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Should I heat the pan before adding butter?

To pan-fry with butter, preheat your pan over medium heat and add butter. When it is melted, add your ingredients.

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You are probably familiar with the wonderful benefits of baking with good-quality butter. In the Test Kitchens, we often hear that you only trust Land O Lakes® Butter because of the quality and consistency it brings to your sweet baked goods. You may not be as familiar with the benefits of cooking with butter, but the dairy sweet flavors naturally present in butter are a natural complement to many foods. Butter also provides a desirable mouth feel described as smooth and creamy, that is especially important in sauces. When cooking with any kind of fat, it is important to consider the taste and texture it imparts to foods. When sautéing, ingredients easily absorb the flavors of the fat, which can be noticed in the final recipe. In soups and stews, fat can be added during cooking and later removed, but the flavor remains. When cooking with butter (or any type of fat), it’s important to avoid heating to the point when it begins to smoke. This signals that the oil is decomposing. Fats with a high smoke point (420°F to 445°F) such as sunflower, canola or peanut oil are suitable for high-heat cooking. Butter, which has a low smoke point (250°F), is suitable for cooking that requires moderate or low heat. There are a variety of cooking methods that work well with butter. In the Test Kitchens, we have found these three methods work best for butter.

Pan Fry

Butter works great for frying thin pieces of meat or fish where light browning is desired. It also works well for vegetables that have been cut into uniform sizes. To pan-fry with butter, preheat your pan over medium heat and add butter. When it is melted, add your ingredients. Cook,stir, watch closely, and adjust heat accordingly.

Caramelize

Caramelizing brings out the natural sugar flavors in food. To caramelize, cook chopped or thinly-sliced vegetables in a small amount of butter over low heat for about 10 minutes. They should begin to caramelize, and become sweeter.

Sauces

Butter has a distinctive flavor that contributes to mouth feel in many different types of sauces. Its flavor is mandatory in classic white sauces, but it also works wonderfully in tomato-based sauces and meat-juice-based pan sauces. Many flavors can be added to butter in sauces, including lemon juice, parsley, white or red wine, white or red wine vinegar, or mustard. Next time you pull out your recipes, think about working butter into your cooking. You’ll be glad you did!

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Why is USA butter white?

In the United States, the diet of cows varies from those in Europe and Oceania, and there are also breed differences. The level of the natural pigment carotene in milk, derived from the diet of cows, is the strongest determinant in whether butter appears yellow.

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Butter has a natural pale-yellow color but can range from deep yellow to white depending on feed used and the breed of cow the milk originates from. In the United States, the diet of cows varies from those in Europe and Oceania, and there are also breed differences. The level of the natural pigment carotene in milk, derived from the diet of cows, is the strongest determinant in whether butter appears yellow. For areas preferring butter that is more on the yellow side, coloring can be used. At Idaho Milk Products, IdaPro Cream is pasteurized and shipped on the very day of milking. When fresh milk from our dairies arrives at our facility, the cream is separated from the whole milk and pasteurized and chilled to 36 degrees Fahrenheit before it’s loaded into tankers and shipped to our customers. Cream that is IdaPro fresh provides the highest quality key ingredient for butter manufacturers, full of fresh dairy flavor and free of off flavors and odors that result from “stale” or “aged” cream.

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