Fresh from the fridge, the butter is hardly spreadable. There are little tricks to get them spreadable.
This is how butter is made
As soon as the milk arrives at the dairy, it is separated into cream and skimmed milk. The cream is then heated.
After the cream has been heated (pasteurization), it is sent to a tank called the cream ripener. There it rests together with cultures for a maximum of 20 hours until the cream has a slightly sour taste.
The cream is then processed in a butter-making machine with many kneading processes. This should create a solid but still spreadable butter.
Now the finished butter is portioned and packaged.
Why does butter solidify in the fridge?
Butter reacts very differently to cold compared to margarine. This is due to the different fat composition of the two dairy products, but there are more differences between the two items. Butter contains more saturated fat, which hardens when cold. Whipping the butter also plays an important role, because the consistency changes with the size of the fat globules. The composition of the animal feed also influences the spreadability and the ingredients. For example, if cows get a lot of green fodder, the butter contains more omega-3 fatty acids. On the other hand, corn and a lot of concentrated feed lower this ingredient again.
Soften the butter with water
Spreading the butter quickly at room temperature does not work. You don’t always want to or can’t put the fat spread in the microwave and so every day people put one or more holes in their bread slices, which are now filled with a whole piece of firm butter. But with the following simple trick, the problem is now over.
Here’s how it works
Get a glass jar that’s slightly larger than the butter. Now pour hot water into this and let it stand for a few minutes. Meanwhile, the glass absorbs the heat of the water and you can pour off the water. Now put the warm glass over your butter and wait a few minutes. After just a short time, your butter will be wonderfully spreadable and can be spread on bread or processed in a dough without any problems.
Make butter spreadable with lunch box
If you still want to have your butter ready to spread without any effort, you can achieve this with a water-cooled ceramic butter dish. With this storage, the butter always stays fresh and soft. The butter dish doesn’t even need to be placed in the fridge. Only the lower part of the container is filled with cold tap water. The idea of the ceramic jar came about at a time when there was neither electricity nor a refrigerator, which is why it has a long tradition.
