Comments on: The big butter blowout: a taste test http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/ Empowering you to make the world better. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:52:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Darcy Prince http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/comment-page-1/#comment-3308 Darcy Prince Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:32:10 +0000 http://www.touchwoodproject.com/?p=1333#comment-3308 Hey, reading this article again, I wonder what time of year it was that you had and didn't like the local butter. Cows eat different stuff in summer and winter and their butter/milk can taste different in different seasons. Sometimes you can almost taste the grass in the summer butter. I don't mind it, but I remember overhearing someone complaining (to the farmer! the nerve!) about it at our farmer's market. Just a thought. Mmmm, butter! Hey, reading this article again, I wonder what time of year it was that you had and didn’t like the local butter. Cows eat different stuff in summer and winter and their butter/milk can taste different in different seasons. Sometimes you can almost taste the grass in the summer butter. I don’t mind it, but I remember overhearing someone complaining (to the farmer! the nerve!) about it at our farmer’s market. Just a thought. Mmmm, butter!

]]> By: ACarLessFamily http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/comment-page-1/#comment-3279 ACarLessFamily Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:32:51 +0000 http://www.touchwoodproject.com/?p=1333#comment-3279 Laura Kidd, you have to remember that butter is also manufactured, My husband once worked (briefly, he had to leave after seeing how it was really done) on a dairy with processing plant and butter doesn't come straight from the udder you know ;) Also please remember that a normal "commercial" butter will have gone (as milk) through pipes where highly corrosive chemicals are pumped (and often not cleaned properly) for "hygiene". Again,,,this is a first hand experience not a vegan perspective. But while we are on the subject I think pressed oil is still more palatable than another animals lactation (and the yummy things like mastitis and infect that come with it). Ok, totally not a dairy anti/for post I know, but I thought I'd set the record straight. Laura Kidd, you have to remember that butter is also manufactured, My husband once worked (briefly, he had to leave after seeing how it was really done) on a dairy with processing plant and butter doesn’t come straight from the udder you know ;)
Also please remember that a normal “commercial” butter will have gone (as milk) through pipes where highly corrosive chemicals are pumped (and often not cleaned properly) for “hygiene”. Again,,,this is a first hand experience not a vegan perspective.
But while we are on the subject I think pressed oil is still more palatable than another animals lactation (and the yummy things like mastitis and infect that come with it).
Ok, totally not a dairy anti/for post I know, but I thought I’d set the record straight.

]]> By: AmuseBoucheUK http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/comment-page-1/#comment-3126 AmuseBoucheUK Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:10:36 +0000 http://www.touchwoodproject.com/?p=1333#comment-3126 Hi I only ever use unsalted butter these days - you're right that most of them are far too salty - better to have a jar of salt flakes to hand - or even try smoked salt if the food you are eating warrants it! Also nicer to knock up a batch of cokkies or cakes etc using unsalted - and pan frying with unsalted gives a better taste! Now following you on twitter! Hi

I only ever use unsalted butter these days – you’re right that most of them are far too salty – better to have a jar of salt flakes to hand – or even try smoked salt if the food you are eating warrants it! Also nicer to knock up a batch of cokkies or cakes etc using unsalted – and pan frying with unsalted gives a better taste! Now following you on twitter!

]]> By: Laura Kidd http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/comment-page-1/#comment-3016 Laura Kidd Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:34:39 +0000 http://www.touchwoodproject.com/?p=1333#comment-3016 Wow, I like your style! :))) I am a big butter fan too, if you're going to eat butter, you need to eat the real stuff, not some manufactured vegetable product (understood that vegans don't have that choice). Here in France we usually buy butter (and cream) from our local cheese producer, which is always yummy. I think if you are going to do another test, you need to choose all unsalted versions to make it fair. There is also the sea salt butters, which are even more naughty! I usually have these on bread with honey, to give that bitter sweet yumminess :))) xx Wow, I like your style! :) ))
I am a big butter fan too, if you’re going to eat butter, you need to eat the real stuff, not some manufactured vegetable product (understood that vegans don’t have that choice).
Here in France we usually buy butter (and cream) from our local cheese producer, which is always yummy.
I think if you are going to do another test, you need to choose all unsalted versions to make it fair.
There is also the sea salt butters, which are even more naughty! I usually have these on bread with honey, to give that bitter sweet yumminess :) ))
xx

]]> By: rachel http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/comment-page-1/#comment-3006 rachel Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:46:05 +0000 http://www.touchwoodproject.com/?p=1333#comment-3006 I'll definitely look out for a vegan butter alternative at our local alternative food shop, Shearer's (Sam, that's where the goat's butter is from) since that would be fun. People always think we're vegan anyway! I’ll definitely look out for a vegan butter alternative at our local alternative food shop, Shearer’s (Sam, that’s where the goat’s butter is from) since that would be fun. People always think we’re vegan anyway!

]]> By: ACarLessFamily http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/comment-page-1/#comment-3001 ACarLessFamily Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:34:50 +0000 http://www.touchwoodproject.com/?p=1333#comment-3001 SO funny that the two top ones were good choices! I remember liking goats butter and unpastuized sounds great. As a vegan we stick to pure (sunflower) or vitalite but if you have to have animal products I think its better to pay for local and natural reared products. Butter may seem luxurious (ok...maybe not the tesco value :P ) but it can still come from factory farmed, unhealthy, animals who pass this all through the milk to you. Let me know if you taste test anything vegan..I'll be first in line :) SO funny that the two top ones were good choices!
I remember liking goats butter and unpastuized sounds great.
As a vegan we stick to pure (sunflower) or vitalite but if you have to have animal products I think its better to pay for local and natural reared products.

Butter may seem luxurious (ok…maybe not the tesco value :P ) but it can still come from factory farmed, unhealthy, animals who pass this all through the milk to you.

Let me know if you taste test anything vegan..I’ll be first in line :)

]]> By: Tracey Todhunter http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/comment-page-1/#comment-3000 Tracey Todhunter Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:55:09 +0000 http://www.touchwoodproject.com/?p=1333#comment-3000 We're big fans of the Delamere Dairy butter in your photo (produced just up the road from us), a butter taste test sounds like the perfect night in for me! We’re big fans of the Delamere Dairy butter in your photo (produced just up the road from us), a butter taste test sounds like the perfect night in for me!

]]> By: Sam D http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/comment-page-1/#comment-2999 Sam D Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:12:37 +0000 http://www.touchwoodproject.com/?p=1333#comment-2999 Rachel, you are a girl after my own heart :-) But then we already knew that!! I love the Walliwall. Frances introduced me to it when they first started, and if I'm quick I can get it from Arogo's. I confess I've not tried the goat's butter because I was put off goat dairy products as a child: we had goats and we got goat-everything. I'm up for giving it a go though. Where did you get it from? Hope to get out to see you soon. Miss you both loads. Rachel, you are a girl after my own heart :-) But then we already knew that!! I love the Walliwall. Frances introduced me to it when they first started, and if I’m quick I can get it from Arogo’s. I confess I’ve not tried the goat’s butter because I was put off goat dairy products as a child: we had goats and we got goat-everything. I’m up for giving it a go though. Where did you get it from? Hope to get out to see you soon. Miss you both loads.

]]> By: Darcy Prince http://www.touchwoodproject.com/butter-blowout/comment-page-1/#comment-2998 Darcy Prince Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:41:15 +0000 http://www.touchwoodproject.com/?p=1333#comment-2998 Yum, yum, yum! Local Orkney butter, wow, sounds fantastic. And a butter taste test, what a great idea. Get *me* to a creamery! :) Yum, yum, yum! Local Orkney butter, wow, sounds fantastic. And a butter taste test, what a great idea. Get *me* to a creamery! :)

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