Have you ever made homemade butter with a saw?
Okay this is a little bit out there, but you will definitely get a laugh when you see this couple trying to work together to create homemade butter. Of all things butter.
With the high price of products these days it's important to cut back in every area possible to make your dollar stretch. Electricity keeps going up, so does milk, and gas. Living in a consumer based society can have it's tole on our well being. Keeping up with the Jones isn't always easy. Obviously homemade butter isn't a big expense, but this is fun little project you can do in your garage with your kids or your spouse.
If you bought a commercial butter maker at the store it would cost upwards of one hundred and fifty dollars.
This is a very funny informative video, keep your eyes peeled for the bloopers!
You are going to need a few things in order to make the homemade butter:
1. 18 volt rechargeable cordless drill battery.
2. Solar panels to charge the batteries on a drip charge system throughout the day. (You can cheat and plug them in to the wall charger, but that is cheating)
3. A reciprocating saw with a twelve inch blade that you have filed down till it is dull.
4. A plastic jug (preferably an ice tea container).
5. Some heavy cream from the grocery store
6. Some duct tape.
Optional: Plate, Goggles, Paper Towels, and a Bib.
Don't forget you can add salt as well, but I recommend mixing the salt with the heavy creamer before you make the butter so that the grains won't get in the way.
I hope you got a good laugh out of that!
If we don't change the way we think, how can we make any kind of change in our world. Maybe making homemade butter is a simple thing that can have a big impact.
Have you ever had a carbon report done on your household? Basically they take the amount of stuff you consume, electricity, water, food, materials and they assign a value to it. For most households it would take approximately three to five acres of land growing things to support them. Now picture all the people in the world, with their one house. There are not enough acres in the world to supply the demand that we put on it. Someone is getting short changed.
So it's important that we change the way we think for our future generations. People are just now being forced to accept the fluorescent bulbs in their homes over the incandescent bulbs, but we also have the L.E.D. bulbs that take much less energy.
I'm going to be following this couple as they seem to have some interesting insights into common everyday things with some unorthodox ways of getting results.
Thanks For Reading
John Prochazka
