Butter-washed booze and booze-washed butter?

[IowaGirl]

Found this today while idly perusing the depths of the internet.

I've heard of smoking various liquors, but I hadn't heard about washing liquor with butter. Apparently it's a "thing"? Wondering what y'all thought of this idea.

If anyone here has tried it, did you have a favorite combination of booze and butter? Or was it more hype than anything?

This info is from an article on the America's Test Kitchen website. Since their articles are behind a paywall, I'll share the basic method from the article for those who can't get it direct from the source --

".... Butter-Wash Your Booze (and Booze-Wash Your Butter)

1. Grate 8 ounces of chilled butter and place in 16-ounce jar. (If using melted bacon fat or brown butter, which have a more intense flavor, only use 2-3 ounces.)

2. Add about 7 ounces of liquor of your choice, or enough to cover grated butter.

3. Shake to combine.

4. Cover jar and keep refrigerated for at least 24 hours, swirling contents occasionally. Melted fat will solidify during this time. (Flavor will continue to intensify after 24 hours, but more gradually.)

5. Strain liquor and butter through cheesecloth-lined strainer over bowl, pressing butter with spoon to extract liquid.

6. Scrape butter from cheesecloth into an airtight container, and reserve flavored liquor in sealed jar or bottle.

The butter can now be kept in the refrigerator and used any time you need butter.

Simultaneously, the liquor has been gently infused with butter flavor and can be stored indefinitely, then sipped or used in cocktails...."

Source: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/...code=NSCIL27FB

[IowaGirl]

Here's another article at Serious Eats: https://www.seriouseats.com/science-...twashing-works

[Oak Smoke]

That’s interesting. I may have to try the butter and Kahlua. My wife makes a butter infused coffee that’s very good.

[IowaGirl]

I have occasionally blended butter with brewed hot coffee and that's good. What I make is not a true infusion, in the herbalist and culinary meaning of the word -- you're supposed to drink the whole mixture. Supposedly butter coffee is some health food / keto thing, but I don't subscribe to that point of view -- it's just something different to try.

[Oak Smoke]

I’m sure what I called an infusion is just well blended into a suspension.

[IowaGirl]

Tea is an example of an infusion in that the tea leaves are steeped in water, the leaves removed from the liquid, and only the resulting liquid is drunk.

This butter-infused booze is essentially an infusion -- you infuse the butter into the booze, remove the butter, and drink the booze.

In the case of "butter coffee", at least how I make it, you drink the whole mixture, so it's not strictly an infusion

[texastweeter]

New meaning to butter scotch and butter rum