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Kerrygold - Best butter I have ever eaten!

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  • odie91
    odie91 Posts: 541
    Guys, give credit to where it's due.  Those water butter bell holder upside down thingies are French butter dishes ;)

    anyhow, you should change the water every few days.   I also sprinkle salt into the water to inhibit mold growth.   The salt will not get into the butter.    
  • BYS1981
    BYS1981 Posts: 2,533
    RRP said:
    Taste tests to start here soon! BTW I also found the Plugra at my Kroger. It was only $3.99 vs. $4.99 for the Kerrygold. From comments made in this thread plus some food blogs I've read it will be a coin flipper!

    My wife and I tried both some time ago, I believe America's test kitchen rated them very highly, so we tried then and loved both.
  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,023
    edited May 2015
    BYS1981 said:
    RRP said:
    Taste tests to start here soon! BTW I also found the Plugra at my Kroger. It was only $3.99 vs. $4.99 for the Kerrygold. From comments made in this thread plus some food blogs I've read it will be a coin flipper!

    My wife and I tried both some time ago, I believe America's test kitchen rated them very highly, so we tried then and loved both.
    Thanks - here's the link:
    https://www.cooksillustrated.com/taste_tests/1553-salted-butter
  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,459
    Found the Kerry today at Kroger today for 3.99. Gave it a taste. Definitely more flavorful. Thanks for the post. 
  • gamason
    gamason Posts: 406
    Took the advice of my fellow eggers and tried some on homemade bread this past weekend for a party. All in attendance raved about how good it was. I too am sold. Thanks for the share!

    Snellville,Ga.

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    Minimax

  • cazzy
    cazzy Posts: 9,136
    edited November 2015
    Kerrygold is on sale at Costco right now.  3-8oz packs for $5.98.

    Treated several family and friends go Kerrygold this weekend.  They all thought it was crack...especially on buttermilk cornbread.
    Just a hack that makes some $hitty BBQ....
  • blind99
    blind99 Posts: 4,974
    @cazzy that's a great deal, thanks.  I love that stuff.  It's almost too rich in chocolate chip cookies but I manage somehow...
    Chicago, IL - Large and Small BGE - Weber Gasser and Kettle
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,403
    noticed last week at aldis that they now carry kerrygold cheeses, didnt look to see if they had the butter
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  • good stuff ron
    grass fed, that's the trick there.

    lot more carotenes etc.

    egg yolks are yellower too, and beef fat healthier, when grass fed.



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  • Focker
    Focker Posts: 8,364
    noticed last week at aldis that they now carry kerrygold cheeses, didnt look to see if they had the butter
    Spotted the cheeses, haven't seen the butter. 
    Brandon
    Quad Cities
    "If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful."

  • 4Runner
    4Runner Posts: 2,948
    I have been making clarified butter with my KG...maybe that is waste as any old butter would come out the same after clarifying?
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  • Thatgrimguy
    Thatgrimguy Posts: 4,738
    edited November 2015
    I've been making homemade butter for a couple years now. I store it open on my counter for weeks at a time. It's fine. Usually it doesn't last a week.

    Kerrygold is better than the butter I make with plain heavy whipping cream but not as good as when I can find grass fed fresh cream. But that's hard to come by around here.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    good stuff ron
    grass fed, that's the trick there.

    lot more carotenes etc.

    egg yolks are yellower too, and beef fat healthier, when grass fed.



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  • ^this i am aware of.  didn't say they ate only grass, but that when they do, it is a benefit to the egg produced

    wasn't presenting the entire dietary requirements of each animal, just that the grass is a good thing.  reflected in the color of the yolk etc.



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  • Focker said:
    noticed last week at aldis that they now carry kerrygold cheeses, didnt look to see if they had the butter
    Spotted the cheeses, haven't seen the butter. 
    The cheeses are money too. We have the Dubliner around all the time. They sell it at Costco too.


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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    ^this i am aware of.  didn't say they ate only grass, but that when they do, it is a benefit to the egg produced

    wasn't presenting the entire dietary requirements of each animal, just that the grass is a good thing.  reflected in the color of the yolk etc.



    My bad.  I thought you were saying they just ate grass.
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  • Yes I knew that it was on sale at Costco. My wife came home last weekend with 32 1.5lbs packages of KG butter. 
  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,694
    I get mine at Costco
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). 

  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,023
    edited December 2015
    Firemanyz said:
    Yes I knew that it was on sale at Costco. My wife came home last weekend with 32 1.5lbs packages of KG butter. 
    Is that a typo? a half pound package lasts me 2 weeks so if I were to buy 32 1.5lb packages then I'd be set until mid August, 2018. 
  • rifrench
    rifrench Posts: 469
    caliking said:
    I think Costco used to sell it. May be cheaper than Kroger. 
       The Costco on Mall Drive in Chesterfield county still carries it.
     1 LBGE, 1 SBGE, 1 KBQ and a 26" Blackstone near Blackstone, Virginia
  • Focker
    Focker Posts: 8,364
    noticed last week at aldis that they now carry kerrygold cheeses, didnt look to see if they had the butter
    Found it, $2.89
    Brandon
    Quad Cities
    "If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful."