How to Make Clarified Butter - A staple for every kitchen

One of the best things you can have in your kitchen arsenal is clarified butter. In this video I go over not only how to make it, but why you should make it and various uses for clarified butter. It is simple to make and will elevate your cooking to the next level.

[KptKrunch]

I've been watching many YT videos lately on how to do this. Your's is very consistent with what I see professional chef's do - you sir have done your homework and are very thorough. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this. Going forward (much to the chagrin of my wife) this is what I'll be using for my stir fries, steaks, baking, and pretty much everything else I do. The 'waste' created by this process can be used to mix in with mashed potatoes or used for popcorn - this way you're not throwing out food!

[mrhalfstep]

Great video! I always pour my clarified butter into ice cube trays and let them cool in the fridge. Then I pop them out into a Tupperware container and leave them in the fridge until I need them, one or two at a time. BTW, it keeps longer than 6 months in the fridge.

[yowamidesu]

I recently learned about the process they put "Seed oils" through to make them and have decided to do my best to cut them out of my diet as much as possible. That's when I found out about clarified butter and ghee. Avocado oil is not only expensive but from my understanding cooking any oil, even the "good" ones at high heat more or less nullifies any beneficial properties that they had in the first place. I could be wrong and need to go over the source material for that. I was able to find ghee in my local grocery store but from what I understand nobody really sells clarified butter so I was looking for videos on how to make it myself and found this. Thank you for the video, I will be trying it soon enough.

[henry]

LOL, Clarified butter's short longevity (meaning it doesn't take long for me to go through what I make), is second only to "Moose Tracks" ice cream around me. I have always used clarified butter for cooking and flavoring... nothing better for drowning my pop corn.

After seeing the process that the popular vegetable oils (known as "RBD" oils) sold in the supermarkets (Canola, Corn, Safflower, etc) goes through to produce them... using hexane to extract more of the oil from the seed/grain, then refined using Lye, and then bleached and deodorized to the soulless oil that it is.. no thanks!!

In fact ... refined Canola (rapeseed) oil is used as an industrial lubricant... yummy.

Looking forward to see where you take this channel.

[cherilynlewis]

Thank you for clarifying this😉 I will try this

[lisaspikes]

Very good video! I’ve thought about doing this, but never did. I didn’t realize that the smoke point on clarified butter was so high! This has motivated me to try it!
I have avocado oil and olive oil in my cabinet now. But if I could replace them with clarified butter, that would be great!

[HaveFaithInGod]

I can't seem to find an authoratative opinion on the difference between ghee and clarified butter! Some say they are identical others say ghee is cooked longer until the milk solids on the bottom of the pan browns and adds a special nutty flavor that makes it ghee. Some say a great finesse is needed in the ghee cooking process so it will not become bitter from over browning the milk solids. Anyway, I've bought ghee and it's expensive so I plan to try this myself. I'll start with just a stick in a tiny sauce pan to see how it goes. It makes popcorn sing superano !

[faceplantakaraybowman]

New to channel, like what I see so far

[melissamartin]

first of all thank you for this video I have 2 questions 1 what is the difference between ghee and clarified butter? and 2 can you use salted butter?

[chevypreps]

I think I have a few milk solids in mine. They look just like the small amount you had in the final bowl on the counter.
Since salt is water soluble most of the salt will end up on the bottom with the solids.

[eamonxofarrell]

I would recommend using a Tea Strainer to remove the moisture from the top. Less waste. Also, unless you think that you have more than 3 months supply, do you really need to use Cheese Cloth?

[SeauxNOLALady]

Until I started working at one of the best prime steak houses in New Orleans, I didn’t know the importance of clarifying butter!

[insidethreewide]

Are you using salt or unsalted butter? Great video btw. Subbed, rung the bell and like 👍number 349 👏

[Retro.Studio]

Hi Scott, does the clarified butter stays liquid or does it become solid again?

[localppc]

Some people say the smoke point of butter is 250? So is it safe to say it’s in between 250 and 350?

[texasshire]

Would I need to adjust the boiling time if I want to make a half batch?

[destryholt]

Does it matter weather salted or unsalted?

[don_nskt]

Scott, what is the flavor of clarified butter? Like for instance, can you use it for flavoring or adding a butter flavor to something?

[SailingIndependence]

Guy:"Now you don't want to overcook it because then you'll be making ghee.."

Also guy: proceeds to make ghee.

[Formerfaulkner]

Clarified butter IS what you dip your lobster into. Ghee is solid.