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How to prevent butter burning during cooking

How to prevent butter burning during cooking
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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duree3 min. difficultéEasy prix0.10 € pour combien1 cooking ingredients2 Ingredients
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Last modified on: February 21th 2011
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For 1 cooking, you will need:
  • 1 butter 1 knob butter
  • 2 oil 1 tablespoon oil
  • Total weight: 25 grams
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Times for this recipe
Cooking: 3 min.

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Stage 1 - ⌛ 3 min.
How to prevent butter burning during cooking : Stage 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.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe0020 RDI=4 %210 RDI=10 %880 RDI: 10 %
Per 100 g0090 RDI=10 %840 RDI=40 %3,530 RDI: 40 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman
Possible allergens in this recipe: milk
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  • For 1 cooking : 0.15 €

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Butter
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  • There is no milk in butter! Butter is made from cream, made from milk.
    Lana october 22th 201211:56 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.
    Laurie october 17th 201221:55 1

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