How is butter made? – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.hey it's Danny people make sculptures out of many different things for example you might have made a sculpture out of clay before but check these sculptures out they aren't made out of clay these sculptures are made out of something much more surprising and it's something that you might have even eaten before can you tell what these sculptures are made of it's butter I'm serious people make sculptures out of butter so cool someone named Lola is curious about butter let's give Lola a call now hi Danny hi Lola I have a question for you how is better made ooh that's a great question while you probably haven't made any sculptures out of butter maybe you've put it on your pancakes at breakfast or maybe onto bread at dinner or maybe even made pies or cookies with it yum but where does butter even come from Legend has it that thousands of years ago in Africa a traveler had a bag of milk hanging from his horse after traveling a long way he got really thirsty and reach for the bag to take a drink and that's when he discovered something amazing some of the milk had turned into butter okay we're not sure if the legend of the traveler discovering butter is true but it very well could be because believe it or not a similar thing can happen even today milk can turn into butter when you put it in a big bag and do this and it can turn into butter when you put it in a machine like this one or this one it can even turn into butter when you put it in a jar and do this and those aren't the only ways there are lots and lots of ways you can turn milk into butter but they all have one thing in common have you noticed what it is before I go on I'm curious what do all these ways to make butter have in common now would be a good time to pause the video and discuss okay you ready I'm not sure how you answered but I bet some of you might have said shaking all these ways are shaking the milk whether it's on a bumpy horse ride like the traveler or in one of those churning machines if you take the cream from milk and shake it a bunch you end up with water and butter and here's why milk is mostly made out of water but it also has other stuff in it like this see those little circles those are tiny pieces of something called fat and to make butter you need to separate those fat pieces from the water part of the milk and you can do that by shaking it see when you shake milk all the pieces of fat begin to stick together in clumps kind of like tiny pieces of clay would stick together if you bald it up but here's the thing when you first start shaking the milk air bubbles get trapped in there too those air bubbles make the milk all fluffy like this you probably recognize this stuff it's whipped cream now whipped cream can be used as a topping on ice cream Sundays but if you want to make butter you've got to be patient and keep shaking and shaking and shaking until all the pieces of fat separate from the water and turn into this butter it's that simple you can even make it at home now most kinds of milk at the store won't work all that well but there is a special kind called heavy cream that works great just put the cream in a jar start to shake shake and shake and if you shake it long enough that cream will eventually turn into butter so cool so in summary whether you shake it in a jar at school or at home or in a modern spinning machine like this one butter is made by shaking the cream from milk when you shake milk the pieces of fat in in it begin to separate from the water and Clump and Clump and Clump together until it turns into butter that's all for this week's question thanks Lola for asking it we want to know what you're curious about it's time to cast your vote we picked three questions that we're thinking about answering when this video is done playing click on the one you're most excited to see answered your vote will help us plan for future mini lessons there are Mysteries all around us stay curious and see you next week