To really want a tub of Lurpack

[waheymouth]

All this talk of Lurpack and I have never had it is making me want to try it now.

What one is best normal, spreadable light or unsalted?

It's £4 for 500g tub in Tesco and Sainsburys so going to treat myself

Président spreadable doesn't contain oil but it contains extra cream. M&S softer butter is the only one I've found that hasn't got shite added to it to make it spreadable

President and Lurpak are both lactic butters. I prefer them to sweet cream butters like Anchor and Kerrygold.

I stick to butter. Tesco own brand butter is £1.75p for 250grams. Which makes it 3.50p for 500grams - Lurpak on offer is £4 for 500grams. It's summer - butter is spreadable!

You buy your butter? How… nouveau.

Go to aldi/lidl and get the Cornish/Normandy or whatever butter with salt crystals. A good baguette (lidl bakery aisle wins here) good ham/cheese and some salad thrown in to make you feel better. Eat outside in the sun.

Kerrygold butter is lovely and nicer than Lurpak

Exactly. Why are people paying more for weird adulterated butter in an unnecessary plastic tub then putting it in the fridge when they could just buy normal butter and keep it in a butter dish at room temperature like you're supposed to.

Talk about cutting your nose off to spite your face.

We've just got to the end of a double size block of normal lurpak. It wasn't particularly special but we were in Costco and it worked out quite cheap.

Now we have the salt crystal posh edition from Aldi which was 'only' £1.85 <insert obligatory grovelling apology for being able to spend more than 10 p above the minimum > and I'm quite excited about trying it as we haven't had it before.

As @UrsulaPandress says. The aldi Cornish salted butter in dark blue wrapper is amazing. Soooo salty

Block butter is the way forward. Just stick it in a butter dish and it’s always ready to spread.

Shirgar butter beats everything hands down I will not be taking objections at this point.

Can't believe nobody has referenced The Vicar of Dibley's I can't believe it's not butter sketch yet.......

Kerrygold is by far the superior butter.

Was my fave when I used to eat it.

This is lovely butter - £7 for 200g
fenfarmdairy.co.uk/raw-butter/

At that price, it would want to be! 😆

😂someone buys DH some for his Christmas present every year - something to look forward to as a special treat

I used to love Lurpak but then I stopped buying it and when I tried it again after a few years it just tasted a bit weird and like a PP said, slightly cheesy.

I live in Northern Ireland and I tend to buy Ballyrashane or if i can't get it, Dromona. Our local home bargains sells English butter which I have tried a couple of times and it tastes different to our butter, much more salty.

I can't let a thread about butter pass by without saying that (genuinely) my favourite butter is Dragon Butter.

The name always makes me chuckle though after a Mumsnet thread from a very long time ago.

Me too.

I don't get the obsession with it. Just buy actual butter?

Surely if people want actual butter, they will buy it?

Actual butter is hard?

Actual butter should be kept in a butter dish, not in the fridge. It’s not hard when kept like that.

@IrisVersicolor Only if you keep it in the fridge like a heathen.

It's not if you keep it at room temperature (for most of the year, maybe except winter) but then if you cut it into small cubes in the butter dish it magically softens.

Our normal butter in a dish on the worktop is currently perfect spreading consistency.

I keep my butter in a butter dish, in the fridge

I love cold butter, especially on hot new potatoes, or spread on crackers thick enough to see tooth marks.

Room temperature butter is great if you want to spread it thinly. I don’t.

<drifts into butter based reverie>

@minipie I thought I was the only one who liked thick butter! And I always let my toast cool slightly, so that the butter stays on top instead of melting into it.