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

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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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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

You will need:

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

Measures: Metric USA British Metric weight Metric volumes

How long does it take?

Cooking	Start to finish
3 min.	3 min.

Step by step recipe

How to prevent butter burning during cooking : Photo of 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.

3 min.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Calories	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
211	<1 gr	0 gr	23 gr
11 %	<1 %	0 %	4 %

Per 100 g
Calories	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
844	<1 gr	0 gr	94 gr
42 %	<1 %	0 %	14 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For : 0.10 €

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Source: Home made.

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Your 2 comments or questions on this recipe

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)
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)

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