What's the difference between drawn and melted butter?

[atom]

A recipe I was looking at said I should use drawn butter, but that melted butter is acceptable as well. So.....WTH is the difference?

 

[sygyzy]

Drawn butter has the fat seperated. Melted is just melted.

 

[atom]

Aight, thanks.

So after I melt the butter I just skim the fat off? Bah I'm too lazy to do that...............

 

[GroundZero]

drawn butter is also called clarified butter.
melt the butter and sepparate the solids.

 

[sygyzy]

Atom - That is correct.

 

[Howard]

Is there a problem if you replace standard butter in a recipe with clarified butter?

 

[BigPoppa]

Clarified butter loses most of the milkfat. So yes, there is a difference. At the restaurant I worked at, we used clarified butter in most sauces, and normal butter in the actual foods.