Kilner Small Manual Butter Churner

Great bit of kit.

When Covid happened I started making my own things. Like cheese and bread. Then I started making butter in a jar. My world changed. LOVE MAKING BUTTER! So I decided to purchase this butter jar and wheel. Best decision I ever made. Great purchase. Highly recommend.

Excelente qualidade, original Kilner. Uma peça que uni o design retro, funcionalidade e qualidade. Ja testei e resultou em uma manteiga +buttermilk que adorei

Disclaimer: Butter stick molds in second photo are not included and are a separate purchase item. "Magical Butter 21UP Silicone Non-Stick Butter Tray" Pros: -Large size jar with wide mouth made cleaning far easier than other styles. The ability to get my hand into the jar to clean all angles is great. Now I just have to figure out how to more easily clean the lid and churn mechanism without having to go hose it off in the yard. (Butter and butter residue down the sink is a horrible idea don't do it.) -The quart of cream resulted in enough butter to make four full sized sticks of butter. Love that it came out to just the right amount. -Instruction booklet contains example butter recipes for cinnamon honey butter and chili lime butter. Greatly looking forward to trying those. Garlic butter is another idea that comes to mind but that should be simple to figure out myself. -Mechanism is large enough to hold in lap while cranking if you were to sit and watch tv or youtube videos while churning, though the mechanism also makes enough noise to be slightly inconvenient there but the quality design and output makes that very worth it. Cons: -Butter is hard to clean up, but this is not a downside of the design but just a part of life. -Downside to the way the lid clamps on, but depending on how you hold it the jar can begin trying to rotate and wander, but the lid remained securely clamped on regardless. -Not as silent as I expected, the gears and hand crank tend to squeak and make other noises at times. -Not sure if it is supposed to but there's a little bit of wobble in the central spindle right out of the box, but aside from a tactile feeling when it happens the churn works great and that's not a complaint. -The instructions didn't say how much cream to put in, and given the store page said "Holds 30oz" I went right ahead and put a whole quart of cream into it and went to churning. The end result was technically butter but due to the volume of cream I spent about an hour churning before realizing the butter was done but just soft and spreadable due to the volume and it not separating perfectly so I ended up mixing buttermilk into the butter via overchurning. That said it made great butter it's just softer and won't last as long in the fridge, but a bit of explanation in the instructions would have saved me a lot of time. Now I know for next time though. Overall very happy with the churn and look forward to it improving my baking escapades.

Costly but very good product to home.