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My s-i-l visited Paula Deen's restaurant in Georgia and said it's absolutely true...it's all about butter, sauces, and creams. 
Tonight I fried ham and cooked omelets for supper. The butter made a huge yummy difference with the platter of eggs.
We also like "buttery" corn, thank you very much.
My question is, which butter-brand is the safest, bestest, healthiest, while-at-the-same-time yummiest butter to cook with?
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 to butter! 
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Uhm, I don't know what you mean by "healthiest" . I usually get Land-O-Lakes or the Costco organic, but when I have some money to spend I go for Plugra or Lurpak or one of the European butters. Kerrygold Irish was my last buy. Amish butter (those large round packages) is next on my list of butters to try. (Come visit us in Ohio where we have a "Butter Case" at Jungle Jim's!) Yum!!!
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I'm a huge fan of butter!
We buy Amish butter logs either at Whole Foods (by the case for a discount) or at other local vendors around town. I've never seen it at the market, but it is at the Farmer's Market. Amazingly, Whole Foods has the best price especially when you buy by the case...unless a local farmer offers it and then that is usually the best price.
I use butter as the oil in all my baking.
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We use butter all the time ... except when dh sneaks in Olive Oil! ...
You really can't go too awfully wrong with butter as it's a MUCH better product than margarine and really does make things taste better.
The thing I never know is: salted or unsalted? 
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Mary G wrote:
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Me, too! I always by unsalted because I figure sodium's bad, but what's the difference?
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Mary G wrote:
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If you're baking, it's best to use unsalted because sometimes the extra salt in the butter can affect the outcome of your baking - particularly something like bread. If I'm cooking - say browning onions - I prefer salted.
All the amish butter is salted - I've never found un-salted - so I adjust the salt in baking recipes a smidge.
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Salt in butter is a sort of preservative, therefore, it will keep longer. Likewise, if unsalted butter was to last in my fridge long enough it could technically go bad faster.  Per, a recommendation from NT I usually get Trader Joe's Organic Unsalted.
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"Kerrygold" from Ireland is available in many well stocked grocery stores. It comes from cows that are grass fed. It's dark yellow and very delicious.
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We love butter! We use Irish, British and European butters daily. I like Lurpak, Presidente, and Kerrygold Irish (although this is usually salted). I prefer unsalted and it never lasts long enough in my house to worry about spoiling!
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From what I know/have read...getting butter from grass fed cows is best. That said, I can't always afford the strictly local, grass fed, so I buy Cabot Farms butter. It is always a brighter yellow than the store brand or even Land O Lakes.
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Supposedly pesticides and such are stored in fat. Am I right?
Can't always afford organic but prefer it.
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Since butter is a fat, I buy the organic. A friend has done some research in fats/hormones/fertitlity...per her recomendation, if it is a fat (fat soluable) like butter, mayo, oil, I try to make the healthiest choice.
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If you really want to feel GREAT about butter (and milk, eggs, and meat),
read Real Food: What to Eat and Why
by Nina Planck.
It will knock your socks off- a huge eye opener, to say the least.
Butter made from raw milk from pasture-fed cows is the most nutritious. It has the most omega-three fatty acids, and higher levels of other vitamins than pasteurized butter from grain fed cattle.
But read the book- it will change how you eat!
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I agree, Melinda. I'm reading that book right now and it's very, very interesting! It's so hard to read all the conflicting nutrition information ... I've been literally FED all the wrong things in my body and my mind for so long!
I've dabbled in the traditional diets a while now so this was on my to-read list for quite some time...
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I haven't a clue what is the bestest butter Cay plus we don't live in the states but I would think the freshest most local would be the bestest .
I love butter on veggies yum yum and love love cold butter on bagettes etc. more then warm butter .
The yummiest buttery thing I ever made was when our eldest dd wanted to make croissants . I had no idea how to make them or how much butter it took but it was totally worth making them in the end just yum yum buttery goodness 
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I usually buy Trader Joe's organic as well--absolutely the best tasting, recommended by the WAP foundation as a good butter and, while expensive, still way cheaper than many of the "good" butters at my co-op last year. You really just want the yellowest butter you can find--margarine is dyed to look like really good butter! Check all the butters available at your stores and get the best looking one. When in doubt, do a taste-test.
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No advice, but we've finally bought a cow...well, she's still a heifer, and we'll (God willing) be breeding back to a dairy bull this fall--milk come spring time! WOOHOO! And if we can get a heifer out of her, well, we'll be even better set--arranging the breeding cycles so we have calving at different times, down the road...
Milk, butter, and someday, cheese. Off our pasture. Out of our cow/s.
YUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM (and then I will be able to try making croissants.....).
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