To never buy Anchor butter again?

[Alittlegusty]

I feel well and truly duped and am so annoyed.
They were on ‘special offer’ and cheaper than Tesco standard so I bought a few for Christmas baking.

They looked the same size as the other butters..

But I’ve gone to use one and it’s 200 grams instead of 250 grams..

The weight is well hidden on the back.

Scammers!

I’m NEVER buying Anchor butter again!

Yeah I noticed that lurpak had changed to 200g when I was buying butter at the weekend. I nearly bought it thinking it had reduced in price. Really sneaky.

That has made me shudder. St Ivel gold was beyond vile.

And the Costco loo rolls are much worse quality. I happened to have one at the back of the cupboard left over from the last time I bought any (during the pandemic) & they are completely different.

My DM is a fan of Elmlea "cream."

I, OTOH, am not!

I never understand why they sell Elmlea in big supermarkets. Surely it's the kind of thing that you dash out to buy from Spar in desperation on a Sunday evening, when you realise that you forgot to buy some actual (nice-tasting) cream?

Putting it on your regular, planned shopping list is the food equivalent of meticulously always keeping a drawer full of belated birthday cards in stock at home!

PG Tips decaf has rapidly gone from a normal price of around £2 "on offer", £2.50 normally to £3. That's a rise of a third.

I understand all the justifications about cost of living etc but it’s the outright aim to deceive customers, and trick them into buying a product that there is no excuse for.

In my butter photo in the op, the (reduced)
weight is hidden away, hoping to trick the unsuspecting, or those with less than great eyesight.

Charletans!

Home made butter will go off if you don’t dry / drain the water from it several times. If you want the same shelf life as bought in butter (and you should considering cream is more expensive than butter per gram) then the only way to do it is by turning it into ghee.

In my nearest supermarket, the cheapest double cream is 38p per 100ml.

The cheapest butter is 67.6p per 100g.

I've just been to an online calculator that suggests that cream weighs roughly 1 gram per millilitre. Is that online calculator wrong?

The smallest 38p/ml pack of cream is 300ml, which, according to Google, should make roughly 200g of butter (plus 100ml of buttermilk). Which would be about 57.5p per 100 grams of butter with bonus buttermilk. or £1.15 for 200g, saving about 20p for the 200g compared to the cheapest butter. Plus buttermilk is about 14p per 100ml.

It's not a massive saving, but it's also a fun activity - and butter can be frozen in small amounts to be taken out as and when it's needed.

I'm sure if people shopped around they could find cheaper cream.

A quick Google shows Aldi cream at 33p per 100ml, and butter is the same price, so 99p for 200g butter, saving about 36p.

(yes I know how I come across, but honestly I enjoy doing this kind of thing).

If you have a Morrisons near-by they sell 1 litre whipping cream for £1. I make 3 x 250g blocks of butter from that

Rubbish. 1l of whipping cream only produces 300-400g butter. Max.

Its not rubbish...Ive been doing this for some time so results same every time

Last batch 1 parsley and garlic, 1 smoked seasalt 1 plain

Anchor Lighter Spreadable up another 33% in real terms. Previously available on offer in readily available high street stores at £3 per 400g, I can only see £3.96 today. Has fuel for export gone up 33% ? Has milk gone up 33% ? Has labour gone 33% (now, not when NI goes up in two months time) ? Has grass (no, the kind that cows eat) gone up 33% ? ... Didn't think so.

I don’t buy butter very often, so I could be missing something, but why do people like anchor butter?
Ocado british butter is £2 for 250g

Was never a fan of Anchor, but I don't want the other brands to follow suit! Not least because a 200g pack won't fit my butter dish. It's dishonest and sneaky as well.

Impossible:

1 litre of whipping cream, which weighs about 1,000 grams is about 30-36 percent fat. Total fat = 300 - 360 grams

Salted butter is about 80% fat. 750 grams of butter = 600 grams.

Your homemade butter must be milky!

Spot on

I know this is about butter but how many people discovered over Christmas what utter deceit they’ve practised on Terrys chocolate orange/mint. Those hidden indentations on either side of each segment. I found out roundabout October when I randomly bought a mint one, and was outraged and boycotted them at Christmas, although someone still bought them for my kids.