• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • My Utensil Crock Logo
  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Menu Ideas
  • Cooking Club
    • Cooking Club Themes
    • Cooking Club {Favorite Recipes}
  • Cooking Classes
  • eBook
    • Think Like a Lawyer, Blog Like a Pro
    • Legal Terms Bloggers Should Know
  • About
    • About Me
    • About the Ingredients
    • About the Pictures
    • About the Recipes
    • About My Utensil Crock {Tech + Legal}
  • Contact

My Utensil Crock

organizing my most useful kitchen tools

  • Recipes
  • Menu Ideas
  • Cooking Club
    • Cooking Club Themes
    • Cooking Club {Favorite Recipes}
  • Cooking Classes
  • eBook
    • Think Like a Lawyer, Blog Like a Pro
    • Legal Terms Bloggers Should Know
  • About
    • About Me
    • About the Ingredients
    • About the Pictures
    • About the Recipes
    • About My Utensil Crock {Tech + Legal}
  • Contact
    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter

04.09.2017

How to: Brown Butter

How to Brown Butter by My Utensil Crock

If you have never browned butter, it’s time.

I don’t know the whole science behind browned butter, and you aren’t going to hear about milkfat and clarified butter* from me (* I am pretty sure those terms are related to browned butter). Just a lot of step-by-step photos showing you How to Brown Butter, and untold praise of this magic sauce.

This photo is JUST BUTTER:

How to Make Brown Butter by My Utensil Crock

You might see “brown butter” or “browned butter” sauces on menus, for example with gnocchi. Maybe you even order it and have no idea what it means or how it’s different from regular butter, but you know you love it. In baked goods, it adds a “what is in this???” quality. In a good way, of course. The best of ways.

Let’s do some learning here on this sunny Sunday.

To make brown butter, all you need to do is put your butter in a pot and heat it until it cooks. Yep! I usually am a little lazy and throw the whole stick in, but if you chop your butter into smaller pieces, it will go a little faster. The whole process takes about 5 minutes, and I recommend using medium-high heat.

The butter will go through a few phases. Make sure you stir, scraping the bottom of the pot using a silicone spatula, very often, especially when your butter is completely liquified. The little brown bits will stick and burn unless you keep them moving.

So first, the butter will melt and get cloudy.
How to Make Brown Butter by My Utensil Crock

And then it will get foamy.

How to Make Brown Butter by My Utensil Crock

And then it will form large bubbles – we shall call this “bubbly” –  it will almost look like a very small, buttery bubble bath.

How to Make Brown Butter by My Utensil Crock

Those bubbles will get frothy. Don’t forget to keep scraping the bottom!

How to Make Brown Butter by My Utensil Crock

And then, something magical will happen. Your kitchen will start to smell like butterscotch. I can’t explain it, I can only share it. When you get that smell, or you start to see brown flecks, TUNE IN. Keep stirring as the butter cooks! You are almost there.

When it looks like the below photo, with dark brown flecks throughout – or, flecky – you are done. If you cook it for too long, those dark brown flecks will turn a very very dark brown – black, some might say – and you will miss that magical window of smooth, rich brown butter.

How to Make Brown Butter by My Utensil Crock

p.s. I thought I made up the word “flecky” but I looked it up and it is an actual word, the adjective form of fleck, meaning – wait for it – full of flecks.

Although brown butter is delicious in baked goods, I would not recommend just subbing it in for regular butter one-for-one. Because it’s liquid, it will mess with cooking times and spreading. Recipes that specify to use brown butter will have the ingredients adjusted appropriately. Give it a whirl!

Here are a few recipes from My Utensil Crock using brown butter:

Brown Butter Double Chocolate Chunk Cookie Bars

Banana Bread {Caramelized Bananas + Brown Butter}

How to Make Brown Butter by My Utensil CrockMore to come! I do tend to save butter for baking, and my main dishes tend toward the healthier side, but maybe I will muster up a brown butter gnocchi dish so you can see it. I am so selfless. 😉

If you liked this post, I recommend:

  • How to: Make Buttermilk at Home {Two Ingredients!}How to: Make Buttermilk at Home {Two Ingredients!}
  • How to: Microwave BaconHow to: Microwave Bacon
  • Homemade Onion Herb MixHomemade Onion Herb Mix
  • How to: Make Kale ChipsHow to: Make Kale Chips
  • How to: Make Pumpkin PureeHow to: Make Pumpkin Puree
  • Fave: Food ProcessorFave: Food Processor
  • Print
  • Email
  • Tweet

Posted In: How To

Reader Interactions

Tell me what you think! Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

I love healthy food, but I love it more when it doesn’t taste like healthy food. Best of both worlds! Click around to find some of my tried and true staples - and new recipes too, whether my own ideas, inspired by other blogs, torn from the pages of a magazine, or passed through friends or family. Learn more about me and My Utensil Crock HERE.

– Chicken Noodle Soup
– Banana Cookies
– Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
– 20-minute Breakfast Platter
– Easy Homemade Meatballs

Join Me!

Follow My Utensil Crock

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
Buy Think Like a Lawyer NOW!

My Latest Pins

  • Ga’s Easy Blueberry Coffee Cake
  • Ga’s Easy Blueberry Coffee Cake
  • One-Pot Stovetop Lasagna Ragu with Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage
  • One-Pot Stovetop Lasagna Ragu with Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage
  • Ga’s Brownies
  • Ga’s Brownies
Follow Me on Pinterest

Footer Widget Header

Subscribe by email to receive posts, recipes, and tips straight to your inbox!

Footer

Connect with Me

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Search This Site

Archives

Whirlwind week in Miami for work (aren’t all wor Whirlwind week in Miami for work (aren’t all work trips whirlwinds?) but got to sneak in lunch at @casatuacucina before heading to the airport 👌🏻
🚨Fun night alert🚨 @uvalaw #uvalaw20threunion 🚨Fun night alert🚨 @uvalaw #uvalaw20threunion #firstgusburger
Gas station sandwiches. IYKYK. Gas station sandwiches. IYKYK.
20th @uvalaw reunion weekend begins! Cheers! 20th @uvalaw reunion weekend begins! Cheers!
Savory smoothies to shake things up. Savory smoothies to shake things up.
An afternoon tea ☕️ for cooking club this mont An afternoon tea ☕️ for cooking club this month
“23 hours in Dallas” @hardeightbbq “23 hours in Dallas” @hardeightbbq
Cakesicles and chocolate covered pretzels by @suga Cakesicles and chocolate covered pretzels by @sugarydreamsbymel - she can make anything you can think of. If you are within driving distance of Silver Spring, check it out. I was looking for something special for an engagement party I hosted and this was just what we needed ✨
Quick and dirty pic of made from scratch gumbo and Quick and dirty pic of made from scratch gumbo and dirty rice with bacon.
A rare crossover post with @housenotions - I fired A rare crossover post with @housenotions - I fired up the @bluestarcooking charbroiler today and grilled yogurt-marinated chicken breast. I slice them in half (thickness) to make sure they get the perfect ratio of char and are actually cooked inside.
Follow on Instagram

Copyright © 2012 - 2020 · My Utensil Crock, LLC · Blog Design by Little Blue Deer
Privacy Policy

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.