How One of France's Oldest Butter Producers Makes 380 Tons Per Year- Vendors
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- Bordier Butter in Brittany, France produces up to 380 tons of butter per year that gets shipped all over the world, to individuals and restaurants alike. They produce different kinds of butter including seaweed butter, yuzu butter, smoked salt butter, and more.
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Credits:
Producer: Carla Francescutti
Field Producers/Directors: Anna Muckerman, Mohamed Ahmed
Camera: Anna Muckerman, Mohamed Ahmed
Editors: Anna Muckerman, Mohamed Ahmed
Executive Producer: Stephen Pelletteri
Development Producer: Ian Stroud
Supervising Producer: Stefania Orrù
Audience Development: Terri Ciccone, Frances Dumlao, Avery Dalal
0:00 - Overview
0:36 - Liquid cream process
1:43 - Buttermilk
2:40 - Cleaning
3:07 - Kneading
5:18 - Bordier History
5:59 - Quality Control
7:18 - Compound Butters
7:54 - Shaping & Packaging
10:09 - Cooking With Butter
11:50 - Legacy
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I have an insatiable need to manhandle 10 kg of pure butter with my bare hands
There’s a nugget of management excellence in this video. Not just the delicious butter, but the manager said “I’ll shape for an hour, I’ll wrap for an hour… everyone rotates roles to keep the passion high about what we do”. This is gold. Humans become dull and bored when doing the same task all day, every day. Rotating stations and breaking up the day keeps everyone passionate about the product they produce. Team before self. 👏👏
I cant express enough not only how good this butter is, but just that its a whole other experience. Since having it, ive tried many high end butters from all over and none compare, Bordier truly is a giant step above the rest. I only wish I was able to find a place that could procure it for me here in Minnesota :(
You can make it yourself easily.
ROFL! its just plain butter. buy a quart of heavy cream and whip it in a mixer until it separates into butter and buttermilk. then wash the butter with water. there is no reason to overpay for foo foo frenchie label butter. they charge $14 a stick plus overnight international shipping. hard pass.
I buy Bordier butter at my local cheese dairy and OMG that's something else, they have lot of flavors, spices and everything, but the basic salt butter is PERFECT
@@BobRooney290 + French arm hair
It’s just oxidized butter with a bit of salt. Very easy to do yourself at home.
As a Frenchman, I'm so proud of the work ethic behind our terroir products 😊
SVP Luttez pour le maintien de cette éthique ! Je vois trop d'entreprises françaises suivre la voie américaine. Je suis américain et je sais à quel point ce système peut être terrible pour les humains.
Please fight to keep those ethics! I see too many French companies taking the American route. I am American, and know how terrible this system can be to humans.
As a French-Canadian, I'm proud of you too.
Just wow when he said the workers are constantly switching roles everyday!. That's brilliant idea. By doing so, the quality of what they're doing doesn't change.
Also if someone has to be absent, maybe taking a vacation or having a sick day, the others can take up the slack easily as they already know what to do.
Yeah, and it ensures that many more people’s bare hands havr touched it …yuck
@@JN-wr9he Well if you buy a handcrafted product then...well...yeah by definition, hands will have touched it.
@@JN-wr9he yuck ? They wash their hands ! What is it with this society that wants everything hyper-sanitized ?
@@JN-wr9he no sh it sherlock, it's handcrafted
Sad to hear Mr. Bordier retired. He was full of life and loved what he did! Glad to see his passion is still carried on in his shop.
End of the day we do all just wanna retire. Cheers
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He didn't die, just retired lol
And full of lies. "Hand made.. first we use this machine, then this machine, then that machine, finally it goes to this other machine, then these 2 machines.. and voila! Hand made butter!"
I love the pride they have in there product
"their"
Their product, Alexander El.
Don't listen to these idiots with they're inferior mastery of grammar, Alex
Too bad they don't feel the same way about hygiene
it's fake
as a Singaporean, this is my favorite butter brand and i am so happy to be able to see what goes on inside the factory! Thanks for all your hard work. We are so lucky to be able to enjoy Bordier butter in Singapore.
Singaporean here. Could you tell me where can I get some of this butter other than fancy restaurants? Thanks.
@@humblehouse hi; there are some groupbuys that sells this. Tiong Bahru Bakery too, and a mart called The new Grocer, So France etc.
@@SJnicolle Thank you for your recommendations. Happy CNY in advance :)
@@humblehouse You are lucky to have this butter available i want it too...
fellow singaporean
I buy this butter every week at my "fromager" here in Angoulême. It is truely amazing. Almost two times the price of normal butter but totaly worth it. Extraordinary butter.
I don’t actually like it that much, tastes differ indeed
@@JN-wr9he you tried personnalisation ?
How much do you pay for it?
Est-ce qu’ils en ont ajouté qqch parce que je peux réparer des taches à la beurre @ 0:23 ?
That’s wonderful! I would love it:) I’m able to make butter with cream from whole milk from a friends dairy farm. It’s amazing but surely not as amazing as this:)
The quality and attention to detail is without equal! My dad said that he would rather eat 1 pound of butter than a tablespoon of margerine, he laughed at the marketing of plant based "butter" and used butter daily. He lived to 96 years old. I think he was on to something! I should also mention that he was married to a woman 20 years younger than him (my Mum) .
Isn’t margarine basically plastic?
@@kylesear6919 Exactly!! They still sell it and use it in school lunches, it is criminal,
@@kylesear6919 → Look up Nina Teicholz on youtube. She's terrific at describing the evils of margarine as well as all "vegetable" oils. Butter and most animal fats are benign, the rest are inflammatory.
@@wilhelmtaylor9863 Well done Wilheim, I will look her up. Thank you!
@@wilhelmtaylor9863 When my mother was a young girl in the 1930s, it was illegal for margarine to be sold in any color other than white. This was during the depression when her family had to use margarine to save money. The margarine block would come with a package of yellow dye and it was her job to laboriously mix the yellow dye into the raw, softened margarine to make it look more appetizing, like real butter.
Credits also to the staff and crew who made this video. The way they were able to relay the story, passion and emotion of the person really is admirable.
I’m so impressed at the pride taken with French cuisine. I dream of going one day.
You will be the most welcome.Just bring your smile and good vibes.👍
@@MrSebfrench76 lmao thats just a lie, there isnt a single country in western europe where people are less tourist/stranger friendly than in france
even the traditionally very reserved nordic countries are more open.
france is an awesome country in all aspects, you should definitely visit.
but be prepared to be met with unfriendliness and disdain in every single interaction that does not take place in french.
@@leonhardable it depends. If you arrive with an atttitude, and speak english in a loud and obnoxious way like some americans do, you will be met with disdain indeed. If you are polite and explain your counterpart you don't speak french, they will try to help you. Keep in mind also manners are important, like saying hello, and thank you.
@@jpnarino he never went to france. Let him talk.
This is mesmerizing to watch. Butter can be used for different purposes, whether it's for baking or cooking and so on. Seems like these factories know how to handle the whole process step by step.
Exactly.. is also good lubricant
Butter is something special in France. We use it quiet a loot for cooking or even just breakfast
. A real croissant for instance is mainly done with butter.
I personally have one of my favorite breakfast to eat a fresh baguette just with some good butter and a coffee. Simple but terrific
Amogus
With their bare hands 🤢
Clean hands.
“ butter 🧈 “ and “ France 🇫🇷 “ are synonyms ☺️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Didn't know butter had nuclear weapons 😂
I had a peanut France and jelly sandwich the other day. Very tasty.
@@TheAussiePencil amazing right😂?
And baguette
@@djagoegei18 And crème
It's really incredible how much these guys love their work, you can tell everyone involved is extremely proud to be part of producing this wonderful butter
Im from Singapore and recently saw this in a French cafe down my street that also had a confectionary attached to it. Amazing to see the work behind it !
Ooh do you mind sharing the name of the cafe?
I salute their traditions! Keep it alive. Vive La France
Love these series. As someone who works in food industry these series have really inspired me to become more of an artisan.
I can watch them shaping and packaging the butter all day, it so satisfying to watch.
I watch how this is done and I ask myself, "Who is the first person to discover this and what exactly were they doing to get to this point?"
storing milk in the only liquid proof way early humans had, a dead cows stomach.
trial and error i suppose
Starvation
First person to spank enough some milk
If you just put milk in a container and then leave it alone while you travel by horse or carriage on a bumpy road, you'll accidentally have butter after an hour or two. Once people figured out you could do that on purpose it was just a matter of refining the technique.
The work process of this is truly a masterpiece many companies of different fields could learn alot from this. Even if it's just changing the station the employees work at throughout the day it would help them be more efficient and not just want to leave work already
I totally agree with that too! That was probably the thing that stood out to me the most!
Can't wait to put an IT engineer on Customer Service
But why are they using their bard hands??? 😨🤢
@@JN-wr9he Butter doesn't carry germs or bacteria well due to it being salty and basically already a preserved food, no risk of them getting anyone sick. All professional restaurants don't use gloves unless they're doing something greasy / slimy and actually need to wear them to keep their hands free of grease or slime. Hands can be washed. If you're wearing gloves you don't wash them that often and a tiny hole can be made in the gloves that contaminates everything.
On top of that it's harder to feel through gloves when doing precision work. A well-washed hand with no gloves is much more trustworthy than a gloved one.
@@dirtydan2721 That's a pretty clean comment for a dirty username.
This is so relaxing to watch. I love every minute of it and usually watch videos like this when I’m in the mood😊
I buy this butter at the shop in Saint Malo when I go there every few months. The restaurant next door serves the butter on a plate - 8 ( I think ) squares of butter and a big basket of bread. That's all you need really. It's delicious, the shop is amazing, they will pack up the butter in a thermal bag for traveling with ice packs.
I just bought this butter in Korea in a high end grocery that had other french butters as well. I decided to try because I watched the retailer reduce the price but it was still very expensive (higher than the non-reduced premium french butters. It was the best butter I have ever had. Came to CZcams searching for the secret of this butter found this
Where in Korea? Do they sell it at any grocery stores?
@strawberryisthebest1965
I've never seen it in a grocery store... I found it at the the high end grocery at the Hyundai department store dairy section. They have a lot of rare and imported cheese and Italian meats as well.
@@leannd9072 Awesome!
It’s the labor practices that really hit home. And that someone who started on the floor still works there (or st least can still do the job) and does the media.
This is super interesting. I always admire watching someone passionately perform, and boast about their craft.
Beautiful process, devoted and passionate workers, and of course, an amazing product.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
They have a right to be proud!
A legacy that will last a long, long time.
It's amazing ! I can feel the taste from here . Love the food skills we have in France, so proud of it !
As a French, I can tell you there is no better butter than this one in France (WITH SALT obviously)
Not true.. It's good but nothing to write home about
@@iLoveBoysandBerries let people test by themself and judge, if it's "just good" for you that's already fine
@@mayori35 forget him. Must be l'anglais. Ever heard of British cuisine? It's fish & chips & some Indien curry chicken tikka masala. That's it.
@@ic5442 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would love to try this
Looks like the passionate owner M. Bordier I loved to watch has left it to capable hands.
I've never watched a video about butter before. I never wanted to sit down and eat butter like they presented in this docu. Since I make butter at home, there are tricks I've picked up watching this that I will employ from now on.
I wish I had some of your butter, love the way you work with your workers. Also beautiful products.
Perhaps my comment will not be noticed by anyone, given how many people around the world will see this beautiful piece of technological art, but... If anyone reads this, I would like to wholeheartedly thank these people who are doing their honest work, while showing their creation for review and emphasizing the external simplicity of such a difficult technological process! Living in Russia (yes, that very distant country, which is in a difficult political and economic situation), I want to say thatpeople don't even think about it heresuch 'simple' things as the manufacture of much-needed products and their quality: people in cities buy low-quality products in ordinary stores, and it's even hard to imagine how big is the problem in my country of manufacturing fake dairy products from very poor raw materials, with violations of sanitary and other technological conditions...
But I would not like to end on a sad note, but only with hope in a person as a creator of general well-being, honestly fulfilling his mission, whose work will be appreciated.
In America much of what is sold in the grocery store is garbage. It is very sad to see people buy horrible things such as Cool Whip (fake whipped cream), margarine, mushy bread, fake orange juice and so much more.
I can both see and understand how much this man loves his career/job.
Went straight to the shop to purchase this after watching this, just tried a little and it is OMG so nice! Love it so much! Thanks for sharing!
Suddenly 8 year old me who eats bread and butter at every meal is making me want to take a little trip from New York to France...
u can order this in US
Try this french Butter with handmade German bread which fresh from the oven and it is still warm…
@@maxk.9976 ah so close, french butter with french bread.
@@maxk.9976 Germans always think their bread is the best lol
@@moussesucree na come on.. we German don’t have much. Please let us have good breads xD the only thing we have xD
We have done so many bad things to the world in the past, so let us give you the world good bread at least 😭
that butter is so powerful it made a japanese chef fluent in french
If you train in a French kitchen, cooking French food, you are expected to learn some French wherever you come from.
No concessions are made. Very French like this butter
Great real video. Loved it. Thank you.
Such an amazing video to watch on a Saturday morning. This is a rare and admirable case of “better than homemade”!
Thank you for your skills. It’s such a pleasure to see younger generation keeping these trades running
I would definitely love to spend a couple hours watching the operation of this butter factory in person.
I like how they combine modern science with traditional methods. Very cool!
People who have passion in what they do will always have a smile and be happy. And what they build or make it will always be the best you will ever have.
Wow. Amazing dedication to create the perfect butter. Simple things becoming extraordinary because the whole team put their heart and effort on it. Now I'm off to finding where I can get this butter in NZ!!
I used to be apathetic about butter until I tried Bordier butter. It completely changed my opinion of butter and my appreciation for it has increased (unsalted is the way to go but Bordier's seaweed butter is still the best butter I've ever tasted).
its also healthy for you. contrary to what people say
You eat butter whole?
Man, betcha handling all that butter these guys never suffer from dry skin on their hands lol 😂
such a beautiful work... delightful and mesmerizing! i imagine the passion that all colaborators put on every butter! i would love to taste it one day
"Une cuisine sans beurre est une cuisine sans coeur" Paul Bocuse
I love our obsession with butter. It's such an underrated gem in cooking. Like imagine if we didn't have butter, what a sad flavour lacking world.
"Western cooking"
@@challenger516 ???
He got me ready to churn my own butter.. the process looks like art
Really amazing - such passion for quality!
I've never wanted butter so badly in my life.
Lol
What a beautiful harmony between automation and handcrafting. They have found a way to scale the business, without sacrificing the artistry and quality . Bravo. 👏
Wow, this is stunning! I'll travel to Brittany soon, I'll make sure to try this butter.
I started churning butter at home in a Kitchenaid. I'll never go back to industrial butter. Even doing it as an amateur, the difference is incredible.
This looks insanely good but when they're churning the butter and using their bare fingers to separate it and you could see it going in their nails...that threw me off.
When he spoke about oxidation I thought why would anyone want to degrade their product, but like all finer things I guess it's just a small percentage in the process to develop more complex flavour. It's still weirdly interesting how some prefer funky flavours over clean ones (Yes Blue cheese I'm thinking of you!)😅
Bless these food heroes. PS a fresh baguette and this butter is ALL you need in life, spectacular.
So proud to live in a country which kept this level of tradition of gastronomy. The beurre à l'ail des ours de Bordier est à tomber par terre
Will need to try and get a hold of some of that somewhere, looks magnificent.
does it? its just butter
@@courgettee No, no, no, no, no courgette, my wee YT friend, it's magnificent butter, butter of the gods and from the gods, look at the care and attention..........go on, try and get hold of some, pot some on a roll, or baguette with either nothing, or some sliced fresh tomatoes and salt and white pepper and then return with your findings :) x
Hopefully there’s a European style store in your town, we have one in Fairbanks, Alaska, aptly named Eurostyle.
I get a shipment of this butter once a year and freeze it for special occasions throughout the year. It costs an arm and a leg to get it here but there is no equal domestically. Animal Farm is the closest and it is even more expensive and even harder to get.
As a kid, we had a Holstein cow and made our own with a hand churn.
Bright yellow, didn't kneed it but turned out great.
Mom made homemade bread too. The smell was heavenly.
The fact that this guy has worked every job at the company, and he is the one that is giving the tour, and is doing every process discussed with a high level of skill. Just wow.
Duuuude. I must try this. True artists.
He sure makes it look like i want to work there, great job.
i really like the amount of hand hair that went to making of this butter
That butter looks so good!!!
Amazing! I love butter!
Butter
I need to try that butter.
Love that they rotate the employees through the stations!
so fancy butter is touched by none gloved hands none stop
I worried that he didn't wash his hands after eating the butter off of his thumb.
Gloves are a fallacy. They incite people to be lazy about hygiene. A study in the US showed that sandwiches prepared with gloves have twice the risk of being contaminated compared to those prepared with bare hands.
There is no dirtiness difference between gloves and hands the moment you put on the first or wash the second. And often, workers with gloves tend to not change it very often.
Yuzu butter, wow, that sounds amazing.
“It’s an everyday food, but we honor it”.
I am so impressed and full of admiration. These are trues craftspeople, who produce wonderful, life-enhancing and delicious butter. I am in Portugal, where cream and butter are of poor quality or non-existent. I would pay anything to have this butter available for cooking and baking, and I know it would enhance everything I do.
everything about butter is just so satisfying.
While I'm sure this is quality butter I don't want employees working gloveless with hairy ass arms kneading my butter.
Its technically cleaner then gloves but i get what your saying.
And this is why you are not french like I am..😁
As a baker, I know that the quality of every ingredient affects the final product. Butter may be the most important ingredient. I would love to try baking with this butter.
This is the most oddly appealing looking butter I've ever seen. Hell, I'd buy it!
4:15 this guy’s dropping buttery smooth rap bars.
I love how they wear a Hairnet but his Hairy arms are wide open
4:00 What if arm hair falls into the butter during the kneading process?
Excellent treatise on butter and how it's made bespoked this way. I will now seek it out.
love the way how they care about their food
I hope they keep producing for decades to come
Absolutely fascinating.
Nothing like a craftsman doing something by hand to make my day.
I spent $40 just to get a special order of Bordier butter from my local artisanal fine foods supplier because I really wanted to try it.
It tastes different for sure. The texture is melt-in-your-mouth and putting it on a good baguette is just simply heaven. You don't need anything else for your meal. But the flavoured ones definitely have a strong taste, especially the seaweed butter - it's plenty salty.
I'd say it was worth a try, but not so feasible for regular consumption unless it's easily available to you. And this was half a year ago, it wasn't all that memorable until I stumbled onto this video again and decided to recall what it tastes like.
For a good baguette you need to be in France or have a frenchy around with the knowledges
1:16 there must be some sort of translation error here. He's saying that the 4,400 litres of cream will become 2,200 tons of butter, but earlier on the video is saying that they produce between 350 to 380 tons a year.
1 ton = 1,000 kg. Unlikely that 4,400 litres makes 2,200 tons more like 2,200 kg or 2.2 tons. This then lines up with 380 tons a year
In some countries, the comma is used instead of the decimal point
@@brianfong5711 this is an English language CZcams channel based in the United States. Why would they use a comma to denote decimals in their subtitles? Also, if you're saying that they really mean 4.400 tons instead of 4,400 tons, why would they have written it to three decimal places instead of only one?
@@OptimusWombat they can sometimes intermix them. Perhaps the translator and the editor were from different countries and you have the unhappy typo accident. You could see it as 4.4K milk turn into 2.2 tons of butter.
he's saying 2.2 tons of butter are produced
it's 2.200 as in 2 tons and 200 kgs
It's a beautiful process to ensure that the butter is top quality. I am just surprised that plastic gloves were not worn by the artisans.
seaweed butter lime and scallops sounds amazing! 😍
fantastic, astonishing; very inspiring! I love it!
The right guy to lead the business after bordier retired.
I just got recommended this, and I remember Regional Eats and their video with Jean-Yves. I was disappointed to hear that he retired, but I'm glad he was able to bring a leader with the same love as his own.
I wonder if they get arm hair in their butter I’d still eat it don’t get me wrong the butter looks delicious but he was working that butter without sleaves. I make pizza at home and find my arm hair falling and sticking in the dough more times that I can remember. In case of pizza once under the cheese😂 it’ll be hard to detect and I’ll probably ate and not noticed but i would hate to see one on my toast
I thought the same thing! What about the arm hairs? 😂
That pepper butter sounds amazing. I want to try some.
As a chef i become goosebumps from seeing the passion and master level of craft♥️
French butter is absolutely very delicious :)
How can a video about butter be so magnificent?
The dude, it's just because we know a thing or 2 regarding the real life ..
And you are sensible enough to connect with our way of life 👍
Butter - always underestimated but so vital and crucial for everything cuisine.
I'm from New Zealand one of the biggest dairy exporters in the world. I had no idea. Thank you so much
I didn't realise M. Bordier had retired. What a great company, whilst some of the scientific claims are dubious, it doesn't actually matter, because the final result is a supposedly great product which I would love to try one day! If there is an artisanal butter, this is it!