Lurpak v I can't believe it's not butter

[kabbes]

It's what you get used to though. Once you have been suckered in to being a margarine eater, butter tastes weird. Besides, the convenience issue is a pretty major one. Butter drives me fucking mental with its inability to spread.

 

[Biddlybee]

with its inability to spread.

Butter dish

 

[Orang Utan]

It's what you get used to though. Once you have been suckered in to being a margarine eater, butter tastes weird. Besides, the convenience issue is a pretty major one. Butter drives me fucking mental with its inability to spread.

i grew up on marge, but now embrace the butter. salted butter on wholemeal toast is one of the most glorious tastes ever. flora on toast ain't.

 

[Orang Utan]

Butter dish

or just good spreading technique

 

[tarannau]

Just get a good butter dish and leave it out. A block rarely last long enough to worry about imo.

Even when it's at the hottest part of the year there's no way I'm switching to marge for cooking - it just tastes so much worse. You stir a knob of fucking flora into your Risotto at the end and taste the difference. In those times it's unsalted butter in fridge and one of those slightly inferior spreadable butter things for the other half.

 

[Biddlybee]

or just good spreading technique

True... not so bad on toast - but for a sarnie I like it room temp

 

[fogbat]

or just good spreading technique

This is helpful on the anal sex side, too.

 

[5t3IIa]

I said: MARGE IS JUST YELLOW PETROL

 

[kabbes]

Just get a good butter dish and leave it out. A block rarely last long enough to worry about imo.

Even when it's at the hottest part of the year there's no way I'm switching to marge for cooking - it just tastes so much worse. You stir a knob of fucking flora into your Risotto at the end and taste the difference. In those times it's unsalted butter in fridge and one of those slightly inferior spreadable butter things for the other half.

Ah, as I already said, I do use butter for cooking (except pastry). It's because it doesn't have to be spreadable. I'd never melt Flora over potatoes, for example.

 

[kabbes]

I said: MARGE IS JUST YELLOW PETROL

Lots of things can be dismissed like that. Butter is just rancid milk, which is just juice squeezed from a fucking cow.

 

[5t3IIa]

Lots of things can be dismissed like that. Butter is just rancid milk, which is just juice squeezed from a fucking cow.

That's food though. Petrol is very old trees.

 

[kabbes]

Salt is nubbut a chemical!

 

[berniedicters]

President Unsalted is the best commonly available.

IMO of course

I was going to say this, too.

but i fear that would not be salty enough for LQ

Point LQ in the direction of some of the Welsh butters, if it's salty they're after. I think Welsh butter usually gets salted to 3% rather than the more traditional English 2%.

For true ultra-saltiness, get hold of Breton butter. This, for example, at 5% salt.

ETA: oh, and margarines disgust me. I laugh particularly heartily at the foolishness that had everyone rushing from eating butter - a substance that we've been eating for thousands of years, and whose health risks were at least well-known - to margarine, a completely manufactured substance laden with trans-fats, an artificial chemical which turns out to be even worse for our cardiovascular health than the saturated fats in butter.

I know most margarines now make a point of not having any trans-fats, but I think a lot of us have rather lost the faith...

Butter every time. In moderation.

 

[paolo]

I think one of the spreadable butter manufacturers should do one called "I can't believe it's not margarine"

 

[berniedicters]

I think one of the spreadable butter manufacturers should do one called "I can't believe it's not margarine"

They probably figure that putting "margarine" on a butter product's the kiss of death for it

 

[sojourner]

I don't reckon butter's that unhealty fwiw, or at least the French paradox would seem to mitigate against that.

Over the years many of the health claims about the superiority of margarine have been demolished. Those same 'healthy' margarines of the past contained huge amounts of transfats, now known to be fucking unhealthy. I'm fairly certain modern margarines won't turn out to be that much better in the fullness of time. It's all a load of hokey cokey shit marketing shit if you ask me - margarines can't compete on tastes so they use dubious health claims as a differentiator.

Butter's a time tested product, simple in its provenance, and tastes much better than the alternatives (imo).

Just get a good butter dish and leave it out. A block rarely last long enough to worry about imo.

^ this, all of this

I just use Tesco value salted butter. Spreads all the time no problem, because it's in a butter dish on the work surface. Tastes good.

Daughter hates salted butter, so I have to buy her the unsalted spreadable shit - but I do get the Lurpak version of that

Lurpak was all we ever had in the house when I was a kid. When I got older, they bought margarine, and it was fucking disgusting. Sinks into toast, leaving it rubbery, tastes of bland grease

 

[paolo]

They probably figure that putting "margarine" on a butter product's the kiss of death for it

OK.

Instead then:

"I can't believe it's not 'I can't believe it's not butter' "

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I don't reckon butter's that unhealty fwiw, or at least the French paradox would seem to mitigate against that.

Over the years many of the health claims about the superiority of margarine have been demolished. Those same 'healthy' margarines of the past contained huge amounts of transfats, now known to be fucking unhealthy. I'm fairly certain modern margarines won't turn out to be that much better in the fullness of time. It's all a load of hokey cokey shit marketing shit if you ask me - margarines can't compete on tastes so they use dubious health claims as a differentiator.

Butter's a time tested product, simple in its provenance, and tastes much better than the alternatives (imo).

I tend to go for the natural approach.

Why eat a tub full of artificial chemicals when you can have butter, which is just churned milk, with maybe a bit of salt added?

Why drink something that contains chemical sweeteners, when you can just have the regular version, which has sugar?

 

[cesare]

I like unsalted block butter, but because I don't use much it tends to go a bit orrible so I've taken to buying salted instead. I wish they did smaller packets of butter. Well, I know they do but those tend to be the pricey ones.

I also use anchor spreadable, and sometimes lurpak spreadable - but that's not really butter, it's butter and oil combined isn't it?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Isn't marge made of yellow petrol?

I said: MARGE IS JUST YELLOW PETROL

I heard you 5t3IIa, but you're competing for attention with OU and fogbat talking about anal sex.

How did the thread jump from butter v marge to anal sex? The joys of Urban.

 

[paolo]

Just have some salt, and none of that Sodium Chloride chemical.

 

[berniedicters]

I like unsalted block butter, but because I don't use much it tends to go a bit orrible so I've taken to buying salted instead. I wish they did smaller packets of butter. Well, I know they do but those tend to be the pricey ones.

I also use anchor spreadable, and sometimes lurpak spreadable - but that's not really butter, it's butter and oil combined isn't it?

Cut the block in half and stick the other half in the freezer? I find butter freezes very well.

 

[cesare]

Cut the block in half and stick the other half in the freezer? I find butter freezes very well.

I hadn't thought of that

 

[berniedicters]

I hadn't thought of that

I'm on fire today

 

[geminisnake]

But Lurpak is rubbish butter, the only oen that LQ complains about not being salty enough.

<shrugs> it's alright to me.

The lack of salt is good imo

 

[Rollem]

3 fucking pages!

 

[Jazzz]

Is this thread some sort of a joke? It's a mismatch, the referee would stop the fight after the first punch

unsalted lurpak, mmmmmm, on soft fluffy bread... there are few greater pleasure IMHO.

 

[berniedicters]

Is this thread some sort of a joke? It's a mismatch, the referee would stop the fight after the first punch

unsalted lurpak, mmmmmm, on soft fluffy bread... there are few greater pleasure IMHO.

Few, indeed, but one slightly greater one is unsalted butter (not necessarily Lurpak) on freshly-baked soft fluffy bread

 

[mentalchik]

Hardly ever buy butter..


that's all !

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Hey everyone - My name is Relahni.

Listen up - which is the best - Lurpak or I can't believe it's not butter.

Get focused and choose.

This may be the wrongest you have ever been.