Butter is best ____.
Butter that versatile creamy, delicious fat that we all love so much. What is your absolute favourite way to consume it?
I can't get enough of buttered crackers. Triscuits or saltines are the best. Smear 'em with a bit of room temperature salted butter. Enjoy. Pure guilty pleasure.
Also, when I worked at a patisserie there were these enormous 20something pound cubes of creamy unsalted butter in the walk-in. For breakfast we would take the fresh out of the oven baguettes, chisel some butter onto them... bliss.
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36 Comments:
A little cliche but on fresh baked croissants and NYC bagels. But in reality, I come from the school of butter makes EVERYTHING taste better from vegetables to rice to pasta to sauces... I could go on forever.
KtMc24 at 10:44AM on 01/10/08
Lightly salted butter slathered on corn on the cob. There is nothing better.
chisai at 10:49AM on 01/10/08
I'm from the same school!!!
Butter is best....salted, unless it's for baking.
PerkyMac at 10:51AM on 01/10/08
I love buttered toast or bagels. I don't put much butter on other foods. I do love to use it in baking and agree it should be unsalted for baking, but salted for table use.
chiff0nade at 10:57AM on 01/10/08
period.
kitchengeeking at 11:11AM on 01/10/08
...when it's real butter. No margarine, no "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" -- none of that crap. Go real or go home.
sheeats at 11:19AM on 01/10/08
I love it on anything toasted (bagels especially) but am reminded of my childhood when it is served on pastina or orzo with parmesan cheese.
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 12:09PM on 01/10/08
...on fresh baked italian bread, or with a hint of garlic over steamed bok choy. mmmmm
savecara at 12:21PM on 01/10/08
With crusty bread and a pepperoncini sidecar.
Kerosena at 12:51PM on 01/10/08
Drawn butter with a splash of fresh lemon juice served with Alaskan King Crab Legs. (I only eat the crab so I can have the butter.)
hatlady at 1:18PM on 01/10/08
I can eat most anything without butter (even corn on the cob is fine as long as I've got salt). But I find it irresistible on bread, toast, biscuits, croissants, whatever. When I don't feel well, I like it on plain rice or pasta.
Baked potatoes. I just don't much like 'em without loads of butter.
And, I have an enormous weakness for jambon-beurre. The ones you get in Paris. At an outdoor cafe. Watching the people go by. Especially in late springtime. Sigh.
LoCo at 1:21PM on 01/10/08
Why does this thread make me think of Paula? Butter y'all! I use the most butter on making croque monsieurs...my husband will eat two or three at a time.
jcrisco at 3:11PM on 01/10/08
Ahhhhhh...softened butter slathered on a seriously seared ribeye!
bessfour at 3:18PM on 01/10/08
To add some more:
English muffins ( the knooks and crannies are made for butter) and
Toasted waffles with syrup.
KtMc24 at 4:18PM on 01/10/08
oooh yes. i second english muffins. they are just a vehicle for drip-down-your-chin melted butter goodness.
lexophile at 4:32PM on 01/10/08
"Go real or go home"... Love it!
Butter is best: on the first slice of fresh-from-the-oven bread.
Butter is best: in homemade shortbread.
Butter is best: on a warm croissant.
Actually... butter is best: on just about anything!
sheldel at 4:52PM on 01/10/08
Oh saltines and butter! I literally lived on 2-packs of crackers and foil wrapped pats of butter filched from the cafeteria (any money I had went to coffee) for weeks at college....(too proud to ask for money from home), and yet, I still love it!
I would be hard pressed to pick the ultimate use of butter though...why choose, just keep testing!
Cary at 5:00PM on 01/10/08
Mmm...I like butter on or with many of the same foods as others have mentioned. A good spread on toast with ample cinnamon sugar is heaven! I am also known to slather butter on cold banana bread:)
JEP at 5:50PM on 01/10/08
Fried. no, really, i kid. Any fresh, warm bread.
beth1 at 11:53PM on 01/10/08
...when it's Kerrygold Pure Irish.
grampart at 9:59AM on 01/11/08
Yes.
lemons at 10:36AM on 01/11/08
...on warm sourdough. Unfortunately, it's been 16 years since I've lived in the SF Bay Area, so good sourdough is tough to find in Texas or Arizona.
jmoilanen at 11:20AM on 01/11/08
On piping hot bread, mashed potatoes, with pastina and grated cheese.
JerzeeTomato at 11:38AM on 01/11/08
On fresh, warm dill bread.
On baked potatoes.
On boiled red potatoes.
On corn on the cob.
And I fry eggs in butter. I prefer it to peanut oil or bacon fat or anything else.
minstrel at 11:57AM on 01/11/08
MMMmmmm... grampart, I buy Kerrygold too. I've tried buying Danish and French butters, but they're always "old" tasting whenever I buy them. The best butter I've ever eaten, anywhere, ever, was in Denmark. It was so delicious, I was practically eating it straight from the dish. "Would you like some bread to accompany your butter, ma'am?"
Plugra is pretty good, too, but Kerrygold is by far the most reliable and consistent quality import I've found so far. Much tastier than the US butters I've tried. But I can't get it unsalted around here. So, I also buy Tillamook.
LoCo at 12:16PM on 01/11/08
the best is the garlic butter that comes with escargots. my first job was in a small bistro and we would all stand by the kitchen door when the waiters would bring back the escargot plates. We each had hot french bread in our hands and would dunk into the leftover garlic butter. needless to say this was a very long time ago before we knew better. but the butter and garlic mix is still my favorite. i just don't eat it as much now! and i have my own plate!
MaryColeman at 1:00PM on 01/11/08
I find it so annoying when, in a restaurant, the breadbasket arrives full of warm delicious rolls, but accompanyied by margarine! (That happened to me last week).
No matter what anyone says, there's nothing like butter -- real butter!
SavtaShayna at 1:10PM on 01/11/08
Butter is awesome on everything, and it is actually not as bad for you as the soy and corn industry, makers of so-called healthier spreads but in fact just the opposite, would have you believe.
I definitely prefer butter made from cultured cream with a lower moisture content. Conventional American butter is pretty bland and flavorless in comparison. Thankfully there are now more and more American dairies making European style butter.
seyo at 1:45PM on 01/11/08
...on cornbread or banana bread.
Oh, and in my childhood memories of Mom's garlic bread: a whole softened stick mashed with several cloves of garlic, smeared on a french baguette and then baked in the oven until toasty and fragrant!
Amandarama at 1:46PM on 01/11/08
there's nothing i like better than cold sweet butter on a crusty baguette. maybe a little shortbread for dessert. i've been a land o lakes person all my adult life, but will have to try the kerry gold.
i have to keep mine in the freezer, so that i just use it for baking and don't go through a pound a week...
cybercita at 1:58PM on 01/11/08
I really don't like butter to be honest but when i do enjoy it, it's on popcorn or lobster!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 2:06PM on 01/11/08
It's funny, I've always had American friends and gone to stay at their houses for vacations and what not. I cannot express strongly enough how disappointed I was the first time I had buttered toast for breakfast. Generic American butter is nothing like Canadian. Although I wonder now if it wasn't one of those "butters" that is like 25% butter, 75% margarine. It was flavourless and wouldn't melt properly on the hot toast.
lexophile at 2:19PM on 01/11/08
yes I use whipped style no salt
rabbitriddle at 3:14PM on 01/11/08
Butter is divine slathered on a piece of french or italian bread - broken from not sliced off the loaf - dunked in a cup of your favorite sweet hot tea. Add an icy cold globe radish and winter will just melt out of your joints! Even the lowly Lipton teabag can raise its head with this combination.
misterybus at 5:17PM on 01/12/08
Mmm butter. I regularly make compound butter in every flavor from pepper sage to honey pecan. I use it when baking and it also tastes delicious on warmed up crostini.
I think my all time favorite way to eat it though is a thick slice of my Mom's banana bread with a generous shmear of salted butter. It is the perfect combination of sweet, chewy, salty and creamy.
omg need some now!
Favorite brand: Lurpak Danish Butter, it is simply better than anything out there aside from making it at home yourself.
kcline at 7:32PM on 01/12/08
Butter is best....YES IT IS!!!
I love it on rye toast - light rye, dark rye and all the ryes in between!
Pasta, rice, cous cous, potatoes! Any type of bread - let's just say it goes with carbs!
Blue Cheese or Garlic Herb Compound butter on a grilled NY Strip - heaven on a plate!
SayWhat at 8:27PM on 01/12/08