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[tripletfeb]

So what do you do with the whey?

I dump mine but now I'm rethinking this

ok,ok,ok. What does someone making homemade butter do with the left over whey? I’m guessing the whey supplement manufacturers don’t have whey collectors scooting about collecting whey from homemade butter making homes. Now I made you my go to for tech support and here you are giving me grief.

The leftover liquid from butter making is buttermilk, not whey

So does his rider, singing the blues.




I don't drain the whey from my yogurt. Draining the whey would turn it into Greek yogurt. I don't do that. There's protein in the whey, why would I drain it off?

When I make butter, what's left behind is sweet buttermilk. It is nothing at all like the thick, clumpy, tangy cultured buttermilk you buy at the grocery. It's more like a sweet skim milk. Delicious! ETA it is NOT whey!

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I just made yogurt yesterday. I do drain off some of the whey, because I like THICK yogurt.

Uses for whey:
Mix it in with the chickens' feed to make their mash snack
Use it to cook rice
Use it to make bread
Use it to make soup
I'm going to use some tomorrow to make grownies.

A garden use is to pour it on blueberry plants. Last resort is to just dump it in the compost. It never goes down the drain. Too many good things in it.

Interesting about the blueberries. What does it do for them?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

……I meant I understand.

I knew what you meant!

 

[Rick589]

I knew what you meant!

and stupidly I knew it was buttermilk leftover from making butter BUT I never want to miss an opportunity to make myself look like off…..just a bit. Did I hit the mark?

 

[Rick589]

I dump mine but now I'm rethinking this

The leftover liquid from butter making is buttermilk, not whey

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Interesting about the blueberries. What does it do for them?

it would lower the Ph

 

[AntiqueB]

Wait. . . What's whey from?

 

[Rick589]

I knew what you meant!

Always like to make sure

 

[Rick589]

Wait. . . What's whey from?

Let me see if I can make myself look stupid again. It would be what is leftover after rennet is added to separate the curd when making cheese. How’d I do?

 

[Rick589]

Certainly managed to run this thread into a rabbit trail didn’t I?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Let me see if I can make myself look stupid again. It would be what is leftover after rennet is added to separate the curd when making cheese. How’d I do?

One source of whey is the liquid drained off from making yogurt, yes. It's also a byproduct of making cheese. Remember Little Miss Muffet, sitting on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey? The curds are the cheese. The whey is the liquid squeezed or separated out.

 

[tripletfeb]

it would lower the Ph

And I'm supposed to believe you? You thought butter liquid was whey!