Actual butter. This video spent way too much time on MARGARINE, not butter. Out of MARGARINE, my favourite not-butter was Earth Balance vegan buttery sticks from my severe lactose intolerance days. My favourite actual butter is Kerrygold. My SO loves a locally available butter from Hiland Dairy.
I worked an event sponsored by Kerry Gold and there was a lot left over and I got to take 2 cases of their butter. I was putting an entire half pound into mashed potatoes and half a brick into sauces and making pound cakes. The whole family got fat over those couple of months.
Why not share with friends family and neighbors that would have helped you from using so much of the butter and kept the weight off you and your family. Just sayin
Got fat most likely from the potatoes and other carbs but not from the butter. Yes butter has considerable calories but if you’re low carb diet it shouldn’t cause you to put on weight. Unless you happen to eat it by the case.😀
This isn't about butter--it's about margarine. Left outside, not even crows will eat margarine. We have banned margarine from our house. In fact, the calories are about the same, and once real science was conducted (omitting preconceived concluded MDs who scared everybody about cholesterol), real butter from milk is fine as an additive for cooking.
Yes high cholesterol was just another falsehood that scared the public since our bodies manufacture cholesterol on their own. The food pyramid is so wrong And unhealthy. After he died they found that Ancel Keys’ research was faulty and he didn’t follow his own guidelines.
@@jasonkinsey5887 Margarine is not food. It is an imitation food product designed to help Big Ag get rid of rancid O-6 seed oils that cause inflammation, oxidation, glycation and heart disease. Eating margarine is like shoving a fire hose down your throat and pumping free radicals into you body. Like soft drinks margarine has a negative nutritional value.
As for the best butter, I agree that Kerrygold is the best...but pricey...I buy it occasionally for things like grits, toast, mashed potatoes, and anything where the butter flavor should stand out...otherwise, I buy Land O Lakes (In spite of them removing the beautiful Native American princess on their label...I miss her)...for baking, Challenge butter does fine...BTW, why did you even INCLUDE margarines in this list??? They AREN'T butter!!!!!!
My Costco carries Kerrygold and I grab a box or two every time it goes on sale. Price per lb it ends up being about the same as buying in smaller packages for lesser brands. I just freeze the extra and have not noticed any decline in quality.
@@mikewrasman5103 Native Americans find it offensive. Only a fool of a corporation chooses to offend their customers. Obviously you have never run a company.
Tillamook is a good sweet cream butter. Danish Creamery butter is my go to second. However my favorite and Number 1 is Kerrygold Butter hands down especially for when I cook Steak.
I think that last line says it all, Kerrygold tastes like real butter!! It's sad that I find that most modern butters have no real flavor any more. Land o lakes used to be good and you'd get the taste in baked goods, but now it's no longer the case.
The most delicious butter I ever tasted was in Germany. We stayed at a small inn there and along with breakfast, they would serve fresh baked crusty rolls with butter. Heavenly💕
Higher price, and bigger carbon footprint (shipping across an ocean). That's as American as you can get. Time to jump in the Escalade, drive to Whole Foods, and buy some.
Great question, "grass finished" almost slipped past me. Here is my theory, the animal was grain fed up until maturity, or whatever age the cow is milked, then grass fed once it started producing. My basis for that is I have heard that term used for beef cattle being used in that way.
Actually I love great butter and will spend it on Kerrygold and Plugra, that was not highlighted. I like it as much as Kerrygold. I have never tried Tillamook and will give it a go. Land O Lakes and Challenge was used when I was much younger, and hadn't really gotten into taste testing a high end butter yet. Once I did, I never went back to them.
Why were all those margarines even mentioned? Have a butter substitute list if you must, but don't waste time on a butter list ranking marge. Then again, Kerrygold's good, but the best shop bought?
Costco has the best prices on Kerrygold butter. Tillamook is my 2nd favorite next to Kerrygold, but is hard to find. I have never seen Kerrygold cheese at the supermarket. BTW, Tillamook is my favorite cheese.
Kerrygold is the best readily available butter in supermarkets, and it is what I regularly buy. But the absolute best is gourmet French butter like Beurre d'Isigny.
I buy whatever real butter is on sale. Grocery chain brands and dollar store brands - as long as its real butter I'm not that picky. During these inflationary times I'm not spending twice as much for Kerrygold.
Back in the 1970s my wife brought home some margarine and I tasted it. I have never eaten the artificial stuff since. I have always insisted on butter all when the Health Establishment said it wasn't "Heart Healthy!" I've always believed in natural products and if you have to take a product through chemistry to make it taste anywhere near what the natural product taste like, It CANNOT be Good For You! I was proven right when it was found that Hydrogenated Oils in products is a nutritional nightmare. PS: I love Kerrygold and Tillamook. But ANY Butter is BETTER than Margarine!
Lurpack is the best you can get, often one of the more expensive, but when it's on offer, I stock up according to date wise. Mind you I've not heard of most of the brands in this vid, but think they are American, and I'm UK
"Everything is 'subjective.' Many of you may not know this - but Imperial - was one of the few first ones to be a 'substitute' to butter, and more importantly was it's price compared to real butter, no matter the manufacturer. It's availability at the time was 'very wide' too - so those two factors alone made it a 'popular' 'butter' or more correctly a 'butter substitute." I wonder if the parents back then - 'passed' their 'love' for that substitute to their kids by being the 'primary butter substitute' they use. Also - back then and probably still today - 'butter' is a widely 'confused'/'improperly term' used when dealing with 'butter' and 'butter substitutes.' Most if not all brands are available at your local supermarket/grocery store. Albeit now-a-days many are, but I don't know at least half of the brands mentioned. I was born in Seattle and about 20 years ago moved to California. So Darigold I do know and trust and back then was probably one of thee best butters around! But then again - we get to people whom need manage their cholesterol... Being in the grocery store and taking what 3 minutes of my time to look over the numbers... I had no choice but to use and subsequently call Smart Balance one of the best butter substitutes; as taste wasn't a factor in its use. KerryGold is indeed the Golden Standard of "Butter!" Albeit not as often as I like, but It's lighter; ie: not as "heavy" as "American Butter", and definitely more creamy. Albeit I haven't looked at the numbers and I don't think I'll ever will. So maybe a 'division' here for the future... A few other things considered...
I'm in Hawaii this review and these Kerrygold anecdotes are making me want to try it on a toasted slice of Costco cranberry walnut loaf lol. I've never seen it on chain supermarket shelves here, haven't checked the natural food stores yet though
Kerrygold is almost the best I've had. But, since butter is so easy to make, I'll stack my cultured creme fresh butter up against it. Yes, it takes a few days to make it, but about 20 minutes of real work. steve
I make my own also with cream I culture. However we can't get the proper cream here in the US, just UHT which doesn't culture well. Kerrygold comes from grass fed cows, not grain fed so it is much healthier. The Irish make the best butter and Guinness in the world.
@@joepangean6770, that may be cheap shot. Far as I know, Guinness is only brewed in Ireland. (However, I DO agree! Both on the butter, and the Guinness!)
I would rather see a review from a southern mom who cares about the taste and not whether it is grass finished, organic, has ingredients they are not familiar with or what online reviewers who often penalize a product because it arrived late from Amazon.
@@RaymondHng yeah, got thru the whole thing. Been in enough restaurants where they bring margarine/ oleo/ crisco like substance colored and flavored instead of butter like I requested. A war time substitute for the real thing that is still sold as good for you... Hydrolized plant oil!
Try Hope Creamery butter if you are in the Minnesota area. I live in Illinois and have it shipped. Hope butter is the last large churn butter maker. All the other national butters are made in the continuous process. This is great butter and cheaper than KerryGold. Even shipped. Great flavor.
Do most people even know what farm fresh-churned butter tastes like? I will try Kerrygold. I use Land O Lakes butter. It seems to be the most popular brand among my friends. I admit it does not taste like real farm-fresh churned butter. I loved spending the night with cousins who always had fresh churned butter on toast or biscuits. My aunts pound cakes were to die for made with fresh churned butter from her parents farm. Yummy memories!
So why not just call this video a ranking of "popular butter and margarine brands", rather than lumping them all as "butter"? I grew up in Wisconsin, "America's Dairyland," and for many years as a child my parents would make "margarine runs" across the border to Illinois, because it was illegal to sell colored margarine in Wisconsin. I've never had a problem telling margarine apart from butter. I use butter in cooking when it's on special at the supermarket, and "spreadable butter" (usually a butter & canola oil blend) for special occasions as a table spread, but don't have a problem using margarine (stick or soft) for everyday.
Where I am from all butter can contain legally is cream and salt. That's it. Nothing else. Kerrygold is viewed as pretty much a bog standard product in the UK rather than anything premium. However in the US the FDA have a completely different idea about what constitutes 'food'. Which does not necessarily coincide with what people call food in the rest of the world.
Am i the only one that thinks that Kerrygold tastes like margarine? I buy a lot of butter, locally mostly (Europe) and it has very pleasant soft and creamy taste. I ate margarine when i was a kid and Kerrygold tastes the same. Is salt the reason it tastes like that? 🤔 I also bought European salted butters and they still tasted creamy and soft.
Why are they reviewing margerine brands? The frickin title is "16 butter brands"!!! Words mean things. Maybe the word "Butter" doesn't mean "solidified churned cream" in the UK. For a country that spawned the english language they often play fast and loose with it.
There is no international governing body that regulates use of the English language. However, there is regulation in countries on the labeling used on the packaging of food products. Only real butter can be labeled on the package as _butter_ . The substitute products are labeled as _vegetable oil spread_ or _margarine_ .
I feel like everyone knows that unless it says butter, it's not butter. I probably would've named this video, "16 popular Butter and Butter-like Brands Ranked Worst to Best". And you have to be an idiot if you think that I Can't Believe it's Not Butter is butter.
In India, almost 90 percent people use Amul butter, honestly I dont even know how other brand butter tastes. I have tried President but haven’t liked it. Amul is the market leader here and we don’t even want to switch.
They probably date back to WWII when margarine came out to replace butter which wasn't available. I remember my grandmother putting a little dye packet of yellow into the margarine which was an unappetizing white otherwise. You mixed in your own coloring...
Once I came across Kerrygold more than 2 decades ago, I've never gone back. Darigold and Land O Lakes are a close second when Kerrygold isn't available. The. margarines always tasted funny to me and when I found out there was no nutritional value to it, I refuse to use any. margarine. When it doesn't melt, beware.
The first half of this video was about "spreads" which are margarines! Margarine is definitely NOT butter!!! Made with hydrogenated oils and added ingredients that I prefer not to ingest....
The title misleading, margarine IS DEFINITELY NOT BUTTER and I might have to add that almost any REAL BUTTER IS ALWAYS SUPERIOR! I have had Kerrygold in Ireland, but I prefer French Butter, but really hard to find and yes I had it in France.
Butter is a commodity, it's actually fungible. Brands put their "special ingredients and manufacturing methods" to make it seem worth the extra expense. When it hits the pan, it melts like the butterfat it is.
If you're going to compare butter brands how about actually using butter and not margarine margarine's not allowed in my house so this video does nothing for me we don't eat plastic in our house
