Can you make butter from goat's milk in the Magic Bullet or blender?

[Marianne]

Well, that pretty much says it all. Can you? I'm getting two gallons of goats milk in a couple days, and would like to make butter. DH#1 says in India, it's a white, unsalted butter called Makan (translated sort of from Hindi). He said it puts the yellow sticks of butter in my fridge to shame.

 

[kstaven]

Most of the cream will not separate like it does in cows milk. So the cream yield you have to work with will be low. To a good yield of cream from goats milk you really need a separator.

You can make butter in a blender. But here is a caution. The higher speeds that a blender rotates at damages the fats and will reduce the shelf life of the butter. For most the butter never lasts long enough for that to be of any consequence.

 

[Rebbetzin]

Well, I have between 1.5 and 3 gallons of goat milk each week, and it does "separate" after setting a while, but, there is only a tiny amt. cream. Not enough, in my opinion, to make any significant amt of butter. If you can get raw cow milk you would have better success getting a decent amt of cream. Goat milk is said to be naturally homogenized.

Why not make some cheese with it?

 

[elevan]

Here's 2 ways of doing it from BYH:

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=13161

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=7690

 

[Marianne]

Thanks for the replies and the links. I was surprised to see that you could use a food processer to make butter. I thought the speeds would be too high, but I had no idea why until now. The addition of the buttermilk on the second link also surprised me.

Yes, the cheese sounds like a good idea. He likes to cook so maybe we'll give it a whirl.