[Closed] margarine vs. butter - do you?

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Least relevant post ever? 😆

My Nanna used to call margarine 'Cart grease'...

Nanna is wise.
Unsalted butter here.

Butter, for quality of life reasons. See also: chocolate, wine, salt.

Butter because a) it tastes nice and b) it's a real food.

MisterT - Member
olive oil spread
- so is that natural pressed Olive Oil (yum) - or a hydrogenated emulsification of various liquids (oops)

^^^f me. That's the reward for replying to the posh dinner thread on the margarine thread.

Jesus, never done that before.

I bet there's a post now telling the guy to order Bertolli at la Gavroche.

Butter is better for you than margarine.

Olive oil for the win.

Jesus, never done that before.

I just figured you were trying to butter someone up.

My nana used to try and say 'substitute butter' but she always ended up with 'prostitute butter'.

I have olive oil spread (margarine is no longer sold) but like a bit of salted butter every now and then.

Isn't olive oil spread just margarine with 'Olive Oil' printed on the tub?

e.g.

Bertolli Olive Oil composed of Refined Olive Oils and Virgin Olive Oils, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Whey (from Milk), Vegetable Oils, Buttermilk, Salt (0.8%), Emulsifier: Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Preservative (Potasium Sorbate), Thickener (Sodium Alginate), Citric Acid, Vitamin E, Flavouring, Vitamins A & D, Colour: Carotenes.

Yes its margarine made from olive oil and other stuff - but that isn't a secret

Edit - I see now - margarine is probably a specific term for a product that is no longer made - probably to do with the way the vegetable fats are processed. But it seems a bit of semantics really...

Sorry cf! Had to be done....... 🙂

We go through packs of butter in our house.
I use it for cooking, making pastry and cakes, sauces, spreading etc. Hubby puts toast on his butter. An omelet would be disgusting if cooked in anything other than butter
Although he often has olive spread for sandwich making.

Butter for me on toast, and a drizzle of olive oil on my greens and spuds.
Marge is the devil's food with all those artificially hydrogenated fats.

Both butter and yellowfat here.

Whichever is most suitable, closest, or the only thing left

Kerrygold only in our house, my wife won't have anything else after reading a load of god knows what on the net.

Not for me though at the moment. I'm on an elimination diet to try and identity an intolerance. Most boring diet ever.

Flora buttery in our house, purely for convenience. We like butter, but cba with the in and out of the fridge lark and don't get me started on spreadable, they should call it Will Not Stick To A Knife And Rip Your Bread To Shat butter.

Flora buttery, tastes nearly as good as proper butter too, I had some nice local butter up in Scotland last week, and while it was nicer, it wasn't enough nicer to be worth the faff.

There is a framed certificate hanging in the little loo that says I have a HND in Dairy food production, I don't remember much about it tbh but I never ever touch that Marg stuff, butter for me preferably French.

Butter for me these days.. I've altered my diet over the years to follow fashions or follow guidelines, and more recently for health issues, but I'm fairly convinced now that we are told a lot of misinformation in a bid to honour current trade agreements..

A good chef won't use marge so why would I? And keep butter in the cupboard not the fridge

Of course the best way of transferring butter to mouth is on a crumpet.

I live with a weirdo. He calls crumpets 'pyclets'.

Fool, piklets are flat. Ther mother in law does the same. The fool.

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Butter every time. It's glorious! There's no reason whatsoever to be eating any sort of substitute.

Olive oil should be extra virgin on salads and whatnot or refined and used occasionally for moderate frying. If its not a liquid then it ain't right!

It's fascinating how the general opinion on food subjects like this is slowly heading back in the direction it came. I wonder where we'll be in another 10 years time?

Lard and dripping.

Chamois cream

Cheap gits

When I was at junior school (over 40 years ago) all the posh kids were able to bring in margarine tubs when I couldn't as we had to slum it with butter.
The memory of trying to spread butter onto thin bread in a house with frost on the inside of the windows is something I hope not to repeat.
Eeeeh we ad it tuff.

My Nanna used to call margarine 'Cart grease'...

I heard that the original use for margarine was axel grease....

No idea who was the first to spread it onto their bread though.

Butter for the win, natural = better

IMO, the less processed crap you put on yourself the better.

I don't eat bread so have little use for either.

No bread = no butter

win-win

I heard that the original use for margarine was axel grease....

You heard wrong

No idea who was the first to spread it onto their bread though.

Would have been the bloke who invented it.

Because that's what he invented it for.

Recently discovered salted President spreadable - been great over summer as the normal butter was going too soft and off left out. They use cream instead of veg oil to make it spreadable 😀

To those who don't eat bread: what about cooking? Fish? New potatoes? Veg?

Butter because margarine is full of chemicals 😉

I use tesco own olivio type stuff... I hope that really upsets people here.

Margarine is for poor people.

A bonus with French butter is it's slower to go rancid due to the way it is made compared to British creamery butter. Useful in warm weather if you keep it out of the fridge for spreading.

+1
No bread = no butter

win-win

How do you make scrambled eggs?!

What do you slather over your green beans/asparagus/ect?!

What do you sauté with?!

How do you make scrambled eggs?!

What do you slather over your green beans/asparagus/ect?!

What do you sauté with?!

Butter only goes in the fridge when we go away. Lives on the worktop in its dish the rest of the time. Always has in my house , and my parents And my dads dads..... None of us have died yet,

Although a block rarely lasts more than a couple of weeks.

Butter only goes in the fridge when we go away. Lives on the worktop in its dish the rest of the time. Always has in my house , and my parents And my dads dads..... None of us have died yet,

Bet you a tenner you all do though.

It probably wont be butter related - unless they slip on it 🙂

butter is delicious.
margarine or any other spread is rank.

easy choice. we go through a block in a few days. nom. and it never goes in the fridge once it's opened.

a relative used to work in the labs where they made marg and has put us off it.

An omelet would be disgusting if cooked in anything other than butter

And pancakes!

How the hell do you make delicious golden pancakes without frying in butter (although bacon fat is even better)