Today on Sugar Spun Run I'll be showing you how to make a browned butter.
Hey everyone! Sam here and today i'm really excited to be showing you how to make
brown butter. Now this is a super simple technique that anybody can do at home,
but i know some of you have mentioned you're a little intimidated by browning
butter. You've never done it before so i'm going to be walking you through the
steps today. Believe me. It's actually very easy. Now the first thing you're
going to want to grab is a medium sized saucepan and let's go ahead and head
over to our stovetop. Now one quick note about the saucepan is i always like to
use a light-colored saucepan. As you can see I'm using my stainless-steel one today.
I love cast-iron, but I never use cast iron because that has a dark or black bottom and it's almost impossible to
tell when the butter is browning and that visual cue is so important to
knowing when your brown butter is finished. Now today we're going to be
browning one cup, or two sticks of butter. Now of course you can scale up this recipe
and brown more or you can scale it down and do less. That's fine. I'm just going to add these to my saucepan.
Turn your stove top heat to low or medium low and we're just going to let that butter melt slowly. Don't crank
up the heat yet because then you're going to start browning it prematurely.
Now when you're browning butter I don't recommend using a metal utensil, like a
metal spoon, and that's just because the handle tends to get really hot while
you're working with that hot butter in the skillet. I like to use a heat proof utensil like a rubber spatula,
rubber heatproof spatula, or a wooden spoon, or even a whisk that has an insulated handle.
Once your butter has completely melted you'll want to turn your stove top heat to just above medium heat.
Keep stirring occasionally while your butter heats up.
Pretty soon your butter should start bubbling and popping. Now at this point you're going to want to start
stirring pretty much constantly. Just keep swirling your spatula or your spoon
through the butter and make sure you're scraping the sides and bottom of your
saucepan so that the butter doesn't start to burn.
Just keep stirring while your butter sizzles and pops.
Whatever you do do not walk away from your butter while it's browning that is the easiest way to burn it.
Now this is sizzling and popping because we are cooking the water out of
our butter. Most butter has about 15 to 20 percent water and we're cooking this
out of our butter, enriching it and then ultimately we'll be browning those milk
solids that are found in the butter. That is what gives this butter such a good
flavor when it's finished cooking. Once the sizzling and popping starts to slow
down, this is when you really need to be careful and keep an eye on your butter.
Now at this point you're going to be looking for that butter to start to be
turning brown. So you see we have some foam here I'm just trying to, as I'm
swirling my spatula through the butter, I'm just looking for any sign that it's starting to turn brown.
We have a little bit of brown here. I'm just gonna take this just a little bit further.
Alright if you can see that it's nice and brown
so we want to immediately remove it from the heat.
Now this saucepan is really hot, so if you leave your brown butter in the
saucepan it's going to keep cooking and could even end up burning your butter so
what I recommend is as soon as you remove that saucepan from the heat,
immediately pour your butter into a heat proof bowl. That'll stop it from cooking
and it's going to keep you from burning your butter.
And make sure you scrape all of those brown bits out of your saucepan because that is what gives this butter such a good flavor.
Now at this point all that's left to do is wait for the butter
to cool and then you can use it in any recipe that calls for browned butter.
Like I said, this is one of my all-time favorite techniques to really take any
baked good to the next level. Brown butter has such a good flavor and
your house is gonna smell amazing when you're finished making it.
That is how simple it is to make brown butter at home. If you guys try this one out please
let me know what you think. Let me know if this video was helpful to you today. I
always love hearing from you. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.