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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

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How long does it take?

Time required for this recipe:

Cooking	Start to finish
3 min.	3 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 3 min.

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.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules 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

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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