Lurpak madness or no?

[Downunderduchess]

I’ve just been updating my grocery app and went to put some butter in my basket. I realised how much it has increased in price. A 400gram tub of Lurpak is $9 AUD now. I think this is where I draw the line. It’s madness.

Me too. It's not very nice - I Can't Believe it's Butter!

Love lurpak. Always have it.

But then it’s horrible and dry

It's not butter, is what I'm saying. It's butter plus something. Butter is much nicer IMO.

Pretty sure all Lurpak is made in Denmark, and yes, shipping to the other side of the world is insane. But then, mineral water is also shipped all over the world as well, which is even worse. And it’s got to be 1,400 kms from Denmark to the UK.

The spreadable stuff is processed from milk, rapeseed oil and water and really isn’t butter, or anything like butter. Australia has a good dairy industry of its own, so importing processed danish butter substitute doesn’t even make sense from a quality perspective.

New Zealand lamb at least has a rationale - the UK lambing season is short (Feb to April pretty much) but being southern hemisphere New Zealands season is at the other end of the year, and also much longer - July to October. So southern hemisphere sourcing helps with year round supply; yes, UK lamb can be frozen but not enough is raised from 2 or 3 months lambing to supply the whole year.

At the risk of sounding snobby, I think that if you grew up on margarine or flora type spreads then lurpak tastes like a step up. But if you grew up using proper butter lurpak is no substitute, and just underlines the belief that it’s really just a processed spread like margarine.

Lurpak is horrible anyway!

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better

My preference is president French butter, I love unsalted, tho, expensive

I do like the taste and have been buying it for years now but I’m not happy about the crazy price increases. I’m going to try the alternatives.

No we don’t have Lidl. I’m going to try the other butters (blocks) available at the supermarket I shop from.

I buy Kerrygold Irish butter in blocks from Woolies in Aus. I couldn’t tell you what it costs tbh but it tastes like real butter and we don’t use lots (I use own brand unsalted for baking).

$8 in Melbs but it’s a big block. I always buy it on offer and cut it in half, one half is out on the kitchen bench in a butter dish the other half in the fridge.

Why is all this European butter being exported to Australia and why are people buying it?

Do you not have cows, grass and a 'buy local' culture there?

Or at least get it from New Zealand if Australia is too hot and dry for dairy farming?

Lurpak is absolutely shite so yes it's madness to pay that for it.

Just buy butter.

I used to buy kerry gold block butter but it's the most expensive and smaller size which I think is a total rip off. I just buy the cheapest one that going no matter if it's the shops own brand. I've also made my own butter which is nice. I just get a 600ml tub of double cream and put it in my food processor. Makes lovely butter.

Absolutely. It’s as good as the expensive French brands. Posh butter dish and no one will know!🤣

Yeah, why keep butter in the fridge? The answer isn’t to buy a spreadable version, but a butter dish and keep it out of the fridge.

I've always bought Lurpack and would never settle for anything else, but I refuse to pay the prices now. I don't like any other spreadable so buy salted block butter now.

Team Lurpak here. Though I do buy own brand alternatives as it's so expensive and I can't tell enough of a difference between lactic butters to spend the money.

Sweet butters taste weird.