Curious to what butter everyone buys for use on their toast/sandwiches etc.
We buy the Western Star super spreadable, but my parents use a mainland equivalent and thinking of changing!
Out of curiosity wondering what everyone else uses?!
If the option isn’t there, please add it!
Omega 3s and 6s are both polyunsaturated fats. They are incorporated into the body in similar ways but have different effects, they get turned into signalling molecules called eicosanoids. o6 versions are generally pro-inflammatory while o3 ones are generally resolve inflammation.
So the ratio of what you eat affects the ratio of how much of these are present in your cell membranes and the ratio of the metabolites they get turned into.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026049515002450?via%3Dihub#!
Traditionally humans never ate much omega 6 (there's a little bit in meat and nuts) and used to eat a lot more seafood. Nowadays nobody eats enough seafood and new omega 6 vegetable oils have been introduced to the modern diet in the 20th century.
Sunflower oil is pure omega 6, should never have been approved for human consumption. Canola is nice and has a very good omega 3 content.
Butter is mostly saturated fat and low in poly so it doesn't have much of either, I don't think the ratio is particularly important in comparing butter types. Just don't buy sunflower oil margarine.
Here is the influential study on the topic of the omega ratio. Some nutritionists say it doesn't hold up but honestly they're wrong, after having read basically everything on the topic it's still the way to go.
I found the following presentations (and many others) by doctors and professors to be very helpful as a springboard to further research. Their sources are cited in their slides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNz2gWqL0Ng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyxcTZccsE
Does margarine count?
Flora Proactiv Margarine ha
Have you ever watched how margarine is made?
It's like watching petroleum being distilled, it's seriously nasty stuff.
If you saw the natural colour of margarine and how it was made, you'd never eat it again.
Have a look at the ingredients list if you still aren't sure. It's chemical after chemical.
I only eat Devondale Dairy Soft Butter. Ingredients list? Main ingredient is BUTTER (cream and water). The rest is canola oil and a couple of vitamins. No colours or flavours added, and certainly none of the other chemicals that are required to make it all stick together to feel and taste like butter.
OzBargain butter (a.k.a whatever Australian pure butter is cheapest).
Keeping Australians buttered up since may 2021. Thank you gameshark.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/625100
Président. Get that butter. It's got a unique taste
And margarine is hydrogen with flavour. Might as well have a little butter than margarine. Everything in moderation
Hydrogen is a gas and can not be digested.
What I think you meant to say is hydrogenated seed oil, which is partly how margarine is made.
Yep. Thank you for the correction. I appreciate
I have tried the rest, best tasting is Aldi, spreadable or not. And made in Australia
Woolworths brand olive spread for general use, Woolworths brand unsalted butter for cooking
For sandwichs I use whichever "brandname" spreadable variety is on sale because I barely touch it so it lasts forevers, for cooking I use woolies or coles elcheapo brand. Or Ghee
Aldi Organic - 2020 Sydney Royal Cheese and Dairy Show - Gold
link here, page 12 https://www.rasnsw.com.au/globalassets/document-library/rasn…
Curious. In 2021 there was no mention of Aldi anywhere in the report.
They mention Covid as the reason less competitors.
Note: Made in NZ
Devondale salt reduced.
Product of australia and no preservatives.
For cooking home brand stick butter but it has to be product of australia.
Literally none of these as butter. Only exception would be Mainland Speadable but generally make my own, just add olive oil to normal butter…
Butter only
Aldi - Go to for everyday use and better than most local brands. WW Essentials used to be good when it came from NZ but not so much now.
Others when on special and we keep a few on-hand:-
Mainland
President
Kerrygold
Lurpak
Common theme, sad to say are that none are Australian as to be honest we find these much tastier. The Aldi butter is an honourable exception and excellent value so makes the cut.
It's similar with cheese, so Mainland gets that vote too for day/day stuff.
Agree. The WW fake home brand with the cow logo is NZ and it's not very good.
What Butter Do You Use?
The yellow one.
Pepe Saya cultured butter a spread on breads/toast. President or Golden Churn for baking/cooking.
You guys have got to try pepe says just once
Who sells it?
Our local Woolworths has it?
Thanks.
I can't fly to Brisbane though.
usually found in Harris Farms also :)
We don't travel out to the country much these days.
Make my own using thickened cream or Lurpak if I’m feeling lazy.
Make my own using thickened cream
Do you have your own cow?
This is lazy jv. You're better than this, or maybe not…
Tatura butter.
Pepe saya not getting a lot of love here, y'all missing out
I use pepe saya for almost everything except baking, just because of price and considering how much butter is needed in some of these recipes. For baking I use either lurpak or kerrygold, whatever's on special at the time of purchase
Devondale Dairy Soft.
It's like 68% actual butter (just cream and water, and is higher butter content than Western Star or Lurpak), and then the rest is canola oil to help it spread better and drop the bad fat a tad, and a couple vitamins… that's it.
To me that's a good balance to full butter (too much fat, too hard to spread, and doesn't keep as long).
Dairy Soft for nearly 20 years now (after being a Medowlea kid growing up), and now approaching 50 with a cholesterol of 3.7… cheering! :)
Margarine is banned in my house! Guests have to bring their own :)
NUT BUTTER
Pepe for bread.
Western star butter for cooking.
We find cream goes bad way too quick.. especially after you open the container, so any leftovers is easily turned into beautiful whipped butter, just throw in a bit of salt during the process and you're set. Free butter for life.
Nuttelex Buttery, its actually pretty food for fake butter. We have someone in the household with a dairy and soy intolerance so its just easier to find something suitable for everyone than buying 2 different types of 'butters.'
BTS brand. They are smooth like butter.
I used to work at a butter factory.
They all come from the same mix, same salt ratio's and same pipe.
Also all butter we produced had added extra vitamin D, full rubber gloves face shield and tyvex was needed when handling lol.
Coles, Woolies, western star, duck river, mainland. They were all the same stuff.
However while working there they brought in the mainland organic where all the machinery had to be cleaned out before doing runs. mainland organic has a way better flavour profile.
So, the same factory makes the all the butter, but gets packaged differently (also at the factory)?
All the brands I listed, we produced, all the packaging is in the factory and you would just pause the machine change the packaging and continue once the quota was made.
Ive also worked in the frozen veggie industry and the highest grade you can get is all coles and woolies brand are all AAA grade 1 Australian produce,
Whilst brands like birds eye uses grade 4 peas, corn from usa, snap peas, broccoli, cauliflower from china.
wtf! And those brands actually charge more!
Cheers for this info!
@KSMLJ: Just contract agreements with australias biggest supermarkets are held in such high regard all ingredients have to be the best of the best, losing a contract with either one of these is a massive hit to the business, pretty much losing coles or woolworths is a killer.
However big brand names already have the household name and rely on that to bring sales in so the ingredients can be subpar and still bring in the big dollars.
Eye opener !!
What’s this about the face shield and vitamin D ?
@the4thzodiac: In super high concentrates its poisonous nothing irregular however almost anything in high concentrates is toxic.
I've worked mostly in food manufacture industry.
I'm currently in the farmed salmon industry.
Pepe saya butter and a butter bell to keep butter soft and stays fresh.
There are actually two types of Coles butter. An Aussie one and a NZ imported one. The NZ one (for some reason) is heaps better. Stays quite soft, even in the fridge
Proactiv Buttery
Information I didn't know I wanted. Thx. Might try some popular spreads.
Aldi’s. We don’t use the spreadable version.
https://www.aldi.com.au/en/groceries/fresh-produce/dairy-egg…
500gm for $4.99
Agreed - both this and the salted version are our go to butter.
Have tried heaps and this seems to be the best "standard" butter around - see my earlier comment re other options.
100% !
Meadow lea
ETA Margarine
I'm curious that so many people use butter and not "fake" spreads like Olive Grove etc?
because there is no option for fake spread
THey don't live long in Mediterranean
yes. they do.
No
@gimli: With an average life expectancy of 82.8, the Mediterranean diet remains the gold standard for living longer and healthier.
Do some homework.. don't act like a 3yo
Why anyone in Australia feels the need to buy Lurpak is beyond me! European friends and family have laughed when they've seen Lurpak on our supermarket shelves. It is not particularly good butter – certainly not good enough to justify the price or the need to ship it halfway around the world in refrigerated containers. There are better, cheaper and arguably more environmentally friendly Australian butters readily available e.g. Farmer's Table (3/4 of the price of Lurpak).
Pepe Saya when I can be bothered to stump up $8.99 for a block of butter otherwise Lurpak.
doesn't compare..
Lupak is meh.. peps butter is awesome
Kerrygold
Mainland Buttersoft for spreadable (because as many have noted, it's just butter, whipped). Ballantyne for normal cooking. Pepe Saya for special occasions.
Also, this crowd should definitely check out VaderTheCreator's butter reviews: https://www.youtube.com/user/laxivan2/videos.
make your own butter and whipped butter
https://www.thespruceeats.com/homemade-whipped-butter-427820
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/42264/homemade-butter/
cheaper, better and you know that there are no additives.
surprised there are not that many that make their own…very easy (takes a few mins of wisking) and cheap.
Buy Bulla 5L full cream from NQR for around $6, makes around 4-5kg of butter…all you do is wipp it for few mins and the by product is butter milk
Whisk it in a mixer?
you could, i only have a hand mixer something like this, first it turns to wipped cream, then a few mins more, buttermilk starts forming and butter starts to solidify, then eventually it becomes a nice consistency, wash it under called water and viola…follow this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psh3QVgw6Pk
Cheers for that!
Learnt something new!
First time I made it I didn't get all the water out, so was a bit crystallised lol
I mostly consume oil instead of butter..
Most things are easier and cheaper to make then buy
I've never used butter - always used margarine for bread/toast. Should I not be using it?
Butter is generally agreed to be tastier. Why would anyone eat margarine? What's the point?
Contrary to what people were taught last century, butter isn't unhealthy, it's natural and has a decent nutritional value. The artificial gloop is not healthier and might actually be worse depending on ingredients.
Transfats.
And also, real butter tastes and melts differently.
i dont use butter or margarine on my bread.
Duck river. Oh yeah baby.
Since we are on the topic of Butter..
Do you use Salted or Unsalted ??..
Both.
Im not on the topic of butter….
Salted.
Was there an announcement about this becoming a butter forum or something?
I think OzB is spreading itself too thin.
Assumed it had become a butter forum ..
Less churn than WP.
are you saying you assaulted the butter?
whip'd
Le Conquerant salted butter, the best IMO.
It's just not available everywhere so if anyone has any recommendations as to any butter similar to it, let me know!
Interesting fact and not a poll option but Aldi's Beautifully Butterfully Dairy Blend is in fact Western Star Spreadable Original Soft. Same packaging, similar colour scheme, exact same nutritional values and same ingredients. $3.49 (Aldi) vs $5.50 (WS).
I discovered butter blend (comes in all brands) recently. I dunno if it's new? But it's super soft. I get the Coles brand one
Pepe Saya.
Get the 2kg.
The best butter
Any deals if you buy 2 kgs ?
look on his website.
Could only find the 15% off on first order, any leads other than please
Devondale claims "free grazing cattle" (and is Australian and cheaper), Lurpak makes no such claim.
PS. Interested to read more about Omega 3/6 ratio thing - got any studies you can point me to?