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I spent $9 on half a gallon of heavy whipping cream. Let's see how much butter I can get out of all of this. How much buttermilk I can get as well.
Now, before you start making your butter, the most important thing you want to do is start off with room temperature cream. Room temperature, okay? Just leave it out for an hour or two. I like to do halfway because it's going to get thicker, and when you're agitating it, you kind of want to leave some space for it to kind of keep moving inside. And then we are. Okay, this way takes too long. All right, this does nothing. Firmly grasp it and shake it.
At some point while you're shaking it, you're going to stop hearing it inside of the jar, and you're going to think it's done, but it's not. It's going to be kind of this whipping cream. You're almost there. It's going to start to separate. You'll start to kind of see it thicken up more. Now, when you shake it, the butter's going to start to separate from the buttercream. And there is the buttercream.
Now, we're going to go ahead and strain the buttermilk and the butter. I might have to do it a third time. There's still some inside. Second batch is done. You guys have asked if you can shake it inside the container. Yes, but remove some because remember we want to leave some space. So, whatever's left in here, we're just going to shake it in here. And we're done. And there is the rest of our butter. Honestly, that's a decent amount of butter.
Now, you're going to rinse your butter under cold water cuz you want to remove as much of that buttermilk as possible. That buttermilk that remains inside of the butter is going to make your butter go rancid quicker. So out of this carton of heavy whipping cream, I got exactly 32 oz, 4 cups, 100 ml, 1 L of buttermilk, and we got 798 g, and 1 lb and 12.1 oz of pounds of butter, a whole liter of buttermilk for $9. Honestly, I think it's pretty good.
Actually, it was a terrible deal because at Trader Joe's you could get buttermilk for $3 and a pound of butter for $3 as well. But you don't get the toned arms. So I don't know. Like, is the toned arms really worth it and the joy that you get from making it yourself? I think so, but if you want to skip all that hard work, go to Trader Joe's, I guess.