CLARIFIED BUTTER

Solid butter may look like a single, homogeneous

substance, but melt it in a pan, and it quickly
becomes apparent that it’s made up of a few
different things.

• Butterfat makes up around 80 percent of the
  weight of butter (up to 84 percent for some high-
  end “European-style” butters, or as low as 65
  percent for some fresh-churned, farm stand–
  style butters). Because there are many different
  fats that make up butterfat, each one of which