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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)
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Tuesday, May 09, 2023 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.
Question:
In the recipes I’ve seen so far in the course, softened butter is mentioned. Are we going for a certain temperature here?
— Lenore Litwin
Answer:
Typically when you talked about softened butter, that means room temperature butter. So I'm not sure which course you're in or which class you're in, um, but any of them, uh, it's vegan or if it's animal-based butter, you're basically looking at, uh, butter that's been kept at room temperature. Um, typically at least 24 hours, so you'll see that'll actually happen. Ah, so I just heard that you're in the intro to pastry. So that's again, um, if it's animal based, you're going to make sure that that's, uh, kept out for about 24 hours, um, to make sure that it's softened. Um, if you did something like microwave it, uh, it's going to melt all the way down into a liquid form and you want it to be able to make sure that it's soft but not melted all the way. Hope that helps.
