What can I do with melted butter?

[crimedoc1]

My son is doing his science fair project on melted butter.  Don't ask. Sixth grade science fair is crazy, that's all I can say.  Anyway, he's looking at whether different types of butter melt at different speeds and is looking at four types of butter - regular salted, regular unsalted, organic salted, and organic unsalted.  He'll be melting four

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[onedotfour]

get 2 different tubs and make honey butter and garlic butter. Its ok to mix them, theyll re solidify in the fridge

[crimedoc1]

Ooooh, garlic butter! Yum. We all love garlic bread. I'll definitely have to do some of that.

[onedotfour]

garlic butter is way more useful than honey butter, u can put it on veggies and use it for cooking if ur not worried about the calories

[crimedoc1]

Unfortunately, I *am* worried about calories, darn it. But if a dab of garlic butter on top will get my son to eat more veggies, it may be worth it. Fortunately honey butter doesn't do anything for me, personally, so that's not a temptation. I probably should keep the salted and unsalted butter separate, though.

[malnpudl]

Holy moly, that's a lot of butter.

Make pound cake, maybe?

[crimedoc1]

I know! I don't normally buy 16 sticks of butter in a whole YEAR, let alone in one month! I only use it for some specific recipes, usually around the holidays.

[edgeofthewoods]

Clarify it and make ghee to use for other cooking later on.

[firehorse]

This was going to be my suggestion. If not that, just pour it all back into mason jars and use it normally.

[chinchiller]

This is what I would do. I use clarified butter almost exclusively for frying and sautéing.

[full_metal_ox]

You can flavor ghee, too; niter kibbeh is a staple in Ethiopian cuisine.

[onedotfour]

just found 14 flavors of butter u can make

[crimedoc1]

If I make flavored butters, can they be frozen, and for how long do you think? They might be nice to use during Passover on boring old matza (grin) but that's not until next spring. Hmm.... matzo brei cooked in flavored butter... YUM!

[ionracas]

8 months

[cissa]

Honestly- butter- and other fats- last really well in the freezer. Flavor may start to fade eventually, but they don't go bad nore get freezer burn.

If the butter is melted first, though, you will probably want to clarify it before making the flavored butters; most of them that I know of use soft- not melted- butter, and the melting causes separation that cannot be reversed.

[cougars_catnip]

make cookies. :) if you melt the butter first it makes the cookies bake up soft and chewy.

[stryck]

http://honestcooking.com/2011/06/02/awesome-hershey-brownies/

This easy brownie recipe uses melted butter. One stick per batch!