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Many recipes call for melted butter, before adding to other ingredients. The microwave is a quick and easy way to melt butter…unless that butter makes a mess all inside of the appliance. What to do?The online cooking and recipe page, The Spruce Eats , is a handy-dandy page, for everything from 30 minutes or less meals, refined baking skills, and more. So we were a little surprised to see an article on melting butter. Really, now? Well, to be honest…The Spruce Eats must have seen us coming. We make some very elegant butter messes in the poor old microwave.
Here’s what The Spruce Eats suggests we do:
How to Melt Butter in the Microwave
The easiest way to melt butter without a mess is to lower the power setting on your microwave (microwaves that have a “melt butter” function automatically do this). By heating it for a limited time at low power, the butter will heat slower and you’re less likely to have an explosion.
- Place the amount of butter needed in a microwave-safe bowl, such as a clear glass custard cup.
- Put the bowl in the microwave, and microwave for 30 seconds at 40 percent power.
- If the butter has not melted, stir the butter or tip the bowl from side to side. Moving unmelted butter around in the hot melted portion may complete the melting process with no further heat required.
- When there’s still unmelted butter, return it to the microwave and heat in 10- to 30-second increments at 40 percent power until it’s completely melted. Repeat the stirring process each time.