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butter churn
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device used to turn cream into butter through stirring and agitation
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- agricultural tool
- Subclass of
- machine
- Image
- Huy 136 musee barattes.JPG
- Has use
- churning
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- Commons category
- Butter churns
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- product or material produced
- butter
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Encyclopedic overview
A barrel-type butter churn A typical plunger-type butter churn used by American pioneers A paddle butter churn A butter churn is a device used to convert cream into butter, a process known as churning. This is done through a mechanical process, frequently via a pole inserted through the lid of the churn, or via a crank used to turn a rotating device inside the churn.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “butter churn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.