With a jar you need to half fill the jar, put the lid on and shake it for anything between half an hour and an hour. This is hard work, especially for any quantity and I’ve not tried it myself. Always tuned in to the customers requests and the market trends, SIMON FRÈRES has developed a wide range of continuous butter making machines.

make butter at home — just one ingredient required How to make butter at home — just one ingredient required

Making butter is remarkably easy and very satisfying. In recent years the concerns about fats, cholesterol and heart disease have made butter an almost taboo food but I believe that, like most natural foods, in moderation it will do no harm. I have even heard that the fats in low fat spreads are more harmful than the natural animal fats in butter. Having said that, sometimes you will find the supermarket has reduced it’s cream as it approaches the end of it’s shelf life. One Christmas Eve we found our supermarket had a load of cream reduced to 5p for a large tub. Our new generation machines, the CONTIMAB PROFLEX®, is characterized by its flexibility and advanced technology. b) perfectly stable butter composition resulting from low basic moisture which allows easy adjustment by dosing pump. Due to this method, butter can be produced exactly in accordance with current legislation.To salt do not add more than a small half teaspoon for each half pound (250 gr) – half that amount suits me but I don’t take a lot of salt. I’ve never managed to freeze cream so making butter was the ideal way to take advantage of a bargain and store it for use in the future. Large flexible churning characteristics for all types of cream with a fat content which could vary between 30 and 60%.

Frères Continuous Butter Making Machine - Contimab Easyflex Simon Frères Continuous Butter Making Machine - Contimab Easyflex

Ability to process any kind of cream, fresh, recombined from melted butter or liquid AMF, possibly including any type of vegetable oil at various percentages and producing any type of butter. Let the cream reach room temperature, around 20 C (68 F) is ideal – this is critical. Don’t heat it but leave the pots out of the fridge for a good few hours to warm up. If you have a cold kitchen, put them into the living room to warm up. Now we are ready to make butter. While maintaining the strengths that have made the reputation of the CONTIMAB®, we have developed a new range of churns, even more accessible. The CONTIMAB EASYFLEX® range is the latest model of the SIMON Frères butter churns.

You can also add crushed garlic or dried herbs to make flavoured butter if you wish at this stage. Shaping the Butter You do not need much equipment to make butter at home, a bowl and large jar with a lid being the minimum. If you have a food processor or an electric whisk then the task will be much easier. Unless you have your own cow or access to a dairy, you are not going to save any money by making your own butter. As with most commodity products in the supermarket, the retail price of butter is less than you can buy the raw materials for at retail The CONTIMAB® range has been designed as user-friendly, with maximum flexibility, efficiency, and ease of maintenance.