GARDEN ROUTE l KAROO NEWS - Remember when everyone started making their own bread during the first Covid-19 lockdown? Well, now it’s butter — that long-time sidekick of loaves everywhere — that we’re all learning how to make at home.
The trend is being driven by the current economic climate. On social networks, butter-making video tutorials are scoring several million views!
Remember March 2020? In those early days of the Covid-19 epidemic and the first lockdown, recipes for home-made bread were the talk of the internet, sourdough leading the way as a food now synonymous with this unique period in recent history.
Now, as inflation soars and food prices rise, the recipe for another essential foodstuff is all the rage on social networks: butter.
Admittedly, it’s surprising, because this is an everyday staple that we usually just buy outright rather than making ourselves.
On TikTok, the butter-making process can score several million views with just one video.
The British chef Thomas Straker’s video has garnered more than 7.1 million views since it was posted in late April, for example.
