Trying *Almost* Every Kind of Vegan Butter (+ Baking Test) // Plant-Based Butter Review & Taste Test
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
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We try almost every kind of vegan butter on the market in the States. What's the best tasting when used as a spread? How does each perform in baked goods?
✹Products Mentioned✹
Earth Balance Original Buttery Spread
Simple Truth Organic Plant-Based Buttery Spread
Country Crock Plant Butter - Avocado Oil
Miyoko's Creamery Cultured Vegan Butter
Miyoko's Creamery Cultured Vegan Butter made w/ Oatmilk
Melt Organic Butter Spread
Pureblends Avocado Oil Plant-Based Butter
Milkadamia Buttery Spread
Califia Farms Plant Butter w/ Avocado Oil
Forager Project Organic Dairy-Free Butter
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0:00 what is the best brand of vegan butter?
0:55 Earth Balance Original Buttery Spread
2:45 Simple Truth Organic Plant-Based Buttery Spread
4:51 Country Crock Plant Butter w/ Avocado Oil
7:55 Miyoko's Creamery European Style Cultured Vegan Butter
11:30 Miyoko’s Creamery Cultured Vegan Butter (made w/ oat milk)
12:50 Melt Organic Butter Made with Plants
14:24 Pure Blends Avocado Oil Plant-Based Butter
15:45 Milkadamia Buttery Spread - Salted
18:55 Califia Farms Plant Butter w/ Pressed Avocado Oil
20:37 Forager Organic Dairy-free Buttery Spread
23:03 what are our favorite vegan butters?
25:42 how to bake with vegan butter
31:23 which vegan butter makes the best cookies? (taste test)
40:19 our favorite cookies
41:40 outro
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We came across your non-dairy butter review today. (We are always on the lookout for anything that references any of our milkadamia products and are excited to learn how they stack up). We are happy you enjoyed our butta taste as much as we do. We laughed when you said you consumed the rest of the Baggett using our Butta; we are always doing that! For us, bread is just an excuse to eat more butta.
Thank you for such an honest appraisal of the vegan butter world - we are okay with bougie. We know our choice to avoid using Palm Oil adds to the manufacturing complexity and thus price. While milkadamia Butta Bing Butta Bloom may feel like it cost an arm and a leg, using Palm Oil is costing us the Earth.
Keep up the impartial objectivity and authenticity!
I appreciate the level of detail... can you do: cream cheese? Sausages? Cheese shreds? Mac and cheese
Yes! All these please 😍
I feel like they did Mac and cheese before, but I could be wrong
And sour cream
Violife’s vegan cheese shreds are the best. Simple Truth’s vegan sour cream is the worst.
Myokyos butter (not oat) is so close to butter i love it. Not great for sauteeing, high heat kills its good flavor, just for toast and melted on top of or mixed in things potatoes/popcorn. Smart balance makes weird texture in cookies for me. Pure blend makes a great frosting I thought smart balance had added off flavor in frosting
y'all are amazing lol. i cant believe i watched yall eat butter for 45 minutes and was PURELY entertained the whole time
Wow. Me too.
You weirdo. 😉
ME TOO
yep
Yeah, not to be negative or anything, but some of us can’t spend 42 minutes of our lives watching two cute millennials eat vegan butter. Please consider editing your content for time.
TheWarrrenator read the blog post then.
Also, let's appreciate how much time Sarah spent baking all these cookies. Guys, she puts her heart into making these videos!
Miyoko’s is the best. I use it on all my parents’ meat-eating friends and NOBODY can tell the difference. The only thing that happens is their eyeballs get big and almost fall out of their head when I tell them it’s vegan, lol. It’s awesome because then they are enthusiastic to try OTHER vegan delights right after💚
Totally my FAV too. Uncanny how much Miyokos’ European-style it tastes like dairy butter.
It's so funny to me how many people love her products in general. I really don't like any of them. :)
that’s because it has oat milk! the best non dairy milk!❤️
thank you for your service omg so many butters! I thought we were doing pretty good in Canada but the selection you're getting is amazing!
Can you post the recipe for the single-serving cookies?? I would love to just be able to make two cookies!
what you can also do is put cookie dough in the freezer and bake them as you want
Yes pleaseeee
Yes, please!
If you go on pinterest and search 2 cookie recipe, you'll find it! Just have to find something to substitute the egg.
Y'all are both looking really cute with the colored hair, love the red on you Sarah :)! I was using earth balance but I recently got really inexpensive dairy free butter at aldi! It's called countryside creamery ~ haven't used it much/for baking yet though
Oh that's awesome! I don't have an Aldi's near me -- I have to make it to one next time I'm visiting my family.
For those concerned about buying organic and/or ethical palm oil, I’d recommend getting Earth Balance’s organic buttery spread. Last I read, the organic palm fruit is sourced from a region where orangutans don’t live. It doesn’t come in sticks but bakes just fine. The flavor is still classic Earth Balance imo.
Unnatural Vegan made a video on this, apparently there’s no such thing as ethical palm :( it’s all marketing
Eric eating bread and butter all night watching Love Actually is a mood.
Did anyone else have to pause half way through to make buttered toast? 😂
Oh my gosh .. I almost fell out of my chair when Sarah said “it tastes like the bird aisle smells in the pet store”.. I bought the Forager Project buttery spread and didn’t like it and wasn’t sure what it reminded me of... I am a fan of the organic Earth Balance ..thanks for sharing .. love your videos
I live in Finland, so I'm not going to find any of these products in the stores nearby - yet here I am, watching a 40-minute long video describing different types of butter just bc I love you guys
I was JUST trying to figure out if it was the butter that was messing with my cookies thank you so much 😭❤️
I’d suggest melt! I just made snickerdoodles with it last week. Just leave out the extra salt since vegan butter is usually salted.
Tbh for baking coconut oil is probably better than any vegan butter. Just our opinion 😁🌱
Something to definitely look out for is the % fat. Some spreads have a lot of water and not enough fat to work in baking.
The country crock almond oil one is my fav of the three country crock butters!! Tastes the most like butter to me!
Agreed!
I totally agree. It’s my favorite!
Gotta give this a try.
Myokos is my personal fav!
Comes in a box rather than plastic container and minimal clean ingredients! Plus tastes amazing. ♥️♥️😍
The audio is crisp. Video quality looks really good too. Love this type of video AND over 45 minutes. Good day. Love you guys
Thank you for complimenting the audio 😇😇
Eric's salt rant speaks to me soul. Love this taste test. So comprehensive. I'm an og earth balance girl myself. Partial to the red container, soy free...I just like the flavor a bit better than the yellow. Also I want to by Forager butter just to see what PetCo tastes like. Bravo guys!
What's the cookie recipe? They look soo good
"This tastes like something.." "Garbage?" Lmao I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't care for Califia farms. Only thing I like is their one black cold brew..daaaaassssit! Nothing else from them does it for me lol
ALL of their products have the strangest artificial flavor!!!!
Miyoko’s garlic parm spread is incredible! I was literally eating it with a spoon! Love her plain butter as well, and I always have Earth Balance on hand, love to bake with it.
I'm in NB, Canada! Becel makes a vegan margarine which tastes identical to the real thing. Earth Balance I think can be found at Sobeys & is also really good!
arielle.paige yes!! I love the vegan margarine, it’s super cheap too
We always get the Crystal margarine from Costco -NB Canada
Thanks for doing the baking portion, that helps a lot! I love baking but was having a hard time finding the right one to bake with. I live in HI so there's not a big selection of vegan butters available. I just bought my first Melt and found it saltier than the Earth Balance and Country Crock. Those are the top ones for me.
Wow, that's a big choice. I live in country Australia and have very limited options but I can get Naturli, which is a Danish brand and really good. It has shea butter, almond butter and carrot juice amongst others. It tastes like dairy butter to me, but it has been a long time.
Earth balance is by far my favorite. I threw the tub of Melt I bought in the trash. I really don't want butter that tastes like coconut. I also hated that Pure Blends avocado oil one. I need to try the Milkadamia and Califia Farms butter.
I'm so glad you went all out and even baked with all of them! Very helpful!
I really like you two, real and funny. Loved the comment about one of the butters tasting like the bird aisle smell in a pet shop! Hilarious.
You also don't wave the product about when showing it, so we can actually read the label. I could relate to your comments about flavours so they were well described and very helpful. Overall, a throughly likeable couple doing a great taste test on a wide range of vegan butters, both spread on bread and next baked in cookies. Excellent and thank you for all the work you put into this. Recommended.
I’m able to get the Melt sticks where I live!! They’re definitely convenient. Melt is by far my favorite overall for spreading and sautéing. Flavor is so good, and I especially love them since they use ethically and sustainably sourced palm oil, and are rainforest alliance certified. I could never go back to any other. :) I don’t bake nearly as often as I cook, and a lot of the time the recipes I use don’t call for a butter substitute lol.
Wonderful video! I haven’t tried some of the newer ones, and now won’t even bother. Earth Balance has always been my favorite for baking and cooking, so I’m really glad that it is still the best budget choice overall.
I don't comment much on videos but I absolutely adored this video and I'd love to see more like this in the future! I feel like you guys have really good insights and also can we just appreciate the amount of effort and all that went in to this?!?! Love it; thanks guys!
LOVED this video, so appreciated that you tried the butters straight up and in cooking!!!!
WOW! Hi Sarah & Eric. I can't believe I haven't come across this video before now. I love this comparison, including a nice variety of vegan butters, and I also enjoyed how some of these tastes brought back memories from your childhood. I hope you can try your cookie recipe again with our Baking Sticks. The sticks formulation is made without Canola, and Flaxseed Oil. This reduction in liquid oils makes the % of solid oils (Organic Coconut and Organic Palm Fruit Shortening) greater, allowing for it to remain a bit more solid, and your cookies might bake a little bit taller? Thanks for posting a fun and informative video to watch. I Subscribed now, so I won't be missing out for so long any more. :)
You guys did a great job, especially Sarah for putting all of this together!
You don't even understand how needed this video was 😅😂
This is great--very thorough and exactly the kind of info I was looking for. Thank you! :) Also, Sarah's face while tasting the Forager product off the knife at 22:00 is absolutely priceless! :D
Btw, I have a follow-up tidbit: I picked up a tub of the Earth Balance vegan Olive Oil plant butter. The only way it was remotely palatable was cold, on cold bread (and even then it wasn't good, and was way too salty). The moment you heat it, reverts back into its liquid form (on toast for example), it is truly vile. It ruined everything I made with it. Yuck.
OMG Sarah's facial expressions made this video!!!
I love melt! I'm rooting for it. Sending love to you both, thanks for the video!
Earth Balance has always been my favorite. I've tried a couple of other ones but Earth Balance was my the first vegan butter I've tried & I've been hooked ever since.
I love this. Such a great resource!
Thank you!!
I live in Ontario Canada and we have Melt and Earth Balance. You can get Miyokos at health food and specialty stores but it is like $10. It's about $5 for the mainstream ones. Becel also makes vegan margarine.
We need that cookie recipe!! They looked so crispy and perfect 😮
For anyone living in the UK, Naturli vegan butter is great and palm oil free. There is a spread and a stick version and you can find it in Sainsbury's :)
Earth balance is my favorite. To me it tastes the most like butter. Glad you guys did this. Thought about trying some different ones, will have to try some of the top recommended.
This is so interesting! love the miyoko’s oat milk butter! My favorite are the two miyokos you tried here and the earth balance in the pink/red package.
I loved this video!!! I had been using “I can’t believe it’s not butter” vegan but have been unable to find it for a couple months so I just hadn’t bought any. So excited to try your faves😁
Can watch you guys taste testing anything for any period of time. Looooove it!!
I loved this! I purchased forager butter a couple of weeks ago, it sucked. I`m really loving the country crock almond oil butter right now. I`m glad you mentioned that earth balance might have refined their recipe I`ll be trying that one again soon.
I'm so glad I came across your video. Someone had given me a package of the Country Crock butter. But it has kosher salt instead of the avocado oil. I was afraid it wouldn't taste any good. Good to know that it is very similar to regular butter. But my question is how well does it melt when cooking with it?
I love the level of detail and explanations about the butter. Can’t wait for the next one.
Newbie🌱 . So glad I found you on my feed! I just bought the country crock plant butter and thought it wasn’t vegan after all. Only because I’m new at this and read the 75% plant based so I haven’t used it. Definitely will now. I Love Miyokos butter but yes, definitely pricier here in L.A as well. I need your cookie recipe!!! 😋
Currently referencing this video now to make my apple crumble bc I'm lactose intolerant!
Checking out the blog now for reference!! Thanks Sarah!!
Is there a recipe on your blog for the single(ish) serve cookies?
This was useful and entertaining, thank you. I’d love to hear your vegan mayo thoughts. I’ve been using veganaise for ever but am wondering if there is any others that are good and perhaps cheaper !
I want to like Melt because I find it's pretty decent for SOME baking (since it's quite solid at fridge temp) but I found it tastes SO much like coconut. I couldn't enjoy it on toast! Earth Balance is a staple in my house bc it just tastes so dang good. Also, all vegan butters are so expensive in Canada lol. Earth Balance is usually between $4.99 and $6.50 rip
I agree about Melt. I literally could not use the rest of the tub. Way too much coconut flavour.
Sounds like Melt might be good for a precooked pastry crust, for a pie of similar profile, like coconut cream, or banana cream. Might be good for brownies or chocolate cake, as well. And frosting, in cool weather.
I use A LOT of vegan butter so I generally switch between Earth Balance (which I can buy in a massive tub), Melt (which typically always has coupons inside), and more recently Country Crock sticks when they go on sale. Earth balance is my favorite for pie crust since it holds up better, melt is good for sweet baked goods since it’s more coconut tasting and country crock has been my go to for other baking/cooking and spreading on stuff like cornbread and toast since it spreads the best and like you said is basic tasting. While I love more expensive butters I just can’t afford them since butter is a staple for me! Super informative video though, it was cool seeing your thoughts and reviews.
I use the Earth Balance (all flavors), Country Crock Avocado & Olive OiI (sticks & tub), and the Pure Blends Avocado Oil tub. My options are limited because of food allergies, but to have all of these when they weren't available to me as a kid - I love it. The only vegan butter I've ever tried & absolutely HATED was the vegan I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spread. It took me FOREVER to finish that.
YES! I needed this series. 🥰🥰
Love cooking with the country crock butter. I've tried the almond and olive oil one and it pretty much has the same consistency as regular butter! It's so good!!
What is your recipe for your single serve cookies??
I've used the Country Crock olive oil butter sticks and found they worked quite well. Used them in making cinnamon rolls and in making cookies and both desserts turned out great!
Great video. Thanks! My first foray into plant-based butter last week (Kerrygold butter & Brie cheese were my last holdouts😭), I picked up some
Miyoko. For $1.99. After watching this I’m heading to the store to stock up if it’s still on sale!😄
It’s not Kerrygold, but it’s good.
love the life size movie reference! haha, gosh our generation movies were iconic lol
For fellow Canadians - please try becel's new plant based sticks and slabs!! they come in both salted and unsalted and are unreal
That's funny, you all were not impressed with the Pure Blends avocado butter, which is my favorite. I've tried a lot of these, and we do always keep the country crock for baking, but I specifically buy the Pure Blends for just spreading on bread. I love it!
Thanks for this. It’s been so confusing. So glad you two do this together
very excited about this being a serious, i’ve been curious about vegan ground meat substitute, my local kroger stocks about 3 or 4 different kinds and i’m very indecisive haha
i love when you do these! thank you! Earth Balance is like the nice guy that you always go back to. :)
Very useful, especially for a beginner like me, thank you. I shall be sure to search for your items in the future. Such nice couple too!
I admire your dedication here. After watching, I, of course, had to go eat a piece of sourdough bread with butter. For the record, my current butter is the Country Crock plant butter tub made with almond oil. I like Country Crock, Melt, & Earth Balance.
earth balance sticks are amazing. my go to.
I buy the Country Crock Olive Oil and Almond Oil plant butters and I enjoy them a lot. I use them in a ton of meals/recipes.
Earth Balance is my go to but I do enjoy trying different ones too. The Miyoko's Oat milk spread was probably the least favorite I have bought but I haven't tried all the ones you tried. I think a taste test of chicken nuggs/patties would be awesome and vegan bacons!
Old video but I'm in Austria and my go-to butter is a brand called Flora. I'm not entirely plant based myself but this product is awesome for baking but also on bread or waffles. It's also pretty cheap compared to dairy butter. I've recommended it to people before and it's on sale every once in a while, so sometimes I get two blocks. They keep great, while dairy butter can start tasting a bit rancid-y after some time.
I love vitalite dairy free...I’m from the UK and most of the supermarkets carry it ♥️
I have NONE of these available in Europe.
I have never liked butter so I do not miss it at all.
However, I love your videos so much, I decided to watch it anyways. You guys are just so great! Fantastic sense of humor, lovely approach towards life and the content is always so entertaining!
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Anyways, sending you lots of love guys!
Have a great week!
This was great! Thanks for doing all that work. I've only used Earth Balance and OG regular Miyokos and for baking I like to use Miyokos. I find that it's less greasy, the consistency is better and finished products taste better than Earth Balance. 💞🧁🍰🍪
So good, thank you two!
Best ones here in the uk are..naturli (made with Shea butter) and Flora buttery.
Great video! When I was looking for a non-animal butter the other day, the only one I could find with no palm oil was the Simple Truth Buttery Spread, which, it turns out, I like a lot. NO PALM OIL in Simple Truth Buttery Spread! Butter beans for the win!
The critique was informative, and this couple is absolutely adorable.
Super useful!!! Thank you for all of the effort you put into this taste test!
Melt is great, very buttery-tasting, and it cooks well. Let it cook off some of the water. I haven't tried it in baking.
Does the Country Crock have omegas in it? I find that some things, like flax oil, can have a slight fishy taste, and I think it's from the omega in it.
Earth balance sticks are great for baking, use them every week, but having a problem finding them lately, in Tampa florida. Sticks are different than the tub for some reason
hmmm im gonna try adding water to my cookie dough. Also since im cooking with erythritol I want it to melt since it is thermophillic and also since im allergic to sugar too I'll see what happens. You said that the butter with the water as first ingredient was the softest cookie so...maybe... I'll see. Might update if any of y'all remind me. Thanks for the vid!
Thank u!! Now I know which ones to buy!! Great job!!
I really like the Miyoko's Oat Milk spread! Country Crock Almond Oil spread is a cheaper but still very good alternative.
Definitely does come down to preference taste-wise. her original butter will always be one of my faves!
In Canada, Becel does a Vegan Margarine. I use it mostly for all my baking and by itself! One of my favourites!
Which 🧈 (butter), should I use for (Plant Based Meats); that you would recommend.
I personally prefer Earth Balance and it does come in sticks. It's around $4.00 per tub at my local Kroger but it goes on sale at least once every 2 months when I buy 2 and freeze the 2nd one until I need it defrosted to use when I run low of the one I'm using.
Milkademia is soooo good! I’ve got to try those county crock butter sticks!
Get you a man that calls you "Butter Goddess"
Omg please don’t share those with your neighbors after you licked the knife and dipped it back into all of those containers lol.
id just sat down with a plate of cookies as i got the notification for this (2 hrs late f u youtube) so now i can watch this video in peace without getting hungry and envious of what you’re eating!
My very favourite one is the country crock sticks with almond oil. It's delicious.
I've been using the country crock avocado oil for buttercream!!! love it!! There's def a dif vetween the avocado one and olive oil one. The olive oil one flopped and got oily..the avocado one is the only one that can produce a nice stiff buttercream :)
Also, the country crock tub of avocado butter does not bake the same and does not produce the same type of buttercream! Too oily.
Thank you guys for all the detailed explanations and reviewing so many brands! I'm trying to get into buying more vegan products, and I love how thorough and helpful you guys were! You both seem like awesome people too. (:
aw thanks so much! we are so glad we could be helpful!
Informative and entertaining! This was a fun watch! Thank you!
Wow we are on the same wavelength I’m convinced lol. I just tried the forager and the miyokos spread
Did you get around to baking with the country crock? Thats the only one I really wanted to see but it got skipped lol
Melt has been my go to for buttered toast, it doesn’t taste exactly like butter, but I actually prefer the flavor to earth balance. Miyoko’s is my favorite for baking or something like buttered pasta where you want to taste it, just wish it was a bit more affordable!
Forager’s sour cream is the best I have found, I’d be interested in a sour cream taste test!
Sarah, where did you get the bottle lids?i love it to get one too. Thx