New poll on butter

[Koalamom]

So I have 2 options for grass fed butter:

1. Grass fed supplemented with grain, pasteurized, hormone free, salted with table salt and costs only 3.34 lb!

2. Grass fed, certified org, RAW, unsalted, 7.50 lb.

I can't decide which I should buy. Would you ever pay 7.50 for raw butter? That sounds like a ton to me. What would you do?

Thanks for responding!

[enchantinglysimple]

Hey there! Well I was looking at butter at whole foods today and saw some butter from Organic Valley that is from pasture fed cows, salted and horomone free and it was a good price about what you said $3.30

Even though raw butter is always better, I think the other choice is the 2nd best choice. $7.50 seems a litle high to me. You would have to be so careful not too use to much...

I deffinetly think the one from the Pasture fed cows it what you should go with, that is what I plan to do when my butter runs out!

Good luck on deciding!

[thriftyqueen]

Though the raw butter would be the best option, we couldn't afford to spend that much on it so I would go with the $3.34 butter. With the economy the way it is right now, I am having to make the best choice for food possible with the income we have.

[Attached Mama]

Originally Posted by bluebirdmama1

So I have 2 options for grass fed butter:

1. Grass fed supplemented with grain, pasteurized, hormone free, salted with table salt and costs only 3.34 lb!

2. Grass fed, certified org, RAW, unsalted, 7.50 lb.

I can't decide which I should buy. Would you ever pay 7.50 for raw butter? That sounds like a ton to me. What would you do?

Thanks for responding!

Yup - I think that is what I pay for raw butter and I think it's a good price since it's the same price as the organic butter I'd otherwise be buying. No Whole Foods near me to drive prices down...

[Ghislaine]

Wouldn't it be nice if everything could be ideal? I went with the $3.34lb butter because I'm thinking that would be the everyday butter. Every once in a while I'd spring for the $7.50lb butter for special occasions or if someone were sick and it seemed like a good idea.

[snowbunny]

I'd buy both and use the pasteurized butter for cooking, and the raw butter for slathering on bread and otherwise eating it raw.

[GouGou]

I recently bought a pound of butter at a local grass-fed farm for a whopping $15 a pound!!! And I wasn't very happy with it, all told. Texture was strange. It developed a strange taste pretty quickly.

I much prefer the cultured Icelandic butter (unsalted "Smjor" in the green label) I get from Whole Foods (Ardmore has it, Devon doesn't) at around $3.49 for .55 lb. I buy a whole bunch and freeze it. This is what I use for putting on bread or cooking eggs. But for recipes that call for large amounts of butter I use regular Horizons or whatever is a good deal that week.

I voted for option 1 because calling something "raw, grass-fed, certified organic" doesn't mean it'll work given individual styles and schedules. It goes bad quicker than we can use it, and it's too expensive to use up quickly.

[TwilightJoy]

Originally Posted by snowbunny

I'd buy both and use the pasteurized butter for cooking, and the raw butter for slathering on bread and otherwise eating it raw.

I agree with this. However, can you find the pasteurized one non-salted? OR salted with sea salt? That would be a better choice than regular salted.

[pampered_mom]

IMO, the $7.50/lb raw butter is a bargain. We pay $9.50/lb for raw butter here (and our raw milk is still fairly cheap to boot at $5/gallon). You have to remember that in order to come up with 1lb of butter that means you'd need to skim the cream off of more than one gallon of milk.

As to off textures and flavors...I've bought butter made from raw milk at a few different farms in the last couple of years and have never had the kind of problems that GouGou mentioned. I have a feeling it was more an issue of that particular farm than all grassfed raw butter in general.

[deditus]

I pay $6.25/lb for raw butter and we eat 1 lb a week. I would pay up to $7.50 but I don't think I could afford more than that.

[Bensmommy]

Originally Posted by snowbunny

I'd buy both and use the pasteurized butter for cooking, and the raw butter for slathering on bread and otherwise eating it raw.

That's what we do; our raw is $8 so you have us by $0.50!

Oh, and my raw butter comes unsalted and I salt it myself with sea salt, split it into small mason jars and freeze. I always keep it on the counter (room temp) in a mason jar and as one goes low, I pull the next one out to thaw. Because I salt it generously and keep it out of the air it never gets "odd" tasting.

[Holiztic]

Looks like I win (or, umm, lose) at $10 a pound for raw, grass fed butter, but boy is it worth it!

[saratc]

I'm also paying $9 to $10 a lb. I mostly use the OV cultured butter, but will add some of the farm butter to my dishes. The flavor is so much better. I used to use it raw on bread, but currently on the GAPs diet, so no bread or grains for us...