churn

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Construction of a push butter barrel

A butter churn (also known as Kirne , in the Eifel also Rump ) is a container (mostly made of wood, but in Switzerland in the Emmental often also made of ceramic) into which the skimmed cream is poured and then mashed or whipped into butter . It used to be the most widely used device for buttering.

species

The churns all consist of a vessel in which the cream is set in motion in various ways. One distinguishes

  • Push butter barrels with standing barrel and rising and falling pusher,
  • Whipped butter kegs with horizontal or vertical beater shaft and
  • Roll or cradle butter kegs, in which the whole barrel or box with the cream is set in motion.

The theologian and inventor Benjamin Georg Peßler described an early mechanically driven butter churn as early as 1796.

gallery

  • Butt butter barrel

  • Ceramic push butter keg

  • Whipped butter barrel

  • Rolled Butter Barrel

  • Cradle butter barrel

  • Benjamin Georg Peßler's mechanical butter churn, 1796

  • Driven by a dog on a running bike

  • Motorized butter churn

  • Modern steel butter churn

Trivia

Due to its external resemblance to a butter churn, a two-part defense tower is called a butter churn tower .

According to Hermann Hirt, the term girbe refers to a hose used in Asian cultures to produce butter.

The Austrian term buttern (for the sexual act), usually noted as powdering , comes from the jerky movement during butter production.

literature

  • Benno Martiny: Kirne and Girbe. A contribution to cultural history, especially the history of the dairy industry . Self-published, Berlin 1895.

Web links

Wiktionary: Butter churn  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Butter Churn  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Kirne" in Duden. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Heege : Ceramics from Langnau. On the history of the most important land farm in the canton of Bern . Bern 2017.
  3. ^ Benjamin Georg Peßler : Brief description and illustration of a newly invented very simple butter churn . Braunschweig 1796 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library ).
  4. ↑ Herman Hirt: The Indo-Europeans. Their distribution, their original home and their culture . Trübner, Strasbourg 1905, p. 302 ( google.de ).