Butter on a bike

[uvia]

Lol, I have just got this idea and I'm looking for opinions before to try it out.
So I'm looking for a way to make butter without: (a) using electricity, and (b) shaking too much with my hands - I have wrist troubles.

The idea that just came out is to put cream in a small plastic bottle, leaving the needed space of course. Tape the bottle under the pedal of a stationary bike (I have one totally forgotten) and just bike!

Do you think it would shake enough to make butter?

 

[i_am2bz]

 

[uvia]

lol, the whole thing makes me laugh a lot!

 

[i_am2bz]

Maybe you could strap the container to yourself & go for a run...? The possibilities are endless!

 

[urban dreamer]

Give it a shot and let us know how it gose!

 

[hwillm1977]

Our agricultural museum has one that a dog (or person), runs on a treadmill, and through a series of gears churns an entire barrel of butter... it takes our lab-pit bull mix about 30 minutes to make two gallons of butter

We only got to try it out on their open house day, then little kids were taking turns running on it... it's hilarious. I'd love to make something like that for my own house

 

[noobiechickenlady]

I read somewhere about a lady who used her rocking chair to churn her butter. Cannot for the life of me remember where I saw it, but she would grab her jar of cream, put it in her lap & then grab her knitting or whatever. Then she rocked while she worked on something else and the motion churned the butter.

They also make an ice cream maker that is a ball. You fill it & let the kids kick it around. I wonder if that would work for butter?

hwillm1977 that is awesome!

The bike idea sounds cool though! And from what I read, it's not the speed, but the slosh/impact that breaks the butterfat from the milk. I bet the bike would slosh it enough
Necessity is the mother of invention!

 

[FarmerChick]

why wait for an opinion to try it out?

go for it

churn is churn

and a bike pedal might whip up some good butter


when done, come back and post the results!


if you have bad wrists, this is a good alternative if it works....go for it now, get on that bike, do it and post results cool

 

[Denim Deb]

Noobie, I've heard of people churning butter that way too.

I haven't made butter since I was a kid and they still delivered milk to the door. Wonder how it would work if I strapped it on when I went for a ride on Misty?

 

[uvia]

Experiment was a success! This is going to be my way to make butter.