Let’s get to know each others butter

[newme]

Tried that one for the first time recently. Love the big chunks of salt in it. Assume it's discounted to get it out there and will become as expensive as the others soon.

In Cornwall so they've had it for ages here, it's usually about the same price anyway, was 25p off I think last time but thats still cheaper than the others except tesco's at full price.

 

[ouirdeaux]

I don't really eat butter. Several months ago I saw some crumpets and had a sudden desire to eat them, so I bought some. Afterwards, I gave the rest of the butter away. I don't rememer what brand it was (probably Tesco own brand), but it was certainly salted.

 

[urbanspaceman]

Cultured Butter

It's a sort of delicious super-buttery butter. I use as a spread on toast, etc. I don't know if it makes a difference when used as a cooking ingredient

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(From Wikipedia: "Before modern factory butter making, cream was usually collected from several milkings and was therefore several days old and somewhat fermented by the time it was made into butter. Butter made in this traditional way (from a fermented cream) is known as cultured butter. During fermentation, the cream naturally sours as bacteria convert milk sugars into lactic acid. The fermentation process produces additional aroma compounds, including diacetyl, which makes for a fuller-flavored and more "buttery" tasting product.")

 

[WouldBe]

Flora proactive. Which is about as close as I get to active these days.

 

[ouirdeaux]

On a matter of principle, I dislike adjectives about food that make me feel worried that I might not measure up to them. Proactive or cultured butter. (Extra) mature cheese.

 

[PTK]

My friend is intolerant of dairy products, but she is not butter about it.

 

[Silas Loom]

On a matter of principle, I dislike adjectives about food that make me feel worried that I might not measure up to them. Proactive or cultured butter. (Extra) mature cheese.

Refined sugar?

 

[bcuster]

Frankly my parents go all out for butter and have this stuff

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Except when in Ireland

unpasteurized? I don't know that anything like that is available here

 

[ouirdeaux]

Refined sugar?

That too. I don't need to feel implicitly put down by my food.

 

[Silas Loom]

That too. I don't need to feel implicitly put down by my food.

Get some flaky pastry, then. Buy it well in advance and cook it before the use by date, to emphasise your superiority.

 

[20Bees]

Kerrygold.

 

[tim]

Does anyone here buy cream and whip it into butter themselves? I have a colleague who does, and she's almost as lazy as me, so it can't be too difficult.

According to the BBC you can do it with a glass jar and a marble.

 

[Siouxsie]

Kerrygold or Country life spreadable....I hate ripping fresh bread up with cold butter, ruins the ceremony!

 

[Happy Tree]

I just put a few chunks of butter in a ramekin and microwavvy for 15 secs.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Does anyone here buy cream and whip it into butter themselves? I have a colleague who does, and she's almost as lazy as me, so it can't be too difficult.

No, but I've been known to make my own water with a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen. Something to while away the long winter nights.

According to the BBC you can do it with a glass jar and a marble.

Against my will, I admit to being intrigued.

 

[tim]

No, but I've been known to make my own water with a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen. Something to while away the long winter nights.


Against my will, I admit to being intrigued.

It looks rather unappealing to be honest.

 

[Saffy]

Does anyone here buy cream and whip it into butter themselves? I have a colleague who does, and she's almost as lazy as me, so it can't be too difficult.

According to the BBC you can do it with a glass jar and a marble.

I've done it when I got a load of cheap double cream. Very easy to do in a food mixer but you have to wash it really well to remove all the buttermilk otherwise it will make it go rancid quickly. Then you use the buttermilk to make pancakes or scones.
I made loads of garlic butter with wild garlic and frozen it.

 

[geminisnake]

Does anyone here buy cream and whip it into butter themselves? I have a colleague who does, and she's almost as lazy as me, so it can't be too difficult.

According to the BBC you can do it with a glass jar and a marble.

I have done this a couple of times when I've found cream in the reduced section, it is very easy but I did use a hand blender.

I buy Lidl lurpak, think it's called Danpak, it's got a higher butter content than the Aldi version and yes I could taste the difference. I don't like other spreads/margarine, they are too greasy to me.

 

[Happy Tree]

I once made butter by putting two mice in a bucket of cream.

 

[iona]

Local stuff or that cultured butter someone posted up-thread if I feel like a treat, Kerrygold otherwise. Always salted.

Lidl own brand unsalted for baking unless it has to be vegan (in which case Stork, or that Naturli stuff if I've been south recently and brought some back).

 

[Rebecca Riot]

If I'm feeling flush I buy Shirgar but usually buy Tesco or Morrisons salted butter.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Thanks to my failing body I am now on this, and those little yoghurt drinks that do the same

 

[Elpenor]

If I'm feeling flush I buy Shirgar but usually buy Tesco or Morrisons salted butter.

Thought Shirgar would have been made into glue

 

[Rebecca Riot]

Thought Shirgar would have been made into glue

Funnily enough, when is was in Tesco back in the summer there were a couple of holidaymakers looking at the local butters and the woman picked up a block of shirgar and said to the man "I wonder why they named it after that horse that disappeared?"

I didn't have the heart to tell her that the butter has been around a lot longer than the poor horse was!

 

[krtek a houby]

Dairy free margarine, but I do miss the peerless Kerrygold

 

[BassJunkie]

unpasteurized? I don't know that anything like that is available here

I have come to realise that unpasteurised cheese is like an entirely different product with much deeper flavour.

 

[tony.c]

Only Lurpak Spreadable. I think butter producers should have samples available in supermarkets so I could try others. I am reluctant to buy a whole pack in case I don't like it.

 

[Chz]

Spreadable, because I'm a wrong'un who thinks there's nothing wrong with some margarine in my butter. I still like the novelty, as it was something that the dairy industry got banned back home for the longest time. (they're allowed it now)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Does anyone here buy cream and whip it into butter themselves? I have a colleague who does, and she's almost as lazy as me, so it can't be too difficult.

According to the BBC you can do it with a glass jar and a marble.

We made some at primary school using the cream from school milk - it was easy enough as a process but does take some elbow grease if you're doing it by hand.

 

[danny la rouge]

Funnily enough, when is was in Tesco back in the summer there were a couple of holidaymakers looking at the local butters and the woman picked up a block of shirgar and said to the man "I wonder why they named it after that horse that disappeared?"

I didn't have the heart to tell her that the butter has been around a lot longer than the poor horse was!

Yes, I too was fascinated by Shirgar when I was in Hay on Wye last year.