100 Days of Science #92-- Homemade Butter

I realized the other day that while I talked about making homemade butter several times in our homeschooling career we never actually took the time to make any!  My younger two boys vaguely remembered making butter when they were in pre-school but Ian never had.  

I quickly assembled our ingredients: a carton of heavy cream and a glass jar.  



Then I asked them HOW they think it works.  

Alec is my resident baker so he knows that if you whip heavy cream you'll get whipping cream.  He hypothesized that shaking it longer and harder would make the cream thicker until we ended up with butter.  

We filled our jar 1/2 way with cream and began shaking.  


My intent was to stop after a few minutes and see the actual whipping cream but my boy must have been shaking harder than I thought because in just a few minutes we could already see the butter and the butter cream (the milky stuff that's left over from making butter). 





I explained to the boys that the fat molecules in the heavy cream end up clumping together when shaken making up the butter and leaving behind the buttermilk.


Others in this series:
53. Iodine and Starch Experiment
54. Flouride and Calcium Experiment
55. Botanical Gardens in Winter
56.  Making Cell Models
57. Which Has More Water; Ice or Snow?
58. Exploding Snow and Water Baggies
59.  Exploring Minerals
60. Visiting the Hartford Science Museum
61-63. 3 STEM Bridge Challenges
64. Making Models of the Earth
65. Plate Techtonics with Graham Crackers
66.  Homemade Lava Lamp
67.  Science Movies We're Watching
68.
Index Card Towers

69.  Botany at the Botanical Gardens
70. Best Board Games for Science 
71. Homemade Frozen Yogurt Pops
72.  Starburst Rock Cycle 
73. & 74. Sinking a Marshmallow
75. Jumping Conversation Hearts 
76-78. Building a Paper Airplane 3 Ways 
79. Learning About Hummingbirds 
80.  Planting an Herb Garden 
81. Mushroom Spores 
82. - 84.  Penny Saturation Experiments 
85. Sink or Float?
86. Disappearing Ink 
87. Sedment Layer Jars
88. Tie Dye Science 
89-91. DNA Experiments 

Comments

  1. I bet this is so yummy. Would love to have some on an English muffin this morn. Have a great day

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    1. I was thinking it would have been perfect with one of Alec's homemade English muffins.

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  2. There is nothing like homemade butter. You do the coolest projects with your boys. :)

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    1. What a great thin to make :) Thanks so much for sharing your post with us at Creative Mondays.

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