Sponsored by King’s College Doha Did you know that you can make butter from home?The science of butterCream consists mainly of water and fat. Butter is made from the fat in cream. Fat does not dissolve in water, so it is held in a suspension. It’s hard to tell when you look at cream, but the fat is actually floating as little globules in the cream—imagine lots of fat-filled balloons. These globules help make cream thick.When you shake cream, these fat balloons bump into one another and break, combining the fat into bigger globules. The more you shake, the bigger the globule,…