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Butter Production Timeline

A humorous cartoon illustration of an exhausted person endlessly churning butter in an old-fashioned butter churn, with clocks and calendars showing an impossibly long passage of time around them

How long does it take to make butter?

An echurnity!

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Did You Know?

Making butter by hand actually takes about 20-30 minutes of continuous churning! Butter is created by agitating cream until the fat molecules clump together and separate from the liquid buttermilk. It takes about 10 pounds of milk to make just one pound of butter!