What's your favourite butter?

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I'm aware this is a highly personal thing! As I'm sat here eating my lunch. A jacket potato with a shit tonne of butter and sharp cheddar. Crispy seasoned skin. It's heaven.

I am a clover girl through and through. If I cant get clover, I'll find a shop that does. I tried to get on the lurpak hype and it's nice on crusty bread. I'm aware clover isn't pure butter either.

What's your go to butter? And your favourite combos?

I make my own...

You can make it in a stand mixer or even a bread machine. It's not really messy but I do suggest a clear sink and draining board before you start.

The M&S French butter with sea salt crystals.
we also get a really really lovely one when we go to France but I don’t remember it’s name.

I used butter block for fancier evenings, you know.. cheese and olives kind of night.

I use lurpak salted for everyday use 😂

If you can't taste any difference between brands, then just buy the cheapest. IME the difference is mostly to do with the quality of the milk, which can be affected by multiple factors like the breed of cow, the type of food, the environment, the climate etc.

Do you all have butter dishes?

I use Lurpak spreadable because I can't stand trying to make sandwiches and it pulls all the bread up with hard butter. But I'm willing to get a butterdish and give it a try now it's cold enough for it to not melt out on the counter if that's the way forward...

I've got a kilner one

President unsalted.

Aldi Nordpak tastes like Lurpak at less than half the price Im not paying £5.75 for a tub of spreadable butter

Country Life is my favourite 'standard' butter, but I buy Trewithen Farm when in Cornwall. I don't waste those for cooking (just use supermarket own brand).

I have been thinking about trying to make my own, but it does seem odd to use what I consider a luxury product (double cream) to make an everyday one.

For those who make their butter, how much cream do you use to give you 250g of butter?

And what do you do with the buttermilk? I know I could make scones but I don't eat scones nearly as often as I eat butter so I can imagine I would end up with an awful lot of buttermilk!

I only buy it when it's on special offer and freeze it. We are getting an Aldi soon though so I'll try nordpak

5.75 is for 750g.

We’ve got a vintage Lurpak butter dish with Douglas on it.
I love President salted.
I’ve yet to try Longley Farm butter but am going to hunt it down following recommendations here. I love their yogurt.

I feel like some kind of butter philistine having only ever bought the cheap home brand or Anchor. Now desperately scrolling through Ocado looking for something more exciting but not really sure what I would use
It on! Don't eat toast or baked potatoes. Think I would do better making some and feeding to everyone whilst getting a lot of self satisfaction for being a domestic goddess for a moment. Then go back to supermarket Own brand.

Well I've just got back from Sainsbury's for our food shop. Needed butter for me but they didn't have the Taste the Difference West Country Farmhouse butter I usually get so perused the aisle for a different one.
Have settled on & bought Castle Dairies Salted Welsh Butter with Halen Mon - it had the highest salt count 2.5g. Will report back.

www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/castle-dairies-salted-welsh-butter-with-halen-m%C3%B4n-anglesey-sea-salt-crystals-200g

Oh & for those looking for Trewithen Cornish butter it's sold in lots of places in Devon & Somerset. They had it in Sainsbury's in Taunton Somerset today on offer at £2 with a Nectar Card.

I get it in Tesco!

It's sold in my local Tesco (just outside M25)

Ocado also have Trewithen Cornish butter

Same. (Inside the M25)

French butter with sea salt crystals. The more the better when it’s on a jacket spud.

It's (margarine) also one of the most unhealthy fats you can eat - it is "hydrogenated vegetable oil" - aka trans fatty acid. The one fat we are told to entirely avoid and which is found in biscuits and baked goods (because they're made with marge instead of butter, much cheaper).
Leave a block outside and it doesn't go off - even microbes know better than to touch it.
Foul, unnatural stuff!

Lurpak
And non dairy Naturli Organic

This is my butter of choice as well - last year I started getting milk delivered from Milk & More and decided to buy and try some from them, it's so lovely! And I like knowing you're getting the full 250g (as some companies have shrunk their block butters!) and it's a really nice, UK-made product.

Seeing as the thread has re-emerged, I can report back from my butter experiment to say that out of several fancy butters, the only one that stood out as anything special or different to basic own brand block butter was Trewithen Cornish butter.

So from now on, we'll likely have whatever's cheapest for real butter as we don't use 'spread in tubs' unless Trewithin is on offer. Although I did get Asda's extra special west country butter the other day, which I'm hoping might be a good dupe for Trewithin, which doesn't seem to be in any local supermarkets and noteably it seemed slightly softer than other types of butter, which is useful at this time of year. But we've not opened it yet, so can't comment on the taste.

Reporting back as we bought and froze a block of Lurpak, in the reclosable box. I’ve only just noticed after using it, it’s 180g. Not even 200! The audacity.

Any unsalted 100% butter in a block. At the moment I've got Waitrose.