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Yeah, we made butter.

Homemade butter and some tasty beer bread

Also, it's been about 7 months since I last posted, so...whatever. Girlfriend bought a house, we've been renovating it, and I'm crazy busy with my job working retail and climbing the corporate ladder (WTF? Never thought I'd be doing that).

But more importantly, we made our own homemade butter, and by we I mean me, Girlfriend's brother (we'll call him Bro) and Girlfriend's cousin (we'll call him Cousin). 

Butter's really easy to make. All you need is heavy cream and a mixer. Add salt so it's more tasty. Whip the cream until it's...you know...whipped cream, and then just keep on whippin.

You have to sing Devo's "Whip It, Whip It Good" at this point

Eventually, it goes past light fluffy whipped cream and becomes something butterier. But it's not butter yet! Keep going.

Oh yeah! Like that. Don't stop.

For a while you'll be like, it's gotta be butter at this point. But really, don't stop yet.

Whip me more.

 You have to keep going until the liquid separates. This is called buttermilk! So creative.

Big props to my hand model.

 Pour it through a strainer...

Yummy butter clumps

And keep the buttermilk if you want, you can use it for pancakes and shit.

Make pancakes out of me. And then put butter on the pancakes. Omigod this is blowing my mind right now...

Then, if you want the butter to keep for more than 24 hours and not go bad, you have to wash off the rest of the buttermilk. So you cover it in ice-cold water and sort of squish it, pouring off the water and adding more until the water comes away clear.

It's not real cooking unless you get your hands dirty

Then you have butter! You can put it on some bread or do other butter stuff with it.

Photo taken with my phone's "food" setting. I think all it does is hyper-saturate the colors and make you feel like a tool...

Or! You can turn it into cinnabutter: mix with honey and cinnamon until it tastes like a diabetic coma.

Enjoy!