Kerrygold failed to impress our judges, scoring just three out of 10.
However, it's important to note this is comparing *spreadable* butter, not regular butter. I'd be more interested in a comparison between different types & brands of normal butter.
I mean, butter is just churned cream. You can't really fuck that up. You could add more water to the mix, but that would create other issues with consistency, and buttery-ness.
Plus I think to be called butter it needs to have a certain amount of butterfat, I don't know what it is and I can't be arsed to open wiki to find out.
Yeah but this article is about spreadable butter, not normal decent god-fearing butter. So it's already been fucked up by blending in vegetable oil along with whatever stabilsers and other shit they have to use to allow you to mix vegetable oil and butter in the first place.
I buy Aldi spreadable butter, as well as their blocks of Welsh butter and pay about £3.50 for one of each... and can't fault either one of them. If I bought the same stuff "branded" in any of the larger supermarkets, I'd be paying almost double that.
Likewise, I'm rather fond of the HP Fruity sauce... £2.50 a bottle or more... Supermarket branded variety... tastes the same, £1.10 a bottle.
I've switched from branded stuff to Aldi own brands a lot since the COL crisis a few years ago, that is still ongoing.... Not noticed a single drop in quality. But even Aldi have hiked their prices a lot. Frozen beer battered haddock used to be £3.19, is now £4.79, fresh quality sausages used to be £1.79 (6 pack, not the paste filled 8 packs) for caramelised onion/pork/apple/lincolnshire/cumberland and are now £2.49.
My avg food bill for 2, each month used to be £200-220, including food, drink and cleaning supplies... it's now £300-320, whilst cutting back on a lot of the luxury items, opting for cheaper things in some places or reducing the number of times we buy them... so steak one every 8 weeks instead of once a month. No fish and chips at home, only as a treat if we go out for a meal (not to a chippy as they're all bad here).
When the price topped £9 at the height of the cost of living crisis, it became the centre of a media frenzy, with outraged shoppers sharing their disbelief and supermarkets putting security tags on tubs.
16 Comments
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 347d
I'd have believed this if I never tried Kerry Gold.
Kerry Gold is way better than every other brand I've tried.
MouldyCat@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 346d
Their judges disagreed with you:
However, it's important to note this is comparing *spreadable* butter, not regular butter. I'd be more interested in a comparison between different types & brands of normal butter.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 346d
I mean... Yeah. If you are looking at margerines and compare it to real butter, the real butter isn't going to be the same.
But having had to live with margerine most of my life, real god damn butter is so, so much better. lol
9point6@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
I wish Aldi Nordpak compared to Lurpak, but it doesn't come close in terms of spreadability and creaminess.
hello_cruel_world@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
I mean, butter is just churned cream. You can't really fuck that up. You could add more water to the mix, but that would create other issues with consistency, and buttery-ness.
Plus I think to be called butter it needs to have a certain amount of butterfat, I don't know what it is and I can't be arsed to open wiki to find out.
So I'm inclined to believe that to be the case
Cyber@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 347d
81%
(you can sleep easy now)
hello_cruel_world@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Thank you my sweet Prince, my slumber shall now be assured thanks to your steadfast research!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Cultured vs uncultured makes all the difference
MouldyCat@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 346d
Yeah but this article is about spreadable butter, not normal decent god-fearing butter. So it's already been fucked up by blending in vegetable oil along with whatever stabilsers and other shit they have to use to allow you to mix vegetable oil and butter in the first place.
Anomnomnomaly@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 345d
I buy Aldi spreadable butter, as well as their blocks of Welsh butter and pay about £3.50 for one of each... and can't fault either one of them. If I bought the same stuff "branded" in any of the larger supermarkets, I'd be paying almost double that.
Likewise, I'm rather fond of the HP Fruity sauce... £2.50 a bottle or more... Supermarket branded variety... tastes the same, £1.10 a bottle.
I've switched from branded stuff to Aldi own brands a lot since the COL crisis a few years ago, that is still ongoing.... Not noticed a single drop in quality. But even Aldi have hiked their prices a lot. Frozen beer battered haddock used to be £3.19, is now £4.79, fresh quality sausages used to be £1.79 (6 pack, not the paste filled 8 packs) for caramelised onion/pork/apple/lincolnshire/cumberland and are now £2.49.
My avg food bill for 2, each month used to be £200-220, including food, drink and cleaning supplies... it's now £300-320, whilst cutting back on a lot of the luxury items, opting for cheaper things in some places or reducing the number of times we buy them... so steak one every 8 weeks instead of once a month. No fish and chips at home, only as a treat if we go out for a meal (not to a chippy as they're all bad here).
blackn1ght@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 347d
Just use real butter.
MouldyCat@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 346d
especially at this time of year, when you can just leave it out of the fridge and it'll be perfectly spreadable.
Cyber@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 347d
What media frenzy? (Ahh, the bliss of ignorance)
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 328d
Personally never noticed a difference I switched to own brand a long time ago it's cheaper
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 347d
Lurpak is the best by quite a stretch.
ReCursing@feddit.uk · -1 pts · 347d
Yes