Is it worth it?

I prefer this for baking and kerrygold for eating

i live in a ghetto shithole full of haitians and drug addicts and president butter is standard at every publix here

I made some chocolate chip cookies with that stuff for our office Christmas party and everyone loved them.

Publix and Wegmans is one thing but try to find that at Walmart.

so in other words you live in a city?

Heard its great for baking or at least cakes

What value is that precicely?

sounds like france

>Buying butter when margerine exists
It's like you're trying to get fat.

If you got out of that shithole then you might be less angry.

You buy the unsalted version for baking

I hope that you're joking because that's stupid and you know it.

Costco sells it for a good price

no i live in a town spaced out over a 7 mile circumference where everything is at least a 15 minute drive away
walmart is for haitians and drug addicts
south florida but there's enough creole to make it feel like fucking paris
i'm not angry i just meant that president butter isn't hard to find outside major cities. i live in a small town.

Maybe in europe, I've lived in NYC for a long time and never seen President butter anywhere. It's generally land-o-lakes where when we as kids would cut out the knees on one side then post it over the boobies on the other side as a cut out. Then the land-o-lakes chick would get boobage.

This is my favorite that I've had in the U.S. although I took a trip to Switzerland and France this past summer and literally the cheapest store brand was better than anything (barring house-made stuff from restaurants) I've had here.

Feels bad man.

Would you people with all of the fancy butter be able to tell the difference in a blind taste test?

are you limited to shit like food lion or are there any higher end markets in your area like superior publix? even in the barren swamp of south florida where seminole reservations and toothless hillbillies are a dime a dozen there's still good import selections at the grocery store without having to go to a farmer's market
>the land o lakes chick would get it hard. mmf.

plugra is GOAT

No I travel around but only see Publix in Florida. NYC stores generally suck which is why I don't limit myself to just one.

I grew up eating Country Crock anytime butter would normally be used by a less trashy family, and it was literally life-changing when I had fresh warm bread with actual butter for the first time.

because they're fucking chocolate chip cookies

you know I've been eating garbage tier butter and butter "spreads" my entire life? So of course I would be able to tell the difference. Those folks that consumed normal butter might not though

Is that like bestiality? Who would do that to a poor defenceless chocolate chip cookie?

>I've lived in NYC for a long time and never seen President butter anywhere.
Where the fuck do you live? Even my shitty supermarket in South Brooklyn has it. And it was easy to find when I lived in the EV/LES as well. Are you in Bed-Stuy or some shit?

I just don't use butter or margarine that much, so I guess I might not tell the difference because it really doesn't matter to me.

Manhattan, it just doesn't matter to me that much so I've never looked for it.

Go into a couple upscale corner groceries and you'll see it. Unless you're in Chinatown or Spanish Harlem.

UES and I avoid those "upscale" places. I don't like getting ripped off by faggots. The only thing "upscale" about them is... nothing.

google: butter makes me smarter

If you can afford to live on the UES it's not getting ripped off, it's just the cost of living. What do you do? Pay UES rent but eat and shop in Spanish Harlem? What's the fucking point? Why are you even living in NYC if you have a thing against faggots? That doesn't make any sense unless you're in Staten Island.

Absolutely. Cultured butter has a distinctly different taste and texture than sweet cream butter.

Why are you assuming shit? I never said I shopped in Spanish Harlem. You're so full of jealously and shit that I suspect that you don't even know it.

I'll try it out sometime, but if in cooking would the difference be noticed? I can understand if it's just on some bread but if I just want to brown some onions and stuff as a precursor to other things would it be noticed?

It's worth it if you're using the butter to make laminated dough as for pies or croissants. If you're poor, no. Otherwise, yes.

Understood.

Hm. I probably wouldn't be able to taste the difference in baked or cooked foods where the butter isn't one of the starring flavors. By itself, spread over something, used as a finishing fat, or in a dish with very few ingredients I would be able to taste it.

UES and worrying about the assumptions other New Yorkers make about you?! You don't belong there.

I used this to make cookies for my students at the end of last semester, and they loved 'em. (Though to be fair, every semester that I've brought in cookies, they disappear in an instant even if I use normal stuff like Breakstones or Land O' Lakes.)

I can tell the difference between President or Kerrygold and Land O' Lakes when I bake cookies. Or maybe I'm just getting better at baking.

Nah!

I just tried this stuff earlier this year for the first time. Honestly I'll never go back to american butter again on my toast.

I'd love to see the industry economically pressured into producing more cultured butter domestically.

What about in buttercreams?

no, it's from cow, but it is very good

Greatest Of All Time
but you knew that

Good quality butter is mandatory for a good buttercream. Absolutely worth it.

I've got a relative's birthday coming up that I'm baking a cake for. I might pick some up (unsalted) to try then.

Dont eat butter. What are you, a faggot?

Are you retard? President butter is everywhere, you fucking faggot. Go and gorge yourself in it like the fag you are.

Why, thank you, captian obvious fag

Go get fucked you fag. Go on a fucking diet. Only a retard would eat that, it makes me feel disgusted by the taste. Stop fucking eating shit

kys. seriously.

I fucking hate butter. Fuck all of you who eat it. It makes me feel sick.

maybe don't click on a butter thread then you insufferable fucking retard

I got some Kerrygold butter recently because it was on sale. It's pretty nice. It's not so hard out of the fridge, and it's good for cooking. It seems slightly more oily than the butter I'm used to, not that that's a problem, just an observation. My grilled cheese sandwiches came out golden brown and delicious. I even did the trick where you make them extra crispy by putting shredded cheese on the outside. Came out great.

No, you should do that. Stop wasting your life away on food

No, i just came here to convey my dissapointment to you guys

I hail from Normandy so butter and cream are all I know. Yes, there is a huge difference, and even between brands there are differences.

I had to grow up in NYC, I had no say in the matter.

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Given that I was only in 3rd grade and a little kid at the time, I really didn't have a lot of input into where I was going to live.

That's a bit harsh for someone just asking a question. Did your pervy uncle touch you the wrong way or something to make you so nasty? Or maybe he touched you in the nono and you got off on it and you're guilty so you take out anger on others.

It's alright. It's better than grocery store brands and bland stick butters, but it's not the most amazing thing ever. I've had Kerrygold butter a few times in my fridge and never regretted it, but I don't specifically seek it out.

Butter makes me vicious. It makes me go mad. I feel triggered

no.
It is better than the bullshit other butters here in the US, but if you can get your hands on some french or Scandinavian (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish) or Finnish butter - go for that all of the time.

Is President butter a good product or just something that company sells to dumb Americans to make us feel "cultured"?

No, it's definitely better than standard American butter. Kerrygold is better than President though.

>all these claims that American butter can't be good

plenty of great farms making butter, try Strauss or Clover (bigger ones)

(haha)

American butter can be good, it just mostly isn't. Amish butter is the fucking shit but obviously not easy to find for most people.

I mean compared to the other brands in a French grocery store. Is it some bottom shelf butter that is every fleabag store or is it a high end product you have to look around for?

>Amish butter is the fucking shit
My favorite farmers market/grocery is run by the Amish. Everything they make it crazy good. I've never bought their butter for some reason. But I will try it next time I go.

You don't have to look around for it. The absolute best butters you can find are the ones that aren't mass produced, but that doesn't mean than mass produced ones aren't still good quality.

This. My uncle got me into butter a year or 2 ago. I was raised with Country Crock for whatever reason. Started buying this shit and damnit it makes such a difference. Especially with my omelettes.

This.

Damn, are you me? Weird.

I will do a side by side taste test between Kerrygold and Plugra butter tomorrow. I'm curious now.

I think I was like 10-11 before I realized that butter and margarine were different things.

The Seminole reservation is further north, the terrifying res that’s close to Miami is the Miccosukee. Every member of the Seminole Tribe gets $7k per year from the Tribe’s various business holdings, which include Hard Rock (as in every Hard Rock Cafe and casino in the world with a couple exceptions), numerous resorts and other commercial real estate in the US, the Caribbean and Mexico, and agriculture (the Seminole own the largest beef herd in Florida and are the fifth largest producer of beef in the country). Some Indian tribes are well run corporations, others are like third world governments. The Miccosukee have a casino or two, but unlike the Seminole who disburse their money into trust accounts held by tribe members, the Miccosukee were literally handing out thousands of dollars in cash every so often to tribe members until they got in trouble with the IRS for it a few years ago. It all got spent on King Ranch F250s and OxyContin so that’s why you will occasionally see an $80,000 truck sitting outside a broken down trailer when you drive on alligator alley through the res.

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Président is a "standard" brand in France. Good enough for everyday use, definitely not the best but much better than cheap brands for sure. It's good, it's made in Normandy from Normandy milk, and it has a nice enough flavor for baking and cooking.
My personal favorites are fresh butter from the farms but as for supermarket butters, pic related is excellent for everyday use. It has an intense creamy flavor.
And also Echiré butter (from Poitou-Charentes) for a more "upscale" use. It's one of the few brands that still use the traditional churning process (only about 10% of butter still use the traditional process in France, which involves fermentation and very slow churning). Expensive but seriously tastes like heaven if you let it melt a bit.
Isigny butter (from Normandy) is traditional too. Has a very unusual taste at first; it's indeed unsalted and yet has this little salty-sour flavor, most possibly from the fresh cream that got slightly matured.

And yes, there is a big difference between grass-fed butter and the other types, hell there are even huge differences between butter from Normandy, Poitou-Charentes, Britanny and so on. It just doesn't melt the same way, so don't even mention the taste.

Yeah but for the price I'll buy heavy cream and just culture my own butter

I miss butter bell user

I work in a bakery and always scrape the hell out of the butter wrappers before discarding. It's an extremely small business and any money saved helps.

Americans rave about kerrygold for some reason, but pic related is actual good Irish butter

Fun stuff, but now you'll be running around trying to score the best milk.

>mainland europe has the best butter
This is just incorrect. Only one you could make a case for is France.

>stop wasting your life away on one of the necessities of life
what should we waste our lives on?

>3-4 sticks a week
el horror

If you go to Trader Joes get this stuff. Significantly cheaper than the other imported brands and in my opinion tastes noticeably better.

You won't produce better results making it yourself. The quality of the cream is what determines the quality of the butter, and high quality cream costs more than high quality butter.

this guy gets it. very nice taste user.