Anchor v Lurpak 😩

[KangarooKenny]

Forgive me for I have sinned, I bought Anchor spreadable because it was cheaper. Now my penance is that I have to eat it 😩

I have President spreadable in the fridge and then 2 butter dishes one with Kerrygold or president ( for gf daughter ) and one with Tesco finest with sea salt crystals for me ( salt craving ) .

@Cookerhood I have a Le Creiset butter dish that has survived the cats so far, it's pretty heavy (and also well insulated so good at keeping the butter at a sensible temperature.

I've been buying flora light. It's grim, but I've lost 2.5 stone since July, I think mainly in unconsumed lurpak

Why would you buy the soft stuff, which has oil in it?

Ah, but President Spreadable contains cream, not oil.

And isn’t actually spreadable at all, straight from the fridge

I hate the smell of Anchor butter. I know Lurpak is expensive, but delicious.

However, I now live in Ireland where dairy products are honestly far superior to British ones and I'm very happy with Dunnes Stores own brand, which I like as it is slightly spreadable straight from the fridge.

If I'm feeling flush, Kerrygold is the absolute best.

Country Life is best !! Interesting about block butter though. I don't buy it other than for cooking as I didn't think you could leave it out and it's too hard in the fridge. I'll be trying it now.

If you can afford Lurpak in these times of austerity then you've got too much brass!

Utterly Butterly on toast over here...

Lurpak is grim, it tastes like margerine.

Anchor spreadable or block butter from the local organic dairy.

Dh prefers Anchor and I prefer Lurpak so

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So we have both in the fridge atm. The lurpack was on offer so bought myself some. The unsalted which I prefer though I also like to buy the one which is softer spreading. Anchor do one as well but haven't seen it since covid.

This amuses me because I had have phases with both! 😄currently in a Lurpak phase. Bought the light one because it was on offer - thought it was a bad idea at first but it actually has a nice sweetness to it!

No help but there is really no way around it. Just eat it 😉

I’m a President fan but now make my own, I cannot believe how easy it is.
I use extra thick double cream and Maldon sea salt.
In my food processor I pop in the plastic blade and blend for around 5 minutes.
Rinse in a colander then roll in grease proof paper to get the buttermilk out.
Done!
Half in the butter dish and half in the freezer.

Is this the aspirational lurpak thing again? 😄

We keep it in a small clippy tub, about enough to hold a quarter or so of the block.

I never understand why people think butter needs to be kept in the fridge? Where did that come from?

Some block butters are softer than others and we get the softer ones in winter when even when kept at room temperature, it's not always spreadable. But in summer we'll get the firmer ones, especially if cheaper, as they stand up to the warm weather better.

Kerrygold, the Aldi salty one in the black packet and Lurpak (block not tub) are slightly softer than many others. Or there's M&S spreadable pure butter in a tub, that's a good alternative.

If you go to Costco, they have Anchor and Lurpak in 500 g packs, Anchor is about £3.30 and Lurpack £3.80, so quite a bit cheaper than the supermarkets.

I must have no taste buds. I swap between lurpak, clover, anchor, norpak and utterly butterly and can’t tell the difference between any of them

President is number one , then lurpak

The reason you might like one but dislike the other is because they're two different kinds of butter. Anchor is a sweet cream butter and Lurpak is a lactic butter.

@KangarooKenny aldi's nordpak is the nearest dupe I've found for lurpak

@Sago1 using this method, how much butter do you get from the cream and how does the value work out?

Tesco double cream, for example, is £2.10 for 600ml. Is this the sort of quantity you use, and how much butter produced?

I am interested in trying this!

What temperature do you keep your houses??

No butter is routinely spreadable outside the fridge unless in high summer in our (admittedly unusually chilly) house. We eat very little 'spreading' butter - mostly use a cheap cream cheese as DS prefers it - and a small pack of spreading butter kept in the 'fridge is the only thing that really lasts long enough and spreads sensibly. Prefer Lurpack but Anchor will do.

I've also wondered about the economics of making your own butter with full price cream.

Unless it's saving you the cost of buying buttermilk (for chicken, or baking) or you can get reduced cream (which is fine for around a week or two after the use by date), I'd expect the financial gain to be small.

Plus isn't it messy as in you end up with a machine that you have to scrape a lot of your butter off?

A big tub of Anchor is £7.25 in Morrisons at the moment.

It’s about ten million times nicer than revolting Lurpak, but I bought own brand normal butter instead.

Supercamp I tend to buy Lidl/Aldi cream, I costed it out in the summer and I reckoned to save 30%.
The butter I make however is really delicious!
It’s also great to watch the process, I don’t save the buttermilk which is a shame.

Save the buttermilk and use it to make soda bread. Really quick & easy loaf (no yeast). Delicious straight from the oven with salty butter.

Everyone saying block butter is cheaper - I went to get some the other day and it was £2.00 for 250g whereas the Tesco British spreadable was £2.30 for 500g - making it almost half the price?!