How to Brown Butter | Today's Special

Browning butter—cooking it until its milk solids deepen to a dark golden brown—adds a complex, nutty flavor to savory applications as well as to sweet recipes. Ashley shows you how to ensure success.

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[PolkafacePanDuh]

I have literally ONLY browned salted butter and never had issues. Just had to share that for anyone else out there who loves salted butter🤣

[mbrez]

I do 5 pounds un-salted butter in Dutch Oven n oven at 250F. After the milk solids come out and turn brown, filter and store what is now Ghee.

[claressalucas]

Hot Pie always browned the butter for the crust in his kidney pies and he was the ONLY character from Game of Thrones to live happily ever after. Coincidence? I think not.

[deveus]

This is great! Can y'all also do one about how to make clarified butter or ghee?

[phoebebaker]

Thanks! I’m always worried about burning butter when I’m cooking. Is the brown butter closer to the burning point than regular butter?

[MMuraseofSandvich]

I like to throw in a little powdered dry milk because the butters I get tend not to have a lot of milk solids for some reason. Doesn't take much, you typically only need like a teaspoon.

[jenjoy]

Mmmm. Sage in browned butter over pasta! 😘

[diane]

Brown butter frosting on banana or apple cake, the best!

[CallaLily]

Great video. In a baking recipe that calls for just melted butter, but you want to switch it out for browned butter, do you need to make any adjustments? Should you add any milk or water to compensate for the liquid loss during the browning process or can you just use 1 to 1?

[gennaterra]

Awesome... but can you store it? Where? What's its shelf life? ATK missing these details?

[BellefontePerson]

Melt over medium high heat. You never said if the heat should then be reduced once the butter was melted but on the close-up it looked like the flame was a lot lower. Then you said remove when foaming subsidies, but there was still foam when you removed it from the heat.

[janet]

Great instruction. Definitely don't step away for a second! Mine did take longer than 3 minutes! (induction)

[audreygullas]

Will I ever get my question answered ? How much is left after ? How much to use to get say a cup full of browned ??

[audreygullas]

What I want to know is, how much butter do you end up with after browning one stick of butter ?? No one tells ya anything like that. I think it's pretty important to know .❤

[FPaul]

You said the butter can get too brown...what does that look like? I would like to see an example in the video.

[barbaracholak]

Hello from California ATK
salutations 😋

[aerocoaster]

Looks like someone has a favorite spatula. :)

[knightshousegames]

So is it better to start with softened butter or does it not really matter?

[JoshuaMartin-nc]

Wait so do you still use all of it? Or just the bottom part of it after it’s been browned?

[WW-wnef]

Is there a time you WOULDN'T use brown butter? Would this pair well in the dough of something like lemon curd thumbprint cookies? Thanks a lot!