.  It would also be lovely if the whole street got chubby together. Though very sadly the way we are going we would have none to sell.  Out of the 400g+ of butter we had, we would be lucky to have 50 grams left after one day ... I did use 150 g for chocolate fondants.  I have had a ridiculous amount of it plain ... I just put a teeny tiny bit on the end of a teaspoon and enjoy ... about a 1000 times.  We are going away for the long weekend so I have go make some more today.  I am sure the Queen wants me to celebrate her birthday with lots of yummy butter. 

[cgonsalv]

Tried to make the butter again with a different brand 51% fat as my supermarket had run out of the 35% fat one ... no luck at all.  It is still going.  Has anyone had luck with the higher fat creams?

[cgonsalv]

I kept it going and going and going and it changed consistency a few times but no butter.  Have given up - will need to find the 35% cream and try again.

[andiesenji]

Is the butterfly not gathering any of the whipped cream?

I use the "manufacturing cream" which is extra heavy cream - and it turns into butter easily - Usually less than 2 minutes..

And when I make "cultured" butter the stuff starts out really super thick, almost like thick yogurt and I start it on a slow speed so the butterfly can get some traction before turning the speed up to 4.

[stef]

i used normal high fat wipping cream at speed for and it takes me less than a minute

[cgonsalv]

I am not sure what I did wrong, but I have gone back to the tried and tested 35% fat.  I made another batch today with the 35% fat and it worked - thank goodness.