Buttermilk is not (necessarily) butter milk

[@EPMTUNES]

I love how you always tell the story of food through the lens of historic necessity.

[@manoloestradas3693]

Most history of food and culinary tradition can be traced back to historic necessity

[@osonhouston]

​@@manoloestradas3693And as Bob Ross would say happy accidents.

[@Heightren]

Or serendipity

[@WaffleAbuser]

Necessity is the mother of all inventions!

[@matthewkolakowski3701]

Exactly, and the amazing thing about history is that it clearly shows us that we should exterminate both ethnic Russians and Germans. We would have peace on earth.

[@torden9376]

so you telling me they don't milk butter cows?

[@laurasnow7822]

BUT HER COWS

[@BakersTuts]

I heard chocolate milk comes from brown cows

[@ahmedslama3412]

@@BakersTuts you have a good hearing

[@philllisphilllis5453]

@@BakersTuts that’s absolutely true

[@jordanoneill7052]

You telling me they don't sqeeze it out of the peanut?

[@TheRoboteer]

Anecdote about buttermilk which ties into the whole "energy drink" point you mentioned in this video and also crosses over my two loves in life - food and motorsport: After the 1933 Indianapolis 500 race, the winner Lous Meyer was exhausted from the effort of the 500 miles, so he requested a drink of buttermilk in order to refresh him. After winning it again in 1936 he made the same request, and was photographed swigging from a bottle of buttermilk while holding up 3 fingers to represent the fact that it was his third time winning the race. Ever since 1936 every winner of the Indy 500 has repeated Meyer's tradition, though the buttermilk was fairly quickly replaced with regular milk which somewhat matches up with what Adam said about buttermilk drinking being a somewhat older tradition. Such is the strength of the tradition for post-race milk, that there was even a near-riot one year when former Formula 1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi drank orange juice after the race instead of milk in order to promote his home country of Brazil's orange industry.

[@ministig63ace]

I knew about the orange juice saga as an F1 fan but it's quite fascinating to hear the origins of such a unique tradition. I always wondered how it came about. Also your comment reminds me of the golden age of the drivetribe and foodtribe community that once was: combining the love of cars and foods in general

[@sullivan108]

As an Indiana native I remember the uproar, lol

[@jimjimsauce]

love motorsport too! cheers

[@hensonlaura]

Wtf, you keep saying old timers?!? You don't know what a spring house is, or clabber, or other common stuff. I've never seen someone so ignorant, trying to school everyone else!

[@corbeaudejugement]

wait, THAT'S why the "got milk?" ads always have racecar drivers in em???

[@thomasking49]

“A ‘buttermilk sky’: a typically mellifluous and evocative southernism.” Maybe my favorite sentence from this channel

[@vsimp2956]

I'm too dumb to understand what it means but it sounds cool

[@purplegill10]

I second this.

[@kevinwichlin9889]

Only a journalist would pump out a sentence like that haha

[@thiccityd9773]

My favorite is “20 eggs, yes 20”

[@justinnewman13]

This was the part of the video I replayed multiple times just to hear it

[@unchartedsteppes7138]

In my South Indian language (Telugu), buttermilk is called "majiga," and we eat it with rice all the time. Majigannam (an agglutinative word meaning buttermilk with cooked rice) is probably the most common thing eaten in South India.

[@alkaliaurange]

Except (from what I know of my family), "majiga" is buttermilk is basically curd thinned with water. I'm not aware of any south indians making buttermilk as a direct product, but I could be unaware. It's interesting to hear Adam talk about how buttermilk and yogurt use different classes of bacteria, when I thought it was the same. Pretty cool.

[@unchartedsteppes7138]

@@alkaliaurange interesting. my family usually makes perugu with a culture but we buy majiga from the store.

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

Care for sharing a recipe with us? Would love to try and make it.

[@anope9053]

@@erzsebetkovacs2527 honestly, the way that my family makes it (im also telugu haha) is with store-bought dahi from indian stores, water, and salt; its apparently good for digestion and its used a lot when you're sick and can't eat anything without barfing if you want, you could also make homemade perugu by boiling a bunch of milk, adding some pre-existing dahi or perugu (same word different languages), and let that sit in your oven for a while (i think)

[@sriramb5703]

What we Indians call buttermilk is not the same as American buttermilk

[@AlexandreBFK]

In Austria, we have 2 kinds basically, butter milk and what we call sour milk. Buttermilk is made from the leftover of producing Butter, then fermented, so it’s more liquid, and sour milk is whole milk that is fermented (sounds more like what you describe), so a lot more creamy. Never used it for baking but it’s a lovely Drink

[@aragathor]

In Germany Sour Milk is called Dickmilch, literally Thick Milk. It's awesome with some fried potatoes.

[@angelawildman122]

No offense but I find that gross. Sour milk, yuck!

[@PhycoKrusk]

It adds a good tang when baking savory foods (especially American-style biscuits) and provides good body similar to heavy cream (in Europe, I think this is called double cream). I don't particularly like it in sweet foods, but that's more of a personal preference than anything.

[@colorona8456]

@@PhycoKrusk In Europe we call it whatever the local language is, so in most places it won't be neither heavy cream, nor double cream because in most countries we don't speak English as a first language. Also in most European countries buttermilk is consumed primarily as a drink.

[@Phil_OG]

@@PhycoKrusk Schlagobers

[@G4naD]

In Poland we also have buttermilk called "maślanka" - a word that also derives from word butter, it also originates from the highlander part of the country and is commonly found in every grocery store on the shelf right beside kefir

[@noahleach7690]

I adore how humans seperately and accidentally figured this out.

[@krankarvolund7771]

In France we call it Lait Ribot, which has nothing to do with butter in french (beurre), but is from the briton language where "ribotte" is the milk left after you've beaten your butter ^^ The funny thing is we use Lait Ribot, because it can't be officially called "babeurre", the french word for buttermilk, as it is whole milk fermented with bacterias, so just use a regional language isntead ^^

[@kamkamkil1]

ok but we also have kefir with is diffrent

[@IgnacyG1998]

Yeah but kefir is more sour and chunky and overall different which is weird considering it's basically also just fermented milk nowadays. I love both though.

[@bryanhumphreys940]

A local dairy to me (the USA) sells 'Bulgarian Buttermilk' alongside plain buttermilk. Apparently the Bulgarian kind is made with full fat milk instead of skim milk like would be the product of making butter. I wonder if it is similar to to maslanka.

[@4listaja]

Buttermilk is actually really popular among like 80+ year olds in Finland as well. I remember always drinking buttermilk at my grandparents when I was like a 5 year old. When I drank regular milk my grandpa used to actually diss me for not drinking buttermilk. :D He preached about it's health benefits to me till the day he passed away last year.

[@ahriik]

That's really interesting! I'm actually visiting Finland right now (my mother was born and raised here before moving to the US in her twenties, so I still have lots of family in Oulu), and I just asked if my grandma drinks buttermilk (piimä) and the answer was yes haha.

[@jonathancormack]

May your grandfather rest in peace

[@juliabogajo]

Me, a Brazilian trying to use mockup buttermilk or sour milk to make American recipes while my kefir is staring at me lol Thanks, Adam!

[@macareuxmoine]

Love your comment 😊 I stopped buying yogurt, buttermilk etc since having a kefir culture and I am quite fond of the little resident in my kitchen ☺️

[@abbynall7740]

We stopped by Cruze Farms on our last trip through Knoxville per your last video about soft-serve: it was phenomenal. I love these local highlight food science videos, and it looks like slowing your pace has really worked out for your channel. Keep it up!

[@graefx]

When I started making my own kefir I was surprised it tasted nothing like the yogurt-y stuff you can buy, it was a lot closer to "buttermilk", I really liked it and found out my grandmother drank buttermilk a lot.

[@kevinwichlin9889]

Love these Cruze farm folks and all your videos with them! Would love to see more of this. I know you don’t want to endanger your viewers by educating us on the subject but some Tennessee moonshiners would be cool.

[@Tyler-Armstrong]

this last run of content with cruze farms has been really awesome, love the work you do adam

[@nosillec]

I live in Mongolia. Our national beverage is Airag, which is basically the same thing but with horse milk instead of cow. People sell it in 2 liter bottles out of the back of their cars. Sometimes it’s great, sometimes it’s not. I never understood why. Older people drink it regularly too while the younger generation doesn’t. Thank you for helping me understand it better, I’m going to try making my own now!

[@АлишерМакашев-ж1ш]

In Kazakhstan we call it Qymyz and that stuff absolutely slaps. Also, the Bashkort/Bashkir people (a Turkic ethnicity in Russia) have a version of fermented mare milk that has honey added in the starter culture, and it tastes absolutely heavenly. The slight sweetness from the honey compliments the tangy flavour of the fermented mare milk really well.

[@MilanaSolyanka]

​@@АлишерМакашев-ж1шwait, kefir with honey? How to google it, what is it called?

[@macareuxmoine]

The quality differs because the cultures react to weather, air pressure, milk composition etc. that really influences the outcome of my kefir culture’s production too…

[@yuzan3607]

In the middle east we also LOVE drinking butter milk we call it "Laban". We drink it almost everyday with dinner or lunch or as a snack with dates. When I first lived abroad and realized that "Laban" doesn't exist in other countries, I was so frustrated because I was so used to drinking it and I miss it a lot. From the name, I never ever expected "butter milk" to be the same as "Laban" and you can imagine how happy I was when I discovered it.

[@erazn9077]

Yess! The only bad thing about traveling to a western country was not finding laban in the normal supermarkets, I tried kefir thinking oh this might be like laban cause it says it’s cultured but oh no it really wasn’t. It seemed like carbonated milk which was a little unsettling Thankfully we know now that buttermilk is the same thing so hopefully it’s a bit closer to what laban back home is like

[@indiankimchi]

Honestly, you can make it relatively easily with greek yogurt and water…

[@yuzan3607]

@@indiankimchi the taste is very different in my opinion. I usually hate laban that is just watered down yoghurt, a lot of Indian restaurants do that. It loses a lot of the sourness and taste. In the video they explain that the bacteria that makes yoghurt is different from the bacteria that makes butter milk, which explains the difference in taste.

[@aluminiumknight4038]

​@@indiankimchithat's ayran, it's diffrent

[@weaa00]

We have it in Bangladesh

[@katelynblevins3192]

Firstly, thank you for pronouncing Appalachia correctly!! My momma and granny always ate buttermilk with sweet corn bread crumbled in it & topped it with raw

[@lordburgendy6108]

As an East Tennesseean, I'm glad Adam shows a little bit of my home's history. 😊 Thanks, Adam!

[@Beryllahawk]

Lovely! My Papa (2nd grandfather on my dad's side, I had a plethora of grandparents) adored buttermilk and always kept a jug in the fridge. I remember him telling me that when he served in the Korean War it was really hard to get dairy products, but he'd go to a lot of effort to get his hands on buttermilk, because it'd keep longer and made him feel a lot better. (One of the only stories he ever told me about his military service, in fact.) Fascinating how the "same" effect manifests in so many ways - yogurt and buttermilk aren't the same but they could be called cousins, almost, it seems! And hearing kefir explained as buttermilk makes a LOT more sense than some of the health-store jargon I keep seeing. Also fascinating that European butter is made with cultured milk!

[@prateekraisinghani4578]

We also have spiced Lassi here in India - just add some salt, cumin powder and black pepper to the buttermilk that you are drinking and the sour taste melts perfectly with the aromatic spice and heat!

[@ChristianFS1]

There's a Danish dessert/snack called "Koldskål,", which is traditionally made with buttermilk. Along with the ingredients it is usually flavored with lemon and vanilla and eaten with either berries, fruits or little biscuits or cookies on top. Comes highly recommended.

[@siggovic1681]

Im swedish and everytime I visit Denmark I always buy koldskål because its sooooo delicious!

[@AlexKojfman]

Thanks for bringing this back and explaining the yogurt, sour cream, and kefir connection. I use this Canadian sour cream that my parent-in-laws get at a Russian market and it's some of the best sour cream I've had, and it's not as thick as the grocery store, more akin to a kefir... Just delicious.

[@mimikal7548]

Buttermilk is also very popular in Poland, where it's called "maślanka". It's often flavoured with strawberry chunks, and lately one company has been making baked apple flavour which is really delicious as well. There is also kefir which is extremely similar but the taste is distinctly different, as you said it's the same thing but with a different culture.

[@chedatomasz]

In Poland, we have kefir, maślanka (buttermilk) and zsiadłe mleko / kwaśne mleko (sour milk). These are three distinct products. Maślanka is the liquid byproduct of butter production, and may or may not be soured. It is significantly thinner than zsiadłe mleko, which is made from whole milk soured with lactic acid bacteria. And kefir is made from whole milk, but fermented with keffir grains which contain yeast and other microorganisms in addition to lactic acid bacteria, yielding a distinct taste and very chunky texture. Nowadays, buttermilk is sometimes made from thinned oud skim milk, but it's still a different product than sour milk. Saying these are all one thing is heresy!

[@SuperPeppi]

Same here, in Hungary. This dude is full of shit, it's not the first time I saw him spreading misinformation. How hard it is to google what's actually in kefir?!😡

[@papalpatte]

I work at a rehab clinic in northern germany and all the old patients LOVE buttermilk (btw its also called buttermilch in german)

[@syncrossus]

Thanks for the info! As a European, I never really knew what buttermilk was and always just used any milk product (milk, cream, sour cream, yogurt...) I had in the fridge as a substitute when recipes called for it and adjusted the amount so the viscosity of the batter looked about right. Good to know what it is and how to best substitute it!

[@retropulpmonkey]

Love everything about this, Adam. Thanks for packaging this information, and telling this story, exactly the way you did.

[@sonicXassasinXa]

Also Adam here in Arabia we make something called Laban which is similar to buttermilk. You should try it! You can make it at home as well :)

[@michaelandrews2619]

I've watched your videos for years, this was wonderfully esoteric .

[@Taintedglore]

I grew up in Georgia, and my family would use buttermilk as part of our struggle food during bad times. It would make our bread, and we would take the left over and pour it in a glass with cracks and eat it like a cracker soup. When I moved to PA it took me ages to find a pint of the stuff anywhere, I almost gave up getting it for my bread and biscuit making.

[@alsaunders7805]

My wife is from Georgia and likes buttermilk over cornbread. 🤔🤓🍻

[@Slurkz]

For people who don’t support animal abuse, or want a more sustainable product : You can make plant-based butter milk by mixing soy, pea or other vegan milk with some lemon juice or vinegar and let it transform into butter milk in a few minutes. You can also use cultures, but that takes longer. Search for it on KZbin. Anyway: good stuff.

[@deeanthony7713]

I have been making Angel Biscuits, since I was a teen. They are the BEST biscuits in the world! My mom taught me how to make HER home made Buttermilk Corn bread! Hey there, Adam...A BIG THANK YOU for teaching us about Buttermilk!!!!! Every time I thought about how Buttermilk is made, I was, always, making something with buttermilk, so I never looked into it! I LOVE all your videos and I will keep on watching them, like I have done for yrs! Again, thank you!!!!!

[@bidaubadeadieu]

Best video of yours in months! Very well done, and I loved to hear Earl Cruze's accent!

[@handlemchandleson1]

Lovely video Adam, something our family used to do to substitute buttermilk when it called for it in recipes was to mix a teaspoon to a tablespoon worth of lemon juice into regular milk , I’m looking forward to tasting the differences in recipes now that I know the differences!

[@erikharrison]

Adam, just want to say, I appreciate the care with which you tell the story of my home region

[@brick6347]

Always have plenty in the fridge. Essential for pancakes, but also fruit smoothies!

[@abbynall7740]

Never thought about using it for smoothies, and I drink a smoothie almost every day. 🤔 I'm trying that!

[@CarletonTorpin]

10:06 - Quality lens flare. Truly beautiful.

[@draconious4005]

There’s also Bulgarian buttermilk, which actually uses yogurt cultures for the fermentation! Kinda surprised me when my mom requested it when I was grocery shopping for her. I thought she was asking for buttermilk that was literally from Bulgaria.

[@chemlearner2721]

The infamous Bulgarian Miak.

[@joshuachesney7552]

I've been saying Kefir as "Keefer" my entire life and only just now learned I was wrong.

[@HarithBK]

so it is a lot like Swedish filmjölk it sits right next to the kefir and we use it the same as a breakfast item. pour it into a bowl get some oat crisps or other non-sweetend cereal and dig in. one of my favorit summer lunches is hot dogs with a tall glass of filmjölk. utterly refreshing and a fairly light meal to beat the heat.

[@joeysimunds6352]

My grandfather used to sprinkle pepper on top of his heavily aged Buttermilk now I want to step onto his era by trying it. Thankyou Mr.Ragusea!!

[@gaetan4164]

Buttermilk is still rather popular in Denmark. I often drink it in the morning, I love it.

[@dirozx]

Same in Netherlands

[@uniworkhorse]

Love that the interview on-location vids are coming back - more field trips please!

[@HeisenbergFam]

Adam could gaslight people into believing we were never real to begin with

[@horacegentleman3296]

You're not, you are a non player character in my simulation.

[@hamburger9677]

EXACTLY

[@dandumb]

YOU!! i knew i could find you here

[@Malkovith2]

I love your short form educational videos. They are well researched, packed with information and very easy to listen to. The only reason I have not subscribed is because you often upload the long form videos, that I'm not interested in. I still do come back to check out new videos as long as YT will recommend me your channel again. I don't know if other people will agree with me, but I'm just throwing this in.

[@theheyheygirl7791]

I've read a few of everyone's comments and kinda want to add something too. Here in Russia (at least my hometown which is famous for its dairy industry) kefir is a very popular product that comes in many flavors, like wild berries, peach and other fruits, kind of like what Adam mentioned in the video. There's also this kind that is enriched with specific "very-good-for-your-gut" bacteria called bio-kefir but it's typically not flavored. There's also just sweetened kefir, the name of that drink is literally "snow" if you translate it into English hahahaha There's also your basic butter milk, called pakhta. I've never tried it on its own but it's used in cooking also.

[@wesleytownsend8214]

I wish I could give this content thousands of thumbs up. When I was little my mom drank buttermilk and I tried so hard to like it but it was to strong tasting for me but now seventy years later I could drink it all the time and it’s my favorite beverage. I try to always buy it when it is the closest to the expiration date and sometimes I get lucky and the little grocery store I use will mark it down if the “sell by” date is that day. I love that this video was made. I wish you all the very best!!!

[@Dolphinhi2]

Lactic acid is common in skincare as an exfoliant, so using buttermilk for skincare makes sense!

[@berlineczka]

In concentrations below 5% is is also predominantly a humectant rather than an exfoliant, so it's great for moisturizing your skin.

[@benjaminaltube8731]

Actually happy to see small producers get more coverage online and get sells because of it

[@mistertestsubject]

I find that I have a similar feeling of general better wellbeing when I drink a Yakult every day, which is also a fermented milk product. I started doing it on a whim because they were always in my lunchbox as a kid and had no real expectation of any health benefits, I just felt a bit nostalgic for the taste. But after about a week I noticed my energy levels were overall better and I hadn't changed anything else in my life other than drinking the Yakult.

[@thegoodwitchluzura]

Are you Asian? Just curious, because I’m Asian and had Yakult in my lunchbox a lot.

[@mistertestsubject]

@@thegoodwitchluzura no, Australian. It's sold in most grocery shops here though.

[@jeannetitor]

yakult is no fermented milk product... its done a great job making you believe it is, but it's not.

[@ataready8810]

Same thing for me but with trying nutritional yeast. It doesn't have any bacteria of its own, but it seemed to help a lot with fatigue. At first the taste was awful but these days it even tastes kinda nice.

[@rosezingleman5007]

Yakult uses a very specific lactobacillus, different than those typically used in commercial buttermilk or kefir in the US. Oh it’s so yummy, and supposedly has specific health benefits. (I just drank my last one yesterday otherwise I’d dash to the kitchen and look on the label of one 😊.)

[@metagaminguniversemgu2240]

I really enjoy your take on cooking with these education perspectives on our food.

[@Prodigious82]

I used to love drinking buttermilk at my grandmas when I was a kid. We moved to another state and then didn't have any for several years. Tried it again and it was way more sour than I remember. Taste buds do change over time so that's probably it.

[@jimjimsauce]

man kefir is one of the best hangover cures i’ve ever had. back in college i would buy it at the grocery store, they had blueberry and strawberry flavors and were both delicious! after a big night of drinking i would drink half-full bottle of the stuff (i’m a really tall guy so maybe have a smaller serving if you need :) ) and it would take care of that sick/dead feeling and really perk me up into the day! i need to get some more now

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

Here in the Netherlands we call it karnemelk, and we still have it right next to normal milk to be used as a drink or in cereal. Or baking, though I don't know any recipes with buttermilk.

[@ThePhantomRenegade]

Karnemelk is often really sour though, lactid acid bacteria are added and the common strains are too sour for my taste. Making it yourself (bonus, you get really good butter) is much tastier in my experience (and tastier for baking, too)

[@Synistercrayon]

Breads and biscuits here

[@deeanthony7713]

Buttermilk Pancakes, Biscuits....Angel Biscuits are my favorite!

[@konskift]

In Denmark we call it Kærnemælk (literally churning-milk). and mostly have it on cereal for breakfast. before just like you we get on our bikes and ride to work.

[@ForestCounter]

I can only find one brand of buttermilk, that is actually a byproduct of churning here (also Denmark). The rest are just fermented low-fat milk. There is a real difference in taste.

[@haiderwaqar7668]

So glad to have found your channel. Now i can easily distinguish between butter milk and Lassi( super thin butter milk)

[@jotaros_dolphins2213]

Here in Poland every grandma will also tell you to drink your maślanka (buttermilk), i like how every culture that develops this stuff immediately recognizes how good it is for your body. There's also a a special kind of buttermilk that is drank in the mountains down south called "Żętyca", which is buttermilk left over from the production of the signature oscypek sheep's cheese. Also drank "sweet" or sour, and legally considered a traditional polish product.

[@annabeckman4386]

Adam i have been so pleased with this video and the previous video about the jersey cows. This is up my ally for info i have been looking for about Milking and getting my own cow for a homestead. Great info and thank you very much!! 👏👏👏

[@punkdigerati]

I'd love to see some lab reports on the microbiota in various cultured milk products. Most like you said are added from lab grown so should be easy, but many people make milk kefir with kefir grains which are far more than a single strain.

[@rosezingleman5007]

I’ve been making dairy kefir at home for years and when my own grains get too big/numerous, I sell them off on eBay and start over from scratch by buying *other* people’s grains from all over the globe (off eBay!). It’s a fun way to combine the native yeasty bacteria from other countries and yes, the flavors DO vary a bit, yield different thicknesses of kefir and so on. It’s a real fun foodie thing to explore and of course you can use a single lumpy “grain” as an inoculation for all manner of foods: veggies, mayo, fresh juices.

[@GraingerProductions]

Excellent videos with the Cruze family. Thanks Adam.

[@caninedrill_instructor5861]

Hello @Adam Ragusea I've used diluted yoghurt as a buttermilk substitute. I've also used various milks that I've added lemon juice, or vinegar to. I'll try making some vegan yoghurt out of chickpeas, water it down and try it in some Irish Soda bread. Another experiment for my Domestic Culinary Laboratory, AKA the kitchen.

[@deeanthony7713]

If I do not have buttermilk, on hand, then I replace it with sour cream.

[@marcberm]

The Word of the Day is: Mellifluous

[@dasu3]

I´ve been wondering a lot about English recipes using buttermilk and what I should use given what is available in Sweden. Now I know it's the most common breakfast in Sweden, "Filmjölk". Thanks for this, I wonder no more! ps. we used to have 2 kinds, one normal as described in this video, and one called långfil (long butter milk, direct translation) which was much much more viscous, kinda rubbery glue-like. Any other country have the same thing?

[@Shaun.Stephens]

To be clear if they ARE English recipes then they will be using the liquid left over after making butter. American recipes however will be talking about this cultured whole milk.

[@Covenant-R]

I would think that is why most of our scones recipes (biscuits to a bunch of IIRC mostly south US) use filmjölk as their main liquid ingredient. Although in reality I think gräddfil or basic craime fraiche + regular milk could serve as a good substitution.

[@zanegrattan6637]

​@Covenant-R it needs to be acidic for it to work in biscuits as it reacts with the sodium bicarbonate for levining.

[@d51d_46]

My grandmother used to always drink buttermilk. It was always in the fridge. We just got back from a trip to Georgia, where on one night we ordered milk for my one kid and it tasted just like buttermilk. It was so hot the milk had soured.

[@michaelmarkey3345]

I love buttermilk as a beverage. I'm 77 years old, originally from New England, now in Georgia. I was introduced to buttermilk as a kid. A local dairy made it and it was full of particles of real butter. It was so good. I've only been able to find cultured buttermilk lately but still I drink about a pint daily. Love it.

[@minimugs100]

More, More of this more!!! Such a fantastic video!

[@kamkamkil1]

now i'm confused, according to wikipedia butter milk and kefir are two diffrent things, mayby it one of those words that have two diffrent meanings ? in poland keffir is a lot more like a Soured milk with big curds

[@zanegrattan6637]

In the usa the kefir does not have curds.

[@gutollewelyn7562]

Earl's accent is a treat!

[@HayTatsuko]

I think of most modern manufactured buttermilk as being oversalted kefir. I've given my SCOBY many a meal over the years, and I love what it produces because it's like buttermilk, except not full of salt the way store-bought cultured buttermilks often are. Love how folks here in the South came up with the same sort of business that makes sourdough bread awesome. Fact is, you can make kefir from kefir, the same way these folks did with buttermilk. Don't need a SCOBY; the SCOBY just makes it go a lot faster. BTW, there is one big difference between buttermilk and kefir -- kefir grains (SCOBYs) always have yeast along with the lactic-acid and other beneficial bacteria It's right in the name -- Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast. And better better? Your SCOBY will grow with continued feeding, and you will eventually be able to break it in half to produce more kefir, to share the goodness with friends, or to blend into a seriously-probiotic smoothie. Do not recommend eating it straight up though -- the texture is of slimy rubber. No bueno. And to be honest, I do occasionally get a jones for the salty grocery-store buttermilk. Will slug down the whole quart at once and have no regrets. But my daily drinker is kefir, usually with a little vanilla extract to sweeten the sourness. Might have to look into making a weird mint lassi with it sometime!

[@MarcTompkins]

Q: What do you feed your kefir/kombucha culture? A: Scoby snacks.

[@williampugh5032]

Adam, you do the best transitions to the ads. I'm always impressed by the smooth transition. Truly LOL. Anyway, buttermilk...

[@martynabieniok9669]

Kefir isn't the same as buttermilk though. Buttermilk is fermented using bacteria, kefir can has added bacteria, but it's mainly fermented using kefir yeasts. It has different flavour, usually it's more thick than buttermilk and can be quite fizzy. And slightly alcoholic, up to 1,5% of alcohol even.

[@milesedgeworth132]

Almost all fermented dairy produce has yeast. Its almost impossible to avoid it.

[@ForestCounter]

Thats true.. And it certainly doesn't taste the same.

[@crazydragy4233]

​@@ForestCounter Nor is it used the same, at the very least not in europe. Those are two different things

[@brwi1]

Grains yo

[@BrainletReviews]

from what i can tell, kefir has WAY more beneficial bacteria than buttermilk.... at least when comparing the store-bought varieties. Then again, you probably want to avoid kefir with extra sugar in it.

[@ericy1]

Adams journalism background and curious nature and professionalism makes for such banger videos

[@yashcfc4]

All I want to do is visit Cruze farms now. Speaking of which, Adam, I have absolutely loved this series. Hope you can collaborate with Manjit & family more in the future :)

[@shethjrebbell]

This was a great vid. Felt like he was enthused and himself again here.

[@asschleiss]

Someone on the Indianapolis 500 entry list requested buttermilk if they won. I never understood it and thought it was gross, but this makes it make sense lol

[@ataready8810]

most fermented foods are their own taste thing. Some people like them, some people don't. What you eat can also change the bacteria in your gut changing what you crave.

[@MoneyChanger02]

Earl Cruze is the best ad for dairy I’ve ever seen

[@itbeat7899]

I love how you tell the story of good people through the lens of food and culture

[@grasshopperguy-y9d]

My sibling and I always love how well you segue into your sponsors XD you're funny and informative as always!

[@mmasque2052]

If a recipe calls for buttermilk and you don’t have any, you can use ‘soured milk.’ A couple teaspoons of cider vinegar or lemon juice per cup of milk gets you soured milk. The added sugars in lemon juice will also make your baked goods brown a bit more.

[@draconious4005]

Vinegar leg is on the right

[@rosezingleman5007]

Just doesn’t really taste the same though IMHO.

[@redlabel7833]

Absolutely obsessed with this video. Love your interviews mixed with science mixed with culture mixed with history !

[@ArchmageIlmryn]

Today I learned that what we call "filmjölk" in Sweden is actually the same thing as buttermilk. Over here it's typically eaten with cereal, and versions flavored with fruit are very common.

[@PovertyPear]

I would disagree about filmjolk being sold with fruit flavours, it is yoghurt that is sold flavoured and sweet. A-fil is more like the buttermilk I have had. Swe-yoghurt (and even filmjolk that is sold in stores) is way sweeter and not something I would consider to be the same like the buttermilk I tasted in india or anywhere else. I would recommend A-fil if you want to taste something slightly similar. Or make your own

[@Zakhath]

@@PovertyPear A lot of the flavored ones are sweetened with sugar. I removes some of the sourness sadly.

[@PovertyPear]

@@Zakhath yeah, and the fruit makes it even sweeter. I can’t stand it and recommend homemade Kefir if possible. - further rant not related to anything -- I think it’s better to make your own buttermilk/A-fil/sour filmjolk instead of trusting Arla to produce a healthy product. They even sell “kefir” but it doesn’t have the culture that real kefir has and isn’t the same at all. Buy kefir grains and make your own, I find it worth the time and if I forget it, i can just make an amazing fresh cheese when i filtered the grains and whey out. And the whey-water is great to use as a base for a protein shake if you want to. Anyway, have a wonderful weekend and enjoy your breakfast, whatever it is

[@evandotpro]

Hahaha your ad transitions are too damn good, Adam.

[@coin777]

8:25 NO! If buttermilk is the same as kefir then its the same as yoghurt. But You dont say that dont you.

[@jebbo-c1l]

In Denmark a popular summer dessert is 'koldskål' I recommend you make it Adam. Its made with buttermilk, egg, sugar, cream, and vanilla. Then we add these crispy cookie things on top. Very refreshing on a hot day

[@KiltedShepherd]

Interesting, is the literal translation of that ”cold bowl"? Lol

[@wiseSYW]

is buttermilk a type of kefir? no. it's like saying coca -cola is a type of pepsi

[@ignacioblancot775]

This is the most stupid comment I've ever seen

[@PaintSkate8]

They're both Colas.

[@ZGGuesswho]

good kefir has almost an effervescent and bubbly quality that is basically impossible to get in stores. i made it for a few years and this is inspiring me to do it again.

[@Tarrot]

I live in a country that doesn't sell Buttermilk in stores (Taiwan). When I need it for baking I just add some vinegar to milk and let it come together for about ~15 minutes and it gets me what I need for baking.

[@NancyTiddles]

Vinegar leg is on the right

[@Tokorai]

I'm originally from Oklahoma now(I moved to the PNW because I didn't feel safe there). I absolutely love drinking buttermilk straight up, and have ever since I was a child. I loved going to my grandparents place cause they always had some. It's such a treat.

[@susanjohnson5824]

As a kid growing up in Minnesota, USA in the 1960's I had stomach problems and my medical doctor recommended drinking 1 cup of buttermilk every day - I didn't like it at first (too sour) but I got used to it and actually like it. I don't remember if it helped the stomach problems but it sure didn't hurt.

[@StrikerX-]

Such a fascinating family. Awesome seeing a third video featuring them!

[@sebastianguerra6358]

My country actually prohibites the selling of buttermilk (suero de leche). It allows for its use in powdered form in yogurt or other products, but in its liquid form it can't be used or sold. This is because people were apparently mixing milk and buttermilk, to save costs, or selling buttermilk in the place of milk.

[@godofannoyance]

Interesting! Here in USA (like everywhere i would guess?) so much of our food culture was influenced by similar things. The great depression caused a lot of people to avoid certain things like rabbit, which used to be super popular but butchers would substitute other animals. Funny how everyone ends up with different traditions and laws from the same driving forces in a way.

[@VividFlash]

Interesting. In Austria butter milk costs about double of regular milk

[@Aremisalive]

Kefir is one of my favorite drinks.

[@smruthipradeep1941]

In India, buttermilk is curd (yogurt) that has been diluted with water and flavoured with everything from cumin powder to mustard seeds and curry leaves. It's called Chaas up North and More in Tamil Nadu ( A South Indian state) We drink it as a beverage during the summer to beat the heat. Tastes like heaven in a glass

[@sonkeschluter3654]

Sounds a bit like Ayran. its originates in Turkey and consists of yogurt with water and a bit of salt, very nice on hot days

[@TheIncredibleAspie]

Can we get a scalloped potato recipe up in here? Also known as one of the best ways to make potatoes.

Even European buttermilk differs greatly between brands (probably depending on the cultures used). Kefir is noticably different and fungi/yeasts involved (the SCOBY), which tastes very different. We also have Swedish milk, which seems similar to our buttermilk but is not low fat. Mixing up sour cream or something else to achieve the same liquidity seems very very different yet again. How all of these are the same name in the US is confusing to me. But this might explain why some baking recipes come out different when they just specify "buttermilk" and not which type! Finally, there's by now some great vegan substitutes based on fermented coconut, which can be helpful to some people.

[@maciejglinski6564]

Adam drinking/eating stuff and looking absolutely unimpressed is like a tradition right now. I would be suprised if i saw emoton on his face

[@AlneCraft]

Kefir is incredibly popular across eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Caucasus. When done with Horse milk you get Kumys, a slightly alcoholic beverage, national drink of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia. And when done with Camel milk, you get Shubat, national drink of different Central Asian states. Really good stuff!

[@s1gne]

Couldn't it have been the Dutch who started making buttermilk in the U.S.? Buttermilk (karnemelk, churned milk) is still pretty popular here and the Dutch where some of the first immigrants to arrive in the U.S. (Does make me wonder about butterflies (Vlinder in Dutch), why do you call 'm that? They don't have to do anything with butter and they are not flies)

[@marspower1288]

I have to disagree about the buttermilk = kefir point: you said in the video that both buttermilk and yogurt are the same category of fermented milk products - they are both made with cultures of lactic-acid bacteria, kefir usually refers to milk fermented with a SCOBY, symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (which also contains some acetic acid), similar to the culture present in kombucha (which you could claim is the same thing as "water kefir"). the SCOBY produces different flavors and a slightly different texture, and the yeast fermentation gives it a slight carbonation and a tiny alcohol content. so IMO buttermilk is a lot more similar to yogurt, sour cream, creme fraische ect, than to kefir, even though kefir is closer in terms of viscosity.

[@david.mcmahan]

Between growing up in Western NC, and having a personality that is soothed by listening to conversations, I totally loved hearing from Earl in this video! I'm not a huge buttermilk fan (other than in biscuits), but I appreciate the people who love it and the history. (A deeper cut would be exploring the practice of pouring milk...usually buttermilk...over leftover cornbread.)

[@matthewjamestaylor]

Great video, Adam! I love buttermilk to drink, but there is nothing better than buttermilk ice cream. My vanilla version tastes slightly like pineapple. It's awesome. Cheers.

[@LouisHansell]

Adam, thanks for that. I have been drinking kefir for many years. Lately the Lifeway kefir selection is available at several stores. I am going to try buttermilk now thanks to your video.