Paderno/World Cuisine Paderno World Cuisine Fresh Butter Maker

I purchased this item seeing that about half the buyers left positive feedbacks while half said it was not worth the money. I am more than pleased. Last night I made 5 batches of butter and it worked like a charm. Easy to use, easy to clean, and quite heavy duty. The listing states you can add between 16 and 27 ounces of cream, and while I tried both variances, it seemed to work best with the fullest amount (I raise goats, and run my milk through my cream separator so I can make butter, yes goat butter for those of you who haven't heard of it). Not sure if the people who left bad reviews received a different model or if they just weren't sure how to make butter, but my purchase left me 100% satisfied!

Made whipped cream in 7 minutes, butter in 9. The only flaw so far is the squeeky sound it makes. It's either the plastic gear or the nut that holds the handle. if it's the nut it should be an easy fix with a small rubber o-ring or washer, hopefully. But honestly, it works flawless and it was very easy to clean.

I've made butter before in the (big name mixer) with a balloon whisk - which made a mess of the walls. That was good butter, btw.In my goal to get off the grid, I've started to find hand tools to do the things I rely upon the power company to provide the power for me to do it.Churning my own butter, by hand, from a pint of full cream was quite satisfying and only took about half an hour. No preservatives, look up "butter bell".

Have a holstein milk cow; purchased this unit to help process the cream. Has a working capacity of a little more than a quart, and it does produce a nice round ball of butter.Unfortunately one of the two nuts that hold the gear to the lid of the unit fell off and the butter paddle propelled it into the glass container and broke it. Manufacturing defect; we'd only processed 1/2 gallon of cream at that point, total.I'm going to return this unit and buy an electric butter churn instead.

We wanted a simple, easy to use and clean, butter churn - that makes butter and would hold up. This was not it.We have been making butter using the mason jar method. This is simple enough but a lot of work for much butter. Just skim the cream, but it in the jar, optionally add salt, and pass it around the table for everyone to shake. Then wash the jar.This butter churn has a few major flaws:1. If you churn too hard cream goes up inside the lid (between the white and silver part) and it cannot be cleaned without removing the lock washers :(2. The plastic gears don't look like they'd make it for the long haul.3. It feels like something is grinding, and black metal dust seemed to be coming up through the lid.4. It is too tall to put back in the fridge when you are frustrated that no butter is being produced.5. It didn't produce any butter. Maybe we got the recipe wrong (cream + minimal salt) or the temperature (cream came out of the fridge, but surely warmed up after an hour or so of churning), or maybe we put in too much cream (there was no fill line) but in any case we never got any butter.Glad for Amazon's great return policy, but wish we could find a simple, quality butter churn.

I had been so hopeful about this kitchen equipment purchase... It's hard to pay more for a hand-cranked churn, and Paderno generally sells best-of-breed products. Unfortunately, this churn has been a real bust. The gears mesh very poorly, and are not adjustable. The driving gear slips across the angled pinion; that requires me to constantly push the handle in toward the center in an attempt to keep the gears engaged. The running of the gears is rough-feeling and noisy even with no product in the container. In addition, and compounding the problem, the central shaft which the pinion is set on has a lot of slop in it, so when I accelerate my cranking speed, or as the cream stiffens up on the way to becoming butter, the paddle gets pulled to the side, making the gears slip even though I'm pushing the handle inward. In fact, after only a few uses, the wear caused by the slipping gears is visible. The more cream I have in the mixing jar, the worse the problem is. The limit is three cups of cream per batch, which only yields the equivalent of two sticks of commercial butter. (Without question, the butter I make myself from minimally-proccessed heavy cream which I first culture for 48 hours is better than those two sticks of commercial butter, however.) I fully expect that the gears won't mesh at all in time. When guests look at the churn with admiration, I hasten to tell them that it doesn't work nearly as well as my stand mixer does for making butter.

The Paderno churn did a stellar job. I actually over filled it with cream off the milk straight from the refrigerator. I usually skim my milk and allow the cream to warm a bit at room temperature. It will churn to butter faster. I filled the churn half full with very cold cream and started 'cranking' The Paderno did the job beautifully. It was very easy to clean and it's size makes it convenient to store away till next time. The cranking mechanism was smooth and handle was solid. This is a butter churn that a child could use. A little cream and oh how their face lights up when 'the magic' happens! I recommend the Paderno World Cuisine Fresh Butter Maker. Enjoy!

this butter maker is good, hence 4 stars. BUT it has a problem. actually, i have a problem :) it takes time and energy, and i am just lazy, so i used it 2-3 times, and then i switched to electrical one. so as a product it is good, but don't overestimate your patience and your strength if you think you will actually make butter manually :)