clarify

Intermediate 🍳 Food / Culinary

Definition

Removing impurities from butter (making ghee) or clearing cloudy stock until it's transparent. The pursuit of purity through heat and patience, or egg whites if you're making consommé.

Example Usage

Clarify two pounds of butter for the sauce station, and skim off all the milk solids.

Origin

From Latin 'clarificare' (to make clear)

Fun Fact

Clarified butter can be heated to much higher temperatures than whole butter without burning because you've removed the milk solids that scorch around 250°F.

Source: Classical French cooking techniques

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