HUFFINGTON
08.18.13
TASTE
TEST
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E SPEND a lot of time
thinking about butter. Not only because
it is delicious, but also
because we cook with it a lot. Everyone here has a favorite brand for
different tasks — the butter they
use on bread, the butter they bake
with, the butter they cook with. We
got to wondering if our brand allegiance was based on fact or gut feeling. Could we really taste the difference between a high-end butter and
the regular supermarket stuff?
We tasted four butters, all available in our local grocery store, of
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KERRYGOLD
$3.99
PLUGRA SALTED
$3.89
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varying price points and supposed
qualities completely blind, each
spread on the same plain, water table cracker. It turns out our tasters
did tend to prefer a more expensive
butter over the cheaper ones, but
our overall favorite in this test was
only the second most expensive.
We also agreed the winning
butter isn’t one we’d want to cook
with (we’d rather enjoy on bread,
radishes, etc.), because its texture was what won us over. Check
out how the butters fared, and let
us know what your go-to
butter is!
TAP ON EACH
BUTTER FOR
THE TASTERS’
VERDICTS
As always,
this taste
test was
in no way
influenced
or sponsored by
the brands
included.
ORGANIC VALLEY PASTURE BUTTER
$4.99
LAND O LAKES
$3.24