Irish butter

Seamai · 07-11-2020 09:03PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

I give you Lurpak, Danish butter which can rival any Irish butter, especially when spread over Scottish Pride toast.

I doubt most Danish cows ever see the light of day or would know what to do in a field of fresh grass. The Danes have been pretty successful when it comes to producing pork, bacon and dairy products but only because the treat farming like an intensive industry.

suicide_circus · 07-11-2020 09:16PM

I never knew how good Irish is until I ate some butter in Holland many years ago, my god it was sh1te.

ShagNastii · 07-11-2020 09:25PM

Some of the food we produce it genuinely world class.

I have friends in the agrifood business and selling around the world for them is painful easy. The standards, processes and products we have crap all over their ilk elsewhere.

That goes for the mass produced products from the like of Kerry.

I once paid $60 on a steak that tasted like a €2 burger.

Sgt Hartman · 07-11-2020 09:46PM

I love the old Kerrygold Horse to France ad, especially the auld biddy giving the French one a filthy look and going "We're goin' to be servin' noww, any minnit!"

Glenstal Butter with the salt crystals is really good also, especially on spuds. I also tried the Normandy Butter with salt crystals from Tesco and it was fabulous.

speckle · 07-11-2020 10:03PM

Nothing like a spud straight from a fire with a dollop of Irish butter. mmmh

Potential-Monke · 07-11-2020 10:13PM

Block of Kerrygold, there is no other butter imo. And no, other brands don't taste anything like it. Some might get close, but nothing compares to a block of Kerrygold.

I'd imagine those that think x brand tastes like Kerrygold also think Coke and Pepsi taste the same, ie: no tastebuds.

Day Lewin · 07-11-2020 10:16PM

World's best butter. End of.

Brian? · 07-11-2020 10:20PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

I give you Lurpak, Danish butter which can rival any Irish butter, especially when spread over Scottish Pride toast.

Lurpak? You need your taste buds checked. Flavourless ****e.

Church on Tuesday · 07-11-2020 10:33PM

Yikesoc wrote: »

Shock horror, but what was acceptable back then doesn't meant it was't racist. It just means we accepted it. But not anymore. We cannot continue to endorse and endure racist stereotypes, it doesn't matter that the poster was rehashing a quote from another media. It's still wrong.

Cop yourself on.

Potential-Monke · 08-11-2020 12:42AM

How did a thread about butter end up with racism in it...

Anyway, if you are a fan of Kerrygold and biscuits, get their shortbread biscuits. It's literally their butter in biscuit format. Expensive and very rich, but so so nice!

And I mean literally, not in the common misuse of the word way, they are literally Kerrygold butter in biscuit format

igCorcaigh · 08-11-2020 01:47AM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

How did a thread about butter end up with racism in it...

Anyway, if you are a fan of Kerrygold and biscuits, get their shortbread biscuits. It's literally their butter in biscuit format. Expensive and very rich, but so so nice!

And I mean literally, not in the common misuse of the word way, they are literally Kerrygold butter in biscuit format

How, I mean where, did you even find this thing?

Zaph · 08-11-2020 01:54AM

Lads, if you think Kerrygold is good, you'll lose your sh*t over Glenstal butter. Not made by the monks any more as far as I know, but it's pretty close to a religious experience.

Treppen · 08-11-2020 01:58AM

Zaph wrote: »

Lads, if you think Kerrygold is good, you'll lose your sh*t over Glenstal butter. Not made by the monks any more as far as I know, but it's pretty close to a religious experience.

Dunno I got it and didn't get any bang off it.

Actually my favourite butter is
Paysan Breton Beurre Moule Demi-Sel

Potential-Monke · 08-11-2020 03:21AM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

How, I mean where, did you even find this thing?

Supervalu usually has them, but I've bought them in Spar and Centra too at some point.

dxhound2005 · 08-11-2020 10:47AM

46 Long wrote: »

All salted butter has the same ingredients as Kerrygold.

The Tesco and Dunnes own brand stuff is very nice but it's a bit saltier and not as creamy.

The salt content of Tesco and the others is 1.8% the same as Kerrygold. They are all the same product, just different wrappers.

tabby aspreme · 08-11-2020 11:03AM

Dtp1979 wrote: »

I didn’t realise Kerry cows produced superior milk than Offaly cows. My apologies.

Kerrygold is manufactured in Mitchlestown, doubt if there is much Kerry milk in it

chosen1 · 08-11-2020 02:28PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

There is some very good irish ghee available now too. Game changer for curries.

This is posted over a day now and not one person has made a joke out of this.

Amazing

08-11-2020 02:28PM

chosen1 wrote: »

This is posted over a day now and not one person has made a joke out of this.

Amazing

We all very mature here.

Esel · 08-11-2020 08:02PM

chosen1 wrote: »

This is posted over a day now and not one person has made a joke out of this.

Amazing

Giz a go of your ghee!

RasTa · 08-11-2020 08:30PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXUzhTn0kI

I'd say this is better then Kerrygold. The nicest butter I ever had was in Sweden but that was homemade in some Michelin star place.

However for a mass produced product, Kerrygold is top of the class. Unlike their footballers today

saneman · 08-11-2020 09:59PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

We all very mature here.

Ah not at all, that would be the Irish Cheddar thread.

Kerrygold is a winner for me although I'm sure the likes of Glenstal, Abernathy and Cuinneog butters would leave me with a smile on my face.

This though, i don't know what these lads are touting...

Snakejam salesman i tell ya!

gozunda · 08-11-2020 10:05PM

RasTa wrote: »

https://youtu.be/ZyXUzhTn0kI

I'd say this is better then Kerrygold. The nicest butter I ever had was in Sweden but that was homemade in some Michelin star place.

However for a mass produced product, Kerrygold is top of the class. Unlike their footballers today

France? Must have been that dratted horse :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxl0UmXi8a0

Potential-Monke · 08-11-2020 10:54PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The salt content of Tesco and the others is 1.8% the same as Kerrygold. They are all the same product, just different wrappers.

Same in name maybe, but not in taste.

Witchie · 09-11-2020 03:11AM

Greyfox wrote: »

We make the best butter in the world but Nutella instead of butter is the wise mans choice

Not if you are a wise woman with a nut allergy.

bodhrandude wrote: »

I give you Lurpak, Danish butter which can rival any Irish butter, especially when spread over Scottish Pride toast.

When I can't get Kerrygold, I get Lurpak. It's ok but no KG.

Am glad my very drunk rant about butter got such a great discussion going. Am finally sober after 2 days drinking and gonna make some toast with Kerrygold for my brekkie.

Gremlinertia · 09-11-2020 03:26AM

Grr will be hankering for toast with real butter for the rest of the night now.

Oafley Jones · 09-11-2020 03:40AM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The salt content of Tesco and the others is 1.8% the same as Kerrygold. They are all the same product, just different wrappers.

Ya, it’s the EXACT same thing. Used to work in the labs that analysed the diary products directly from the manufacturers, brought in by the agricultural inspectors. Same lads also did the farm inspections. For my sins, I used to have to do up the reports, with butterfat, salt percentages etc etc. You’ll see where they’re packaged in the same facility by the approval numbers on the wrapper eg IE1086, IE1048 etc.

46 Long · 09-11-2020 04:59AM

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Ya, it’s the EXACT same thing. Used to work in the labs that analysed the diary products directly from the manufacturers, brought in by the agricultural inspectors. Same lads also did the farm inspections. For my sins, I used to have to do up the reports, with butterfat, salt percentages etc etc. You’ll see where they’re packaged in the same facility by the approval numbers on the wrapper eg IE1086, IE1048 etc.

Fake news

DrPhilG · 09-11-2020 01:41PM

Spotted some Kerrygold in Mauritius years ago, a worldwide phenomenon.

dxhound2005 · 09-11-2020 06:54PM

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Ya, it’s the EXACT same thing. Used to work in the labs that analysed the diary products directly from the manufacturers, brought in by the agricultural inspectors. Same lads also did the farm inspections. For my sins, I used to have to do up the reports, with butterfat, salt percentages etc etc. You’ll see where they’re packaged in the same facility by the approval numbers on the wrapper eg IE1086, IE1048 etc.

This is a post from a thread in 2016, which confirms what you say. I doubt if any of those who claim that Kerrygold is different, could pick it out in a blind tasting.

I worked in a Avonmore cheese and butter processing plant for a number of years. We process Kerrygold, Tesco and a few more unbranded butter's and packaged them also.

They both use the EXACT same milk byproducts, EXACT same churn and EXACT same packaging equipment, the only difference being that the actual package wrap is changed on packaging lines when quotas are met.

The Kerrygold unsalted butter in the silver package was the only type of butter that was different, very popular in the US.

igCorcaigh · 09-11-2020 07:49PM

So Avonmore = Kerrygold?

Huge, if true.

Or is that just about the supermarket brands?

Irish butter

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