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How to prevent butter burning during cooking

Name: How to prevent butter burning during cooking
Cook time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1 cooking
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 knob butter; 1 tablespoon oil

Butter, which is excellent for fixing flavours in a recipe, burns if the temperature is too high. It darkens and produces unpleasant small black specks (by the way, note that the famous recipe "raie au beurre noir", ray in black butter, is a kind of sacrilege!).

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Duration

3 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 13^th 2026

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For 1 cooking, you will need:

1 1 knob butter
2 1 tablespoon oil
Total weight: 25 grams

Times for this recipe

Cooking

3 min.

Step by step recipe

Step 1 - ⌛ 3 min.

How to prevent butter burning during cooking : Step 1

To avoid this, you can add a little oil to the butter which allows you to raise the temperature further. But this is not always an appropriate method as sometimes it's not desirable to use oil (for a dessert for exemple).

It's well worth making clarified butter.

Source: Home made.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	< 1 g	0 g	93 g RDI=128 %	841 kcal RDI=42 %	3,520 kJ RDI=42 %
Whole recipe	< 1 g	0 g	22 g RDI=30 %	200 kcal RDI=10 %	836 kJ RDI=10 %

Whole recipe

Possible allergens in this recipe: milk

How much will it cost?

For 1 cooking

0.10 €

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The 2 comments already posted on this recipe

There is no milk in butter! Butter is made from cream, made from milk.
Posted by Lana october 22^th 2012 at 11:56 n° 2
This is a kitchen myth. The milk solids in butter will still burn at the same temperature, adding oil just disperses them more widely so it isn't as visible.
Posted by Laurie october 17^th 2012 at 21:55 n° 1

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