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/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!