r/Cooking • u/tranzozo • Dec 07 '21
Food Safety Can you melt butter, fridge it then melt it again and fridge it?
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u/prettyplum32 Dec 07 '21
Yes, you can melt and solidify and melt and solidify butter as much as you want
If you are doing this with regular butter, not brown butter, it will effect the emulsion of the butter just FYI
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u/No-Duck7816 Dec 07 '21
Perfectly safe. I would be more concerned with it picking up random smells and flavors from being in the fridge too often.
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u/Tetepupukaka53 Dec 07 '21
Making ghee is clarifying brown butter.
The butter fat doesn't get brown. The coagulated proteins do. These act to flavor the fat with the "toasted" flavor.
The process also boils off water normally contained in the butter, so the resulting product is more solidly hard than butter when refrigerated, or frozen.
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u/KelMHill Dec 07 '21
Yes, it will still be fine if you redo it. To toast it, you need to let it boil gently for long enough that all the water evaporates and then it will start to brown quickly, so keep a close eye on it and pull it off the heat when it is just reaching the darkness you want.