Foolproof and Easy Browned Butter
My friends often ask me "How do you make browned butter?" So that's why I uploaded this.
To make the best browned butter, speed and timing are critical.
You can use tissues instead of paper towels.
I used 5 sheets of tissue paper stacked together when I was out of paper towels, and that worked fine. Recipe by *ai*
Foolproof and Easy Browned Butter
My friends often ask me "How do you make browned butter?" So that's why I uploaded this.
To make the best browned butter, speed and timing are critical.
You can use tissues instead of paper towels.
I used 5 sheets of tissue paper stacked together when I was out of paper towels, and that worked fine. Recipe by *ai*
Cooking Instructions
- 1
To make this easy to explain, I'm using 70 g of butter to make the browned butter. The timing is critical for this, so let's do some prep work first
- 2
Cut the butter up into pieces. Have a fine-meshed sieve or strainer set on a heatproof bowl lined with paper towels.
- 3
Use a pan or frying pan that you are confident won't burn or stick. Add the butter and melt the butter over low heat.
- 4
Tip: If you are melting more than 100 g of butter, use a pan with high sides. Never put the butter in the pan in one big lump - cut it up into smaller pieces so that it melts easily.
- 5
When the butter has melted, turn the heat up to medium-high. The butter will have large bubbles at first.
- 6
If you keep looking at the butter, the bubbles will become smaller, and the level of the butter will start to rise. It'll be ready very soon.
- 7
Keep watching the pan, and you'll see that it starts to brown right away. Turn the heat off once the butter starts to brown.
- 8
Don't leave the butter in the hot pan. Immediately pour it into the lined sieve you made ready in Step 2, and strain it through. Make sure to strain off the bitter bits.
- 9
If you look at the butter in a clear bowl, properly strained browned butter is really beautiful. And it smells indescribably wonderful.
- 10
The color is like this. It's ok if it's too pale, but if the butter is too dark, it will have an acrid fragrance and flavor that will get transferred to the batter of whatever you're making. If it's your first time making browned butter, you may want to strainig it off a bit early.
- 11
Warning: If you leave the butter in the hot pan (Step 7), it will continue browning. So take it out and strain it immediately, being careful not to burn yourself.
- 12
Tip: If you're afraid of straining the hot butter right away, you can lower the temperature of the butter by pressing the bottom of the frying pan on a cold moistened kitchen towel first.
- 13
I brown a restaurant size 450 g block of unsalted cultured butter at a time and froze it. I highly recommend this!!
- 14
To brown 450 g of butter, a wok is just the right size. If you use a smaller pan, the butter may spill out, so be careful.
- 15
As long as you have this browned butter made, you can cream it and use it instead of regular butter when making poundcake.
- 16
Baked goods made with browned butter taste so much better than ones made with plain melted butter.
- 17
However, there are some drawbacks... For one thing, when you brown butter the volume decreases to 70%, so it ends up being expensive.
- 18
The biggest drawback is that when you brown butter it inevitably splits, so the texture of your cakes are much more likely to become dense.
- 19
Therefore, your cakes may not be light and fluffy with a fine, smooth texture. Although the possibility of this occuring is small, it does happen sometimes.
- 20
Generally you will barely notice this, but if you compare a cake made with regular melted butter vs. brown butter side by side, you may taste a slight difference.
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Therefore, I recommend making browned butter in advance and combining it with regular melted butter.
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Use browned butter for the taste and fragrance, and regular butter for its superior chemical reaction when baking. If you can master this you'll get the best results.
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