2007-06-23 13:46:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Butter will burn, becoming brown before it vaporizes, so you won't really be boiling butter. You'll be boiling some nasty brown sludge.
Additionally, butter is made up of many things, each with their own boiling point. Some of these will boil off first, while others will undergo chemical reactions, creating the brown color.
You'd have better luck measuring the melting point of butter than the boiling point.
2007-06-23 13:51:00 · answer #1 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What you need is the temperature for clarification of butter. (I'm sorry, I don't know.) Take two to four sticks of butter and melt them in a frying pan. Heat strongly until the liquid begins to sputter (moisture vaporizes, and protein and salts form a scum on the surface). Heat strongly until the spitting stops. Spoon the scum of proteins and salts off the surface. Pour the hot liquid into a glass jar (In the sink! The jar may shatter from heat shock. In my experience, it doesn't). Let solidify into a translucent yellow solid. If too much bother, buy ghee Indian clarified butter in a supermarket.
2007-06-23 14:23:29 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-18 22:32:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tributyrin, bp = 288 C
2007-06-23 13:53:17 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋