I'm fed up of getting the butter out the fridge and it's like a block of concrete. I think the last one I had was actually Anchor Spreadable which certainly wasn't. So any suggestions ?
Butter that really is spreadable straight from the fridge?
Kerrygold used to make real Softer Butter now they mix it with Olive Oil. Its perfectly OK as is Anchor but its not butter IMO 
The closest I found is M&S softer butter which really is.
The closest I found is M&S softer butter which really is.
Butter should be kept in the fridge but a daily amount should be kept in a butter dish at room temperature. There was an expert on the radio a while ago that said this.
Kerrygold softer butter is still 100% butter according to their website. Though I rarely find it where I shop.
http://www.kerrygold.co.uk/home/prod...-softer-butter
I usually get the Lurpak spreadable, it isn't ideal but is okay.
http://www.kerrygold.co.uk/home/prod...-softer-butter
I usually get the Lurpak spreadable, it isn't ideal but is okay.
As another poster has said and what I do.
I cut a chunk off and store it in a butter dish
works fine and I have nice spreadable butter (unless the kitchen is REALLY cold)
Rather have butter that way than butter that been mixed with oils, oversalted or mega-churned too death.
I cut a chunk off and store it in a butter dish
works fine and I have nice spreadable butter (unless the kitchen is REALLY cold) Rather have butter that way than butter that been mixed with oils, oversalted or mega-churned too death.
The butter dish idea sounds like a good one - I'll give it a try as I have found butter to be tastier that the spreads, margarines.
Thanks all for the replies
Thanks all for the replies
Originally Posted by diablo:
“Kerrygold softer butter is still 100% butter according to their website. Though I rarely find it where I shop.
http://www.kerrygold.co.uk/home/prod...-softer-butter
I usually get the Lurpak spreadable, it isn't ideal but is okay.”
“Kerrygold softer butter is still 100% butter according to their website. Though I rarely find it where I shop.
http://www.kerrygold.co.uk/home/prod...-softer-butter
I usually get the Lurpak spreadable, it isn't ideal but is okay.”
Cheers, might have to check my local Morrisons. I know a while ago they stopped selling Softer Butter and replaced it with Spreadable where I shopped.
If you find that your butter is spreadable straight from the frige then it means only one thing..........
you've had a power cut!
you've had a power cut!
Originally Posted by burton07:
“Butter should be kept in the fridge but a daily amount should be kept in a butter dish at room temperature. There was an expert on the radio a while ago that said this.”
“Butter should be kept in the fridge but a daily amount should be kept in a butter dish at room temperature. There was an expert on the radio a while ago that said this.”
Any reason why you cant slice off as much as you need from the solid butter brick and gently nuke it in the micro until its spreadable?
Originally Posted by Shrike:
“Any reason why you cant slice off as much as you need from the solid butter brick and gently nuke it in the micro until its spreadable?”
“Any reason why you cant slice off as much as you need from the solid butter brick and gently nuke it in the micro until its spreadable?”
Nope, I do that as well when I forget to take a lump from the fridge. (I use those little glass dessert dishes you get from those Gu puds, they are brill as mini butter dishes)
Originally Posted by stud u like:
“Lurpak and Country Life work well from the refrigerator.”
“Lurpak and Country Life work well from the refrigerator.”
Not from my fridge they don't!
Originally Posted by burton07:
“Butter should be kept in the fridge but a daily amount should be kept in a butter dish at room temperature. There was an expert on the radio a while ago that said this.”
“Butter should be kept in the fridge but a daily amount should be kept in a butter dish at room temperature. There was an expert on the radio a while ago that said this.”
An "expert" eh?
Originally Posted by burton07:
“Butter should be kept in the fridge but a daily amount should be kept in a butter dish at room temperature. There was an expert on the radio a while ago that said this.”
“Butter should be kept in the fridge but a daily amount should be kept in a butter dish at room temperature. There was an expert on the radio a while ago that said this.”
Thats about right, I tend to keep around 100g of butter in a butter dish and the rest in the fridge.
I use an insulated butter dish on the worktop, keeps the butter nice and spreadable but firm enough even in quite hot weather.
Originally Posted by stud u like:
“Lurpak and Country Life work well from the refrigerator.”
“Lurpak and Country Life work well from the refrigerator.”
If they do then there is something wrong with your fridge. I can leave butter out on the table in this weather and it still solid,
Butter by it's very nature will not be soft in a fridge, if it is then it is not butter.
Why do people pay so much for Lurpack? i had some a couple of weeks back it was on offer, but it was not that nice.
at the moment I am buying my butter from Aldi, 98p each and it is pretty good, but if I want great butter, then I buy some from out local butter market
Not that they sell much better there these days, it is full of different stalls, but it called the butter market because many years ago it sold just dairy products.Anyway the butter i get from there is a farmhouse butter made at a local farm, cost £1.60 mind you, but oh so nice.
Originally Posted by Toby LaRhone:
“An "expert" eh?”
“An "expert" eh?
”
Yes, it was on Woman's Hour and they were talking to a woman from The Dairy Council. Why would you doubt it?
Originally Posted by Badcat:
“That's not actually butter.”
“That's not actually butter.”
Correct. No 'proper' butter is spreadable from the fridge, anything that is is probably oil based.
Originally Posted by noise747:
“If they do then there is something wrong with your fridge. I can leave butter out on the table in this weather and it still solid,
Butter by it's very nature will not be soft in a fridge, if it is then it is not butter.
Why do people pay so much for Lurpack? i had some a couple of weeks back it was on offer, but it was not that nice.
at the moment I am buying my butter from Aldi, 98p each and it is pretty good, but if I want great butter, then I buy some from out local butter market Not that they sell much better there these days, it is full of different stalls, but it called the butter market because many years ago it sold just dairy products.
Anyway the butter i get from there is a farmhouse butter made at a local farm, cost £1.60 mind you, but oh so nice.”
“If they do then there is something wrong with your fridge. I can leave butter out on the table in this weather and it still solid,
Butter by it's very nature will not be soft in a fridge, if it is then it is not butter.
Why do people pay so much for Lurpack? i had some a couple of weeks back it was on offer, but it was not that nice.
at the moment I am buying my butter from Aldi, 98p each and it is pretty good, but if I want great butter, then I buy some from out local butter market
Not that they sell much better there these days, it is full of different stalls, but it called the butter market because many years ago it sold just dairy products.Anyway the butter i get from there is a farmhouse butter made at a local farm, cost £1.60 mind you, but oh so nice.”
I've even made my own using double cream and my mixer when I ran out over xmas
Originally Posted by Badcat:
“I've even made my own using double cream and my mixer when I ran out over xmas”
“I've even made my own using double cream and my mixer when I ran out over xmas
”
Easy, but maybe more expensive.in the long run. but so nice.
I buy 6 packets in one go, saves me bothering to pop into aldis again for a while, even if I do past it going home from work.
i don't think butter is like it used to be, I have no idea what they do to it.
