What butter do you use?

Thanks for all the info Trill, really interesting to read a farming perspective, we live in dairy country now and I'm learning alot from lots of people I work with who are farmers too.

We were using the Aldi butter but recently have just been using block butter (still Aldi) and covering it and leaving it in the pantry. It's still pretty cool here at the moment but not sure what we will do in summer when it melts too much! It's amazing how much nicer it tastes!

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Ultimately, there's nothing wrong with choosing to use that product if you prefer it. I would just expect that when people choose it, they do so because they know 100% what goes into producing it and the implications of production and not just do it because it's become some new trendy thing they have read about on hipster/paleo/vegan blogs. Australia prides itself on it's quality of agricultural produce and millions of dollars are spent on R&D each year to make sure that we (the farmers) are growing our product according to world's best practice. You will not meet a regular, family farmer that would put his bottom line ahead of the welfare of his animals health and if someone did do that so they could satisfy some city numpty's conscience, then I wouldn't support that farmer on ethical principles.

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Well it's true I'm a city numpty, but definitely not a hipster :p Either way, pretty sure vegans don't eat grass or grain fed butter :p ;) Love ya work xx

For those that use block butter, check out butter bell's. great way to store butter without it curdling. You have less than a block in most bells which means its not out as long and it's spreadable without additives.

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For those that use block butter, check out butter bell's. great way to store butter without it curdling. You have less than a block in most bells which means its not out as long and it's spreadable without additives.

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They look BRILL!!!!!! Ordering one now!! Thanks hun! xx

No worries ;)

FWIW pasteurisation has nothing to do with grain-feeding and everything to do with TB and other zoonotic diseases.

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Where do you get butter bells from please rouge?

You can get them everywhere online. I haven't seen many in stores. And you can get them in varying sizes. When I did Low Carb many years ago they were big and there was a place everyone got them from at the time. But again I am pretty sure that was online. The small ones hold 1/4 of a block and the slightly larger ones a 1/2 block. I think eBay was good too. Start around $20 all the way up to $100 from memory. I'll search through my emails and see if I can find out. Or maybe tan can PM you what she found.

Google Butter Bell Crock. That was the one everyone had. There are Aussie stockists too.

Just been googling butter bells too. But I don't want to waste money on something that I'm not sure will work in QLD summer heat. At the moment, I've got some coles homebrand butter in a small ramekin sitting in a tupperware airtight container with some water around the ramekin. Not quite the same as a butter bell but free!

I looked on ebay and found them to be around $40+ then found one made by the Myrtleford Butter factory by a local ceramicist! Bonus! It's only $22 plus around $16 for shipping to me so Im thinking I will get that one!! Just need to work out how to sneak it past DH - tooooooo many online purchases arriving by post at the moment, damn working full time and having him at home to see all the mail arriving!! :rofl:

Farmhouse Direct has a $15 flat shippning fee and some awesome prodz.

There were people in Perth and QLD with butter bell's that raved about them.

If you change the water daily and have an inside temp of 27c or lower its fine.

Nuttelex

We got a butterbell. I got it online cause every house and kitchen shop I went to had no idea what I was talking about. We are in qld and it was great in winter and even spring but I can't use it in summer. The butter kept melting and falling into the water.

Can you please PM me the store 2CheekyMonkeys :)