I love butter,
It makes me a jolly good feller,
It helps me unwind and
Sometimes it makes me feel a bit greasy
(Edit - with sincere apologies to Tom T. Hall.)
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Butyraceous: there’s a word for the spelling bee
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That’s why one needs to eat a lot of dried fruit during Passover. 
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This is why we are all friends on this forum, despite our occasional flare-ups about tips, living wages, credit card fees, delivery companies, and all that other blather. The truth is, I bet 9/10 of us on the HO forum would’ve loved to go on this butter journey with you. Good work!
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[Applause!]
I’d been posting in the “New items you’ve purchased at the grocery store” thread, but this one is probably better for me to follow up on the salted butters i’ve been trying recently. Kerrygold, President, and Tillamook are my standbys.
Of the four that are new to me, I’ve liked Westgold best. That one, I’m going to have to compare to Kerrygold directly. I really like the flavor of it. It’s grass-fed from New Zealand.
Vermont Creamery Cultured has the most distinctive flavor as might be expected of a cultured butter. I don’t think I like that one as well as I do President, but again, I need to do a direct comparison.
Straus Lightly Salted did better for me on baked potato than on plain bread, probably because of the added salt i used on the potato. It’s good butter.
Vital Farms says it’s 90% grass-fed. I’ve liked all the new ones I’ve tried. Funny how it goes, I liked this one better on bread and less so on baked potato than Straus.
I still have Truly Grass Fed left to try from this round of purchases. I’ll be freezing some portions of these because, hard as it is to believe, I think i might get burned out on butter.
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i had been getting presidents, but market basket (new england) recently stopped carrying it, so i’ve been getting kerrygold. and i do like the vermont cultured. but, the one place i’ve been able to. find it is charging $7/8 ounces, so i’m more than ok with the kerrygold.
my favorite, though is trader joe’s, ifrench cultured, salted. but, i was there last week and it wasn’t in the diary case and i didn’t see a slot for it, so it may be gone. i hope not for too long. happened a couple of years ago, but eventually it returned.
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I was surprised to find that Walmart here carries Westgold ($4.64/8 oz.) and Vermont Creamery Cultured ($4.24/8 oz.). Straus was on sale at Sprouts for $5.29/8 oz., only about 50 cents off their regular price. Sprouts was also where I got the Vital Farms, $3.99/8 oz., a dollar off the usual price. Truly Grass Fed came from my local Kroger affiliate. They only had it in the 16 oz. size at $11.99. That’s where I also get President. Just about everybody carries Kerrygold these days.
I may be able to find six or seven more options that i haven’t tried beyond the usual supermarket butter here. No Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods anywhere near me. I saw some goat butter at Natural Grocers in the past. I may throw that into the mix if they still have it.
I think Hokkaido has some good butter brands – not quite up to snuff with Belgium/France IME, but good enough.
Then, there’s an entire range of spreads throughout Japan that are local ingredient + butter. I’m particularly taken to Okayama prefecture’s white peach & Nagasaki prefecture’s sweet potato varieties.
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Just ‘discovered’ this guy in Paris, makes butter with creme fraiche…
For baking I use Challenge Unsalted; for all else my favorite now is Costco’s house brand Kirkland New Zealand grass fed salted. I used to buy TJ’s French Cultured from Brittany but switched to Costco’s … I like it better and cost is less.
go to of choice…
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One independent grocery near me carries this. I love it.
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No, I really butt roll that butter. Gives it the Amish funk for which Amish rolled butter is famous.
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More on butters.
Truly Grass-Fed has been the grassiest of those I’ve tried. That grassiness doesn’t strike quite the right note for me but might for other people. It’s good, just not one of my favorites.
I did find what is now my favorite, Nancy’s Organic Butter. It’s cultured and sea salted. The culturing is pretty mild. This one is sort of like having the best of both worlds, cultured and sweet cream. I have three cultured butters at the moment, and comparing the three, I like this one best then President then Vermont Creamery.
Another I’ve tried is Nellie’s Free Range Grass-Fed Butter. Nothing particularly stood out about it.
I also tried Meyenberg Goat Milk Butter. Goatiness is there, especially if the butter is tasted on its own. It’s not what I would call strong goat flavor. It faded even just eating it on toast, but it’s still there. Not exactly my cup of tea. I liked it well enough that I’ll finish it, but I’m not likely to buy it again.
Searching the web and reading about butters, I learned that Westgold (another favorite I found) and Costco’s Kirkland Grass-Fed Butter are both produced by Westland Milk Products in New Zealand. I wonder if they’re the same thing. I don’t have a Costco in my area, so I can’t compare them.
