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: thereâs a word for the spelling bee
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Thatâs 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 wouldâve loved to go on this butter journey with you. Good work!
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[Applause!]
Iâd been posting in the âNew items youâve purchased at the grocery storeâ thread, but this one is probably better for me to follow up on the salted butters iâve been trying recently. Kerrygold, President, and Tillamook are my standbys.
Of the four that are new to me, Iâve liked Westgold best. That one, Iâm going to have to compare to Kerrygold directly. I really like the flavor of it. Itâs grass-fed from New Zealand.
Vermont Creamery Cultured has the most distinctive flavor as might be expected of a cultured butter. I donât 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. Itâs good butter.
Vital Farms says itâs 90% grass-fed. Iâve liked all the new ones Iâve 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. Iâll 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 iâve been getting kerrygold. and i do like the vermont cultured. but, the one place iâve been able to. find it is charging $7/8 ounces, so iâm more than ok with the kerrygold.
my favorite, though is trader joeâs, ifrench cultured, salted. but, i was there last week and it wasnât in the diary case and i didnât 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. Thatâs 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 havenât tried beyond the usual supermarket butter here. No Trader Joeâs 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 â not quite up to snuff with Belgium/France IME, but good enough.
Then, thereâs an entire range of spreads throughout Japan that are local ingredient + butter. Iâm particularly taken to Okayama prefectureâs white peach & Nagasaki prefectureâs sweet potato varieties.
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Just âdiscoveredâ this guy in Paris, makes butter with creme fraicheâŠ
For baking I use Challenge Unsalted; for all else my favorite now is Costcoâs house brand Kirkland New Zealand grass fed salted. I used to buy TJâs French Cultured from Brittany but switched to Costcoâs ⊠I like it better and cost is less.
go to of choiceâŠ
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One independent grocery near me carries this. I love it.
