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Who the hell needs to pay anyone to shill butter? Butter is widely known to be absolutely delicious, to the point that people go out of their way to tell us to eat less butter for the sake of our health. I can't think of anything which needs promotion less than butter does.

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> Who the hell needs to pay anyone to shill butter?

Any company that makes butter as good as the below [1], and has an idea that some people haven’t heard of it.

It’s silly expensive. It’s so great.

https://www.lewisroadcreamery.com/collections/grass-fed-butt...

I'll have to see if I can find it at a store. I'm always down to improve my butter experience. I will say that I was very let down by Kerrygold. It's noticeably better if you are having just plain buttered toast, but otherwise I can't taste any difference between it and the normal butter one sees at the store.

Lewis Road have some truly great products - the salted butter is obviously different due to the visible salt crystals.

It's true of a lot of things that, if you taste them in isolation, there's a noticeable difference. But if you're using them as just a supporting element or mixed in with a lot of other flavors, they may not be worth 2x the price.

Found that to be the case with any butter really, when you cook with it or do anything that dilutes it, the flavor beyond "lipids" ends up lost quickly amongst the other flavors. We buy cheaper butter for stuff like frying eggs or to add to recipes that call for it and buy a smaller amount of really good stuff to put on (cooked) bread/steak/potatoes or other times where the flavor difference feels noticeable (also usually do unsalted for the normal, and salted for the high-grade). Note I said cheaper not cheap, I'd say like wine you shouldn't cook with butter you'd refuse on its own.

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