The debate has been going on for years… butter, or margarine? Which do you use most in your kitchen?
They’re used for many of the same reasons in the kitchen and at the dining room table, but butter and margarine are two very different products. Butter is a dairy product that is made from churning milk or cream. The churning process is what separated the solids, the butterfat, from the liquids, the buttermilk.
Margarine, on the other hand, isn’t a dairy product. Its primary ingredients are vegetable oil, water, salt, emulsifiers, and sometimes milk.
Which do you use most often in your kitchen? Please vote in the poll below and tell us there.
I grew up in Wisconsin. It was illegal to sell margarine for a long time. Then it used to be white, and you had to color it yourself. My sisters talked about making oleo runs to Illinois to buy it. I’d rather have something that’s pure and simple. Butter. (In fact, every year in June, my home town of Sparta Wisconsin has a butter fest, including parades!)
My Mom would never touch margarine. She, too, remembers during WW II having to mix the color into the white margarine. I’m with her.
I believe it is still the law here that you cannot have margarine on a restaurant table without also having butter. You can have butter only or both but not just margarine.
Only butter in our home and RV.
Butter, never margarine. Would not even consider eating lard with food coloring and salt. Google search and read the history of margarine.
Only BUTTER baby!!!!
A year + on Keto. Butter all the way, all the time.
Ghee.
Yuck!
How is it on toast, for example? I’ve wondered … been tempted to buy it. But haven’t because I know nothing about how it tastes!
Basically, it’s synthetic food. The taste
depends on the brand and ingredients used.
Ghee is clarified butter.
For the first 73 years of my life it was margarine, since marrying my wonderful wife 4 years ago it’s changed to butter, so I guess it’s a matter left up to the women as to what they use.
Margarine wouldn’t even make it in my cart, never mind my kitchen. It is plastic, ya’ know?
I use a blended product with margarine and butter called Move over butter. It’s spreadable so no very soft spread,unless you want it be.
No margarine at our house. We will use a butter/olive oil spread for those times we need spreadable cold butter but that’s as far as we stray.
Olive oil….. 👍
Also avocado oil.
(You’ll get used to it!)
While in Quartzite one year, we had a leftover stick of margarine( from a cookie project) in the frig. I decided to donate it to the critters in the Desert and put the whole stick in a bush.
After 4 days, in 90 degree weather, not only did it not melt, but nothing tried to eat it either. I decided that day that if I couldn’t feed something to starving animals, maybe I shouldn’t be eating it either. Butter only for me please.
Now THAT’s convincing!
I’m with Dave. Margarine is an evil product, butter for me or nothing.
Great believers in Julia Childs. No margarine here.
Because butter has NEVER claimed to be as good as margarine! I want the real stuff!
Only a couple of specific margarines, though. I have a dairy allergy – no butter and a soy allergy that limits the margarines – fortunately it is the healthier ones.
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. we’ve been using margarine for 50-years now? first because we couldn’t afford butter. now, after 50-years we’ve become so accustomed to the taste of margarine that real butter tastes weird.
Real butter, #1. But close 2nd: Olive oil and avocado oil. Try them on your toast!
Butter…because I am worth it and deserve it..
Now that the 7 kids are grown and on their own we can afford the butter!
For me, most food exists to be a butter-carrier. Wonder how my arteries are looking?!
Food is just a vessel for getting yummy butter into your mouth . . .
As a kid in 50s & 60s it was margarine, since that I went to butter and never looked back. When going back to visit family they still have margarine one of my first stops is go get some butter if we don’t have it in RV.
Yes!!!
Calorie free substitute
It’s both disgusting!
My doctor said if your “ ticker “ stops working, your dead.
Clogged arteries and heart disease will kill you before you even think about the other stuff that might kill you as you grow older. My dad had quad bypass and it was not pretty. I grew up in an air force family and we ate what my mom put on the table. I became a vegetarian over 30 years ago, because of frozen TV dinners, frozen veggies.
I have a dairy allergy so I use an oil based spread.
Always butter on my food. Sometimes margarine to cook it with.
I used unsalted whipped butter to spread and unsalted butter to cook with. By way of explanation, I’m a type II diabetic since 2004, Hypertensive, and in 2006 was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), not to mention my friend Arthur. After all that I should be 18 feet under. But in 2009, I decided that the Dr’s advice about limiting exercise was BS. I started walking, using my Cardio-glide (an old exercise machine), and just doing things that forced me to move. I still limit salt,and sugar intake. The result is my prescription meds have been cut by 70% by the Dr based on test results he got back. I have been PT’ing (7 out of 12 mos) since 2015, and I am 75 and fabulous if I say so myself. The upshot is I listen to the DRs, but I take their recommendation with a grain of salt, *that’s the only salt in my diet LOL). I love butter, Seafood, Beef and Pork, and I eat those items sensibly, along with fruits and vegetables. I have10 more great yrs in me, then after that 10 more good
The secret to healthy eating is to eat PLENTY of eggs and bacon for breakfast, a nice greasy hamburger for lunch, and a fatty beef steak for dinner — but you have to put a lot of salt on all of it… the fat may TRY to clog your arteries, but the salt just keep blowing it through!
That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it! You only live once, so don’t eat like your already dead…
We have started using avocado mashed and seasoned with a little lime just, jalapeno salt, and cumin as a spread on toast in place of butter. Way more flavor.
Hi, Snayte. Is “lime just” a combination of lime juice and lime zest? 😉 I’ll edit it if you want me to. (Sounds delicious, whatever it is.) 🙂 —Diane at RVtravel.com