Would you like salt with your butter, sir?

[mark111757 Profile]

Overall, is président or kerrygold that much better taste wise?? Kerrygold is touted here in the states as the second coming of butter. Président is tougher to find.

Is there a difference between product of wherever land AND made in wherever land. Notice that a lot with kerrygold. Product of Ireland but is it made there two???

[cherrytree Profile]

‘Fresh as a buttercup, and golden as the sun, New Zealand, New Zealand gives health to everyone’. A jingle advertising Anchor butter ,probably from the 1950s.
I used to love New Zealand Anchor butter. It doesn’t taste the same now and I was quite annoyed that Anchor changed without any notification.

[Renee Profile]

Anchor is made in the UK now, cherrytree, hence the change in taste. It used to be my favourite too many years ago.

https://www.anchorbutter.co.uk/

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Going back to naturally occurring salt in butter, most body fluids are around the same salinity as sea water, 0.9% w/v so you’d expect some to creep into milk

Looking it up, it seems there’s about 44mg Sodium per 100ml milk, so some will get into the butter but I’d expect most to be left in the buttermilk with the water

I prefer unsalted for general use, though I quite like the very salty stuff with salt crystals for a change. I think I was put off regular salted butter by Anchor butter, which I really disliked

[Lusciouslush Profile]

Welsh butter every time - I can eat it straight off the knife!

I know those different degrees of saltiness sold on Swansea market Meganthemog!

[dennispc Profile]

We have salted butter, Waitrose Essential 500g for £3.10. Kept in the cupboard within easy reach of OH when making a sandwich. It's rare for me to have butter apart from mash.

Posted this on the other side so some of you will have seen it.

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[Renee Profile]

Waitrose Essential foods are usually excellent Petronius. What a lovely butter dish!

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

That's a good price, Dennis.
The advantage of a butter dish, over a bought tub of butter, is you can cut your slice of butter. It's a bit cleaner.

I scoop butter out from the middle, working my way out to the sides, and often get toast crumbs in my tub.
As Tony hates butter, it's not an issue for anyone else.

[dennispc Profile]

It's a job getting folk to realise that Waitrose, if you choose wisely, isn't expensive - much is cheaper than our local Co-op. It's our nearest convenience store!

Neither of us can remember how we lost the lid! It's part of a full dinner service made by Apilco called Elysian Gardens and apparently quite collectable. One of the mugs, which I use for mixing cornflour was advertised on ebay for $99!

[Sakkarin Profile]

Ha! The opposite of my situation - I broke the main body of my glass butter dish (I posted about the one I bought ages ago), so now I use the shallow lid to hold my butter!

Having said that, I'm not sure whether the lid was the deep bit or the shallow bit, it may have been the lid I broke.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

If you have the classic Luminarc butter dish, like this
https://www.luminarc.com/us/designers-collections/butter-dish/

It is I believe cleverly designed to be used either way up which I like

I use it with the butter in the shallow piece, and then the deep piece is used as a cloche

But if you google for an image, you find a lot each way up.

[Renee Profile]

It's a job getting folk to realise that Waitrose, if you choose wisely, isn't expensive - much is cheaper than our local Co-op. It's our nearest convenience store!

Neither of us can remember how we lost the lid! It's part of a full dinner service made by Apilco called Elysian Gardens and apparently quite collectable. One of the mugs, which I use for mixing cornflour was advertised on ebay for $99!

I've found your lid Petronius!

https://www.replacements.com/webquote/a ... nPP13rUIc3

[jeral Profile]

It never occurred to me but Etsy.com are good for collectibles and they have an Elysian Gardens butter dish complete for £67.64+P&P:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/6872394 ... ch_click=1

It wouldn't come with your own memories that you have of yours though.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Is it just me that finds Etsy a bit strange? I thought it was meant to be all sole trader and small firms, mainly makers and carefully selected bits of vintage but there are sections that seem to have wondered in from the tattler bits of eBay

There are great things on there - in front of me is my wallet which was made to order by a lady in Hove, took less than a week, cost about the same as from a department store, and will last for years

[Renee Profile]

I had a look for reviews about Etsy and found these:

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.etsy.com

[Sakkarin Profile]

$159.95 for the LID ?!?

Deep thud as jaw drops to the floor...

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

I'm thinking Etsy is like some art fairs.
You have traditional glass makers selling beautiful works and bowls for £75 for example on one stand. Who sell nothing.
Opposite, people who buy in Chinese tat, with hoards of people queuing to buy at £60.

Of course, we'd rather buy the hand crafted pieces, but it still surprises me how people find more value in that £15 cheaper.

I buy (and sell a bit) on Ebay.
It's a fantastic resource, for example, I broke a precious piece that meant a lot to me.
I was able to look on Ebay for about 3hrs, 50 pages later. And replace the piece for £15. It's not the very same item of course, but that doesn't matter to me.
Still blown away that I could find it on there.

[Pampy Profile]

Etsy looks like Not On The High Street to me. I've bought twice from NOTHS and been disappointed both times so won't use it again.
https://www.chinasearch.co.uk/ is a website that I've used in the past to add items to my dinner service, and once to replace an item that I'd broken.