What is real Buttermilk?

Buttermilk, do you know how it's made?

Traditional Buttermilk is the whey left over from the butter making process, full of naturally occurring lactic acid bacteria that ferment the cream prior to churning and make a viscous acidic milk drink "buttermilk".

The supposed "Buttermilk" that you buy in the supermarket is made by adding lactic acid bacteria to pasteurised skim milk & skim milk powder and fermenting it to achieve a similar product as the Traditional Buttermilk.

As it has a Similar fermentation and creates similar flavour profiles, thus given a descriptor "cultured buttermilk" and "Buttermilk" by dairy companies.

But it ain't the real deal - why?

It hasn't come from a butter making process.

It should be called "Fermented Milk" or "Sour Milk".

In the early 1900s, to stop consumers from being mislead this fermented milk was labeled "artificial buttermilk", to differentiate it from traditional buttermilk, which was known as natural or ordinary buttermilk.

"When a food has no compositional requirement in the Code, the name of the Food, should be the true name" - Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)

Butter-maker Pierre Issa (Pepe Saya) is joined by restaurant entrepreneurs Alex Herbert (Bird, Cow, Fish) & Michael McEnearney (Kitchen by Mike) explaining how buttermilk is made, the benefits of buttermilk and how traditional buttermilk differs from buttermilk made from skim milk.

[darlenerothenay]

I wish you tubers would realize music on videos is so distracting. I could barely hear the information because of the music.

[msyin]

I have just learned something new and I will never settle for "buttermilk" if it isn't made from butter.

[johnitaroberts-huff]

WOW finally a video that tell you about REAL BUTTERMILK, I have never tasted real buttermilk just the ones that are in the grocery stores. But I will try to make my own, Thanks for your video very informative :) :) :)

[vickycherry]

My grandmother used to milk the cows and pour the milk in her 4 gallon churn. As a little girl I got to help churn wtih a wooden dasher and watch grandmaw remove the butter. She told me that the milk that was left made the wonderful buttermilk that I loved to drink. When I was 21 I bought a 4 gallon churn and made my own butter and buttermilk. I was living in the country and I got the raw milk from neighbors. A few years later I moved to this big city and nowhere to get raw milk. But I do make batches of fermented food ever year in that special churn that I have had for 51 years now.

[oldchickenlady]

THANK YOU!!! I have seen so many videos of adding acid to milk and claiming it's buttermilk. We always called that soured milk and used it in some recipes. I will stick with the real buttermilk - though not having a dairy cow anymore, cream is just about too expensive to buy!

[DEACONAPLOVE]

I drink buttermilk. Fresh, hot, brown cornbread with ice cold buttermilk poured over the top is near perfection.

[UnknownNonsense]

I lived in NC for a few years and loved the real buttermilk from the farmer's markets. Was slightly thick, tangy, and tons of bits of butter throughout. I genuinely miss and crave it!

[Daehawk]

All my grandparents loved it and my dad drank it all the time. But as a child I HATED buttermilk. Funny because now I LOVE it! I buy it simply to drink a lot. but I admit cornbread made with it is better and soaking chicken in it for a few hours before frying is deelish too. But all we have around here is cultured buttermilk. All I can get.

[anitavaughn]

My grandmother used to make her own better and she would give my mother the better milk, my father I don’t know how he drank it coming up. They lived out in the country, so probably the same way as my mother, but imagine two people who both loved buttermilk got together, got married and here. I am at 54 years old drinking batter milk

[_rob_.]

@2:09 it gets to the point.

Music is down right aggravating.

But...
thanks for info 2 minutes in.
Thumbs up for the info, despite the music.

[deedeegill]

Thank you for this very educational information...thank you for the efforts taken to educate people.

[Offtheshouldertv]

This is a really good video & great to get the views from all the different chefs on how they like to use buttermilk!

[dmiitri]

The market (consumers) drive the "need" for fake buttermilk. We (as consumers) are always looking to pay less and less... and it forces manufactures to cheat and to use chemicals. The consumer has all the power.

[maryjayne]

If you want to know how Buttermilk is made this is NOT the video.

[loneyhearts]

My parents taught me how to make butter when I was a little girl. They told me the leftover liquid was buttermilk.
What I did not know is the buttermilk sold in the stores is the is not the same thing. I will be making my own butter more often and saving the buttermilk fir my cooking
Wish I could have a cow! Better milk, cream butter, and butter milk.

[TheJaayys]

Have you guys stopped making videos? Please do make more like this, it's very informative! Cheers, from Malaysia.

[arvin]

Supermarket buttermilk is like a 6 hours homemade yogurt

[TomFunKTKR]

good video but terrible music too loud and annoying

[michaelandersen]

They make it sound like some sort of conspiracy.  The truth is, there are two types of buttermilk, made with different processes, and with different uses.  If you use one type for a recipe that requires the other, then the recipe doesn't come out right.

Traditional buttermilk is what they are describing, and it is a wonderful product.  They already advocated for it, so I do not need to do so here.

Cultured buttermilk is the "fake" buttermilk they are describing (and it is not always made out of skim milk).  It is a bit of a misnomer, as butter is not involved in the process of making cultured buttermilk, but lots of things get named badly, so that should not be held against cultured buttermilk.  Cultured buttermilk is a key ingredient in many types of cheeses (maybe it should have been called "cheese milk?").  Most of the time, a cheese will fail if traditional buttermilk is used instead of cultured, so if you watch a lot of cheese making videos, they will warn you not to buy traditional buttermilk.

Not everything is a big conspiracy, sometimes it is just a quirk of language.

[HeselKumkum]

Wow finally parfact butter milk recipe