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What is butter?
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Can you spread it? Can you melt it? Can you bake with it? Can you cook things with it? You butter believe it! But what is butter? Or rather, whatter is butter? How do we turn cream into butter, and what is happening at the molecular level? Let's find out.
References from this episode
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/they_did_what_to_your_milk
https://www.compoundchem.com/2018/06/02/milk/
Biochemistry, 4th edition - Garrett & Grisham
https://edu.rsc.org/primary-science/how-to-make-butter/4011889.article
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836175/…
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