Butter-what's your favourite and how much is it?

[FlatteredRhubardFool]

Currently on KerryGold which is £1.90 and rarely on offer. I used to buy Tesco own label but since lockdown I haven't been shopping there. We go through a 250g every couple of days due to my dcs addiction to freshly baked bread toasted and buttered.
What's your favourite?
(I don't want to get into any discussion about butter v spreadable products just want to hear good butter recommendations really).

Lurpak is lactic butter which is why it's paler.

President salted block butter or Wykes salted block butter. It has to be real butter none of this spreadable or marge.

Depends what it’s for.

For cooking and baking: President unsalted. Very helpful that they have the 25g mark lines on the wrapping paper, so no need to weigh it. I always have 2 sticks in the fridge, and replace as I go. Wonderful in ash potatoes, cakes and everything else.

For spreading on the kids’ toast and to grease pans: Lurpak spreadable, slightly salted

For spreading on fresh bread and baguette: nothing beats Brittany butter with sea salt flakes. It’s the stuff of gods.

Lurpak spreadable, everytime!

President With Crystals. I'd marry for that butter.

*mash potatoes. I don’t fancy ash potatoes

Lurpak. I think it's about 3 quid. But actually I only really buy the spreadable for toast/sandwiches now, for cooking and baking I just buy sainsburys own brand blocks.

I did some research into different butters and which ones were best environmentally, animal welfare and human health wise. Of the major brands Kerrygold came first (grass fed beef) and then Country Life. So that's what I do! I love Kerrygold.
Asda own brand was lowest on the list FYI.

I love the Sainsbury's Taste the Difference with sea salt. That's my butter of choice for spreading on toast. But for general everyday cooking and baking, Golden Cow or Dromona. Golden Cow is incredibly solid and hard to spread which is crap for spreading on bread but great for making pastry or shortbread.

Sorry OP but I'm gonna derail this slightly:

Can anyone recommend a uk made brand of lactic butter, preferably one with a spreadable variant

President salted block butter or Wykes salted block butter
Just looking at butter on tesco online and I see that Tesco Finest West Country Butter & Sea Salt 250G says underneath it "Finest Butter with Sea Salt Crystals
Made in the West Country with British milk. Made by Wyke Farms in Somerset"
Will give it a try £1.85

Lurpak used to be good but now all I can taste is a greasy, oily film on it and a plastic after taste.

Or maybe it always tasted like that and I've developed my tastes!

Now it's President or Kerrygold for me. Can occasionally get some butter from a local farm (north Scotland) which is the BEST though!

Tesco used to do an Isle of Man with sea salt. Or a Beurre D’Isgny

I now have to make a special trip to Sainsbury’s.

I second Abernethy butter, the seaweed one is my favourite, but all are amazing.

But normally, Kerrygold. Or whatever own brand with sea salt crystals.

President without salt
Lurpak without salt
Aldi Cornish butter with sea salt
Aldi spreadable without salt that is just like Lurpak spreadable

Goat butter is surprisingly nice and creamy has a light flavour

President £2 for 250g

Proper butter only here, any of those yellow fats are so bad for your heart, don't fall for the marketing it's rubbish.

Either Kerrygold or Aldi's own unsalted

@Tartyflette

Lescure French butter is indeed divine, but around £2.60! 😳 In France I love unpasteurised , unsalted butter when i can get it. It's made from ripened, unpasteurised milk and has a wonderful tangy taste. Isigny Ste-Mère is nice too.

Yes, yes to Isigny Ste Mère unsalted butter! I would love to try their unpasteurised version but I actually really dislike salted butter.

Real Irish butter only so has to be Kerrygold! Love getting it back home in Dublin when ye can get the proper pound block! I also bring back here tubs of dairy gold!

I make a butter and oil spread for consumption and one with more oil as a butter/marg substitute for baking - as per Delia's recommendation for the baking.

Any actual butter, as long as it’s salted. The spreadables can get in the sea for the most part, as they all contain oil. I think President do one with no oil, so that one can avoid a dunking.

I have to buy vitality for my eldest, as she can’t have milk. She appreciates she’s badly done to, but prefers the shit spread to the pain of IBS.

I keep ending up buying President slightly salted block butter because the salted versions are too salty for us & hardly anyone local seems to sell slightly salted butter any more.
It's usually £2 for 250g.

President spreadable. It's not actually as spreadable as some, but much more spreadable than normal butter straight from the fridge. The advantage is that it doesn't contain water or vegetable fats and tastes lovely.

I'm so surprised so many people like lurpak, I hate it! It's not nearly salty enough.