First Steps for Making Clarified Butter

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Louis Ortiz on behalf of Expert Village and today I’m going to show you a procedure for clarifying butter. What we’re going to do here is I’ve got one pound stick of butter, brick of butter however you want to look at it and I’ve got a stockpot, I’ve got my fire going on underneath the stockpot and I filled it about half way with water, inside there I’ve placed a stainless steal mixing bowl and what we’re going to do is just unwrap this butter and drop him in the bowl. You can easily just put the butter inside a sauce pan if you prefer and start to clarify it that way I feel like this is a little bit gentler process and you don’t run the risk of scorching the butter or scorching any of the solids that will come off of this butter on the bottom of the pan. So again I’ve got about a medium flame we’re generating a good amount of steam the water inside this which again is about half way level is at a pretty good boil at a high simmer essentially and as this butter starts to breakdown we’re going to skim off the top and I’ll show you exactly how we’re going to do that when we come back to it, so we’re going to give it a few minutes and let it start to melt first."