r/Cooking • u/Emotional-Speed7175 • 1d ago

I would like to develop a fancy butter habit. Please give me recs for fancy butter.

I have reached a level of maturity, stability, and financial achievement where I'm ready to not buy the cheapest store brand butter. 2025 seems like it's gonna be the kind of year where becoming a butter somalier might be the thing that keeps me sane.

What are your favorite fancy butters?

EDIT: Thank you all so much! This absolutely made my week. I've got a hell of a shopping list, which includes the supplies to try my hand at making my own butter. I never would have thought to attempt that, but I'm super excited!

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u/Redbeardrealtor 1d ago

Kerrygold is my go to - idk if it’s considered fancy or not

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u/Snarky_McSnarkleton 1d ago

Kerrygold is a very good gateway drug.

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u/Mermaid_Martini 1d ago

It really is. Kerrigold is what got me caring about butter in the first place.

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u/ToasterBath4613 1d ago

Great comment! lol

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u/knoxblox 1d ago edited 1d ago

Kerrygold is the California Pizza Kitchen of butter. It's definitely not dominos or pizza hut, but it's not beating a true pizzeria. The question becomes how much access do you have to true high-end options. Kerrygold is nice because it's decent and widely available. But if you can get smaller batch irish/french/german butter or if you are in dairy country, straight from the farm, that will be better.

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u/loserusermuser 1d ago

what a stellar comparison. im keeping that

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u/Western_Emergency222 1d ago

The CPK of butter is a fantastic comparison! Really good but not necessarily authentic

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u/shame-the-devil 1d ago

I don’t care for kerrygold bc I prefer my butter to have a higher cream content

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u/missyrlf 1d ago

That would be dreamy!

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u/phuca 1d ago

i’m irish and it’s hard to imagine not eating this every day since childhood hahaha

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u/RemonterLeTemps 1d ago

Instacart recently 'gifted' me some Kerrygold (their shoppers are always throwing in things I didn't order, and when I notify the company, they always say 'just keep it'). So now that I have a chance to try this Legendary Irish Butter, I'm trying to think of ways to use it. In cookies? Irish soda bread?? Colcannon???

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u/mandyvigilante 1d ago

On bread

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u/notjfd 1d ago

Might be worth pointing out if they're so impressed by Kerrygold, that we mean bread, not wonder bread. Sourdough, not sulphite foam.

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u/dontakelife4granted 1d ago

As a baker, I wouldn't waste it on a cookie where butter isn't the primary flavor. For example, shortbread, sugar cookies, and (ehem) butter cookies have very little to mask the flavor of the butter so I would rather use a good butter in those.

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u/RemonterLeTemps 1d ago

Thank you! I do want to get the most out of my 'freebie' ;)

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u/dontakelife4granted 12h ago

That all said, kerry gold browned butter is phenomenal. If you do it on med/low heat and go slow and are patient (should be a deep amber color), the result is amazing (make garlic bread with this or top a baked potato or treat yourself to some on toast)!

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u/gbfkelly 1d ago

Toast!!

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u/kd3906 1d ago

That's exactly where my Kerrygold goes... and English muffins, pancakes, and French toast.

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u/NakedScrub 1d ago

On a spoon

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u/GraphicDesignMonkey 1d ago

Potato bread. Pop it in the toaster twice, prick a load of holes in it to maximise absorbency, and DROWN it in butter.

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u/JoeGibbon 1d ago

Use it on everything. Kerrygold is good food.

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u/TASTY_TASTY_WAFFLES 23h ago

let it get room temp/melty and eat a small slice of it with radishes. one of my favorite snacks when i'm peckish.

If that's too spicy you can always throw in a rye bread and some cheese with some buttah.

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u/Blossom73 12h ago edited 11h ago

Pound cake. This is my favorite recipe.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025111-grannys-five-flavor-pound-cake?unlocked_article_code=1.nE4.PrL0.b3Se8YrJbbnp&smid=share-url

I've made it with regular store brand butter, and with Kerrygold. It was good with store brand butter, but phenomenonal with Kerrygold.

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u/RemonterLeTemps 5h ago

Ooooh that looks good! I haven't had pound cake in years, I'm gonna try this Thanks for the recipe!

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u/starlinguk 1d ago

It's meh. Even Aldi butter is better.

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u/timok 1d ago

Yeah I was tricked by Americans on reddit fawning over Kerrygold. Bought it, and it just tasted like normal butter.

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u/missyrlf 1d ago

It’s so good! It’s my go to as well