Your videos & set continue to look more beautiful with time. I still don't eat dairy for health reasons, but I do cook with/serve dairy, so it's great to learn about butter from you. Wow, this was a great video!
I buy raw milk and cream and make my own butter. It's amazing and coming from someone who is lactose intolerant, I don't have any stomach issues anymore! So look for raw grass fed milk, if you can, and always use grass fed and finished dairy and meats. If the cows are grass fed and finished, then they are eating grass 365. Now you might encounter a situation, like Kerrygold, who does allow the cows to eat grass, but then they finish on grain. Now the issue with that will be to make sure, if they do finish on grain, make sure it's not GMO grains! So just look for raw or 100 percent grass fed and finished! Avoid conventional at all costs! Just my opinion, God Bless Chef and keep up the good work!
The one important thing you failed to mention is ease of purchase. Kerry Gold is readily available at Walmart. Almost every city and small town in the USA has a Walmart. Lewis Road Creamery is not readily available in Kansas. I realize the world does not revolve around Kansas. But I can't buy it if no one is selling it. LRC website indicates it is available at the Wichita Kansas Whole Foods Market. But the WFM website says "this product is not available in Kansas." However...thank you for this review.
Hi! I would think it would be normal that taste of butter changes. I would imagine all depends of what the cow eats and the time of the year the butter was made. I would assume it’s like cheese.
A class action lawsuit was filed against Kerrygold for false, misleading, and deceptive marketing. At times of the year, Kerrygold cows are fed genetically modified grains (including corn and soy) instead of grass. Some of the lawsuits were dismissed because the plaintiff couldn’t prove receipts of the amount purchased and the subsequent damage. Kerrygold is not from 100% grass-fed cow’s dairy.
Thx for the info. I'm so upset about this, not because it's fed grains because it might be unavoidable during winter, but the that it's fed GMO grains 😡. I would never HV bought it if i knew. I'm returning then to Costco!
the grass that grows rapidly during the spring is usually most nutritious so it might taste different and have a darker yellow color as well as far as i know.
As someone who’s new to the grass fed milk and butter game I was previously using Vital Farms grass fed unsalted butter but until I’m able to find Maple Hills’ grass fed unsalted butter I’ll be using Kerrygold’s. For salted grass fed butter I was using Maple Hill but when I went to Whole Foods and saw the Lewis Road Creamery NZ salted butter I grabbed it and will NEVER look back!! God it’s SOOOOOOO DAMN GOOD!!! Lol It’s worth every single cent!!
As far as why some cows can't be 100% pasture grass fed ... winter. In many places where cows do well (Wisconsin, Vermont, et c.) the pastures are covered in snow for several months; and cows can't graze outside. They still have to eat something ... the dairy farmer will choose what they feel is the best winter feed for their cows. ["Best" is an opinion. For some farmers it's grain, but there are other feeds.] I grew up in a "margarine is better" household (1960s & 70s) and though I know better now and only buy butter, I use very little out of habit. I try to buy something tasty and healthful ... but given my consumption, I want individually wrapped 1/4 lb sticks, so I can freeze most of my butter until I use it up.
Dr Gundry says that cows have muted to casin 1. If you can find a farm that has guernsey cows, still are casin A2. Goat milk, or sheeps milk are casin 2. I got goat cheese and didn’t have problems like with the cow milk cheese. Kerrygold at my supermarket is $4.99. I like it, also I don’t think I would be able to get the other one. Gundry says allot of people are not lactose intolerant, it’s the casin A1 cows milk.
@@corsair6 so there is a big difference between the taste of cultured butter and non. You can have excellent cultured grass-fed butter. This would not only give you incredible flavor but also all of the health benefits. Cheers.
not sure whether u can source it, but u should try Westgold salted butter, also from new zealand. it tastes vastly different to the typical danish or french butters that i am used to. it tastes like the sea, and it makes sense considering the cows are raised on pastures right next to the sea. it is excellent when cooked in a seafood pasta. I will prefer a french butter for bread tho.
I wanted to dash out and get some, but it looks like it's only available about three hours from here. and no way to order online! I will be looking for it. I will be trying goat milk butter in a few weeks. Thanks, for the great tips!
My pleasure and as always I truly appreciate your encouragement. In new you’re I typed in Lewis Road Creamery and there was a store that sold it. I wonder why they don’t ship to you? Maybe they’re breaking out into the US market now. All the best!
For me, the best butter is Isigny Saints Mere, from France. It’s common enough to be found in most decent supermarkets. The grass fed butter has a pretty strong flavor and I love it.
French butters have a higher fat content than US one by default which changes their taste profile. Isigny Sainte-Mère has my favorite Camembert cheese and their cultured butter is like a like a creamy Brie.
I like comparisons like this, but I think it's best to not include products found only at 1 vendor (aka Costco or BJs). Sticking with what most grocery stores could carry would be most helpful to more people.
thank you for the video and the experiment with milk solids. I definitely agree that Irish KerryGold taste better, salted or unsalted, than Kirkland from New Zeland. While NZ has a high standards, the Ireland too. And UE regulates dairy farms much better than US. I don't bother buying any cheese from US. Non-organic european cheese is much cleaner, IMO, plus all of them taste better too. Unfortunatelly both butters are not organic. Any organic US butter sucks, none of them has golden color and none of them spread well, unless they brought to a room temp
It was my pleasure. Some credit is due to US dairy farms that go the distance. Usually they are small scale and local. They do the right thing. Cheers!
Hi George, have you tried Zeal Creamery organic, grass-fed butter? Not available everywhere, but our family buys it at Sprouts and Fresh Market, and it's pretty good stuff. It's from New Zealand like the Costco grass-fed and Lewis butters, but it also has USDA Organic certification that neither Costco or Lewis has. We're huge Costco fans, and we do think New Zealand has awesome dairy, but we've heard the Costco grass-fed butter comes from a New Zealand dairy that was financially struggling and subsequently purchased by a giant Chinese firm, and we still have memories of Chinese dairy contamination issues that we can't clear from our minds...
@@AwareHouseChef don't get me wrong, to my knowledge, just being owned by a giant Chinese firm (Yili bought Westland in 2019) doesn't mean there's anything at all wrong with the butter. We just get concerned that it bought a dairy that was previously struggling. They've turned it around and are doing very well now, selling butter to Costco and Walmart. But we've seen in the past what can happen when Chinese firms run into cost pressures (and selling to Costco and Walmart is probably very competitive)...maybe they aren't able to maintain the same quality standards. Anyway, we're in NJ and have found Zeal at Sprouts in NJ and PA. We agree with your other video where you like the salt in Kerry - salt does make it better! Zeal sells organic butter in both salted and unsalted.
I wanted to know this too! So is Kerry Gold officially PFAS free in all states nationwide? Do they have butter sticks or just a big butter and the tubs?
George, we switched from Kerrygold to Vital Farms which is all pasture raised. Another expensive premium butter we use for certain dishes. We had no idea about Kirkland because we don’t even look into their dairy. We were at Costco today picking up my new glasses. Great prices btw. We’ll try the Kirkland and compare to Vital Farms. We also like Horizon Organic and Vermont Creamery. Heck, we’ll try all four. Make that five. Lewis road is at Trader Joe’s. Just love to learn something new at my age. Jim
I love it… “Some” studies “suggest…” which means “Most” studies don’t “suggest” any such thing, , and the “some” studies that do, show nothing that rises to the level of “evidence.” Please don’t perpetuate food myths under the guise of science.
@@thekochdieselskils5506 sorry but “ all studies suggest” would be a lie. Did you even bother to read the links to the studies in the description? Please try not to be so judgmental until you do your own research.
Always love your T-shirts ❤️ Great choices every time and people notice it I love the video edists too, they have improved so much. Porky pig 🐷 perfect 😂 Are these added by you or your son?
Oh I am so sorry! Please check back tomorrow. They were posted to another version of this video that I had to delete. I will upload them later. My apologies
Your videos & set continue to look more beautiful with time. I still don't eat dairy for health reasons, but I do cook with/serve dairy, so it's great to learn about butter from you. Wow, this was a great video!
Thank you so much ! I appreciate the encouragement. Cheers!
I buy raw milk and cream and make my own butter. It's amazing and coming from someone who is lactose intolerant, I don't have any stomach issues anymore! So look for raw grass fed milk, if you can, and always use grass fed and finished dairy and meats. If the cows are grass fed and finished, then they are eating grass 365. Now you might encounter a situation, like Kerrygold, who does allow the cows to eat grass, but then they finish on grain. Now the issue with that will be to make sure, if they do finish on grain, make sure it's not GMO grains! So just look for raw or 100 percent grass fed and finished! Avoid conventional at all costs! Just my opinion, God Bless Chef and keep up the good work!
Thank you! I appreciate your comment! Raw milk butter is the best!
In colder climates cows are taken in for the winter and therefor do not have access to grass
The higher the fat, the lower the lactose.
I seen lactose intolerant people get away with drinking half and half
The one important thing you failed to mention is ease of purchase. Kerry Gold is readily available at Walmart. Almost every city and small town in the USA has a Walmart. Lewis Road Creamery is not readily available in Kansas. I realize the world does not revolve around Kansas. But I can't buy it if no one is selling it. LRC website indicates it is available at the Wichita Kansas Whole Foods Market. But the WFM website says "this product is not available in Kansas." However...thank you for this review.
From what I see it is a available to purchase online. Maybe that will change as they are emerging. All the best
A farmer near me advertising 100% grass fed, grass finished feeds hay in the winter
Good stuff. Cheers!
I feed hay in the summer, the grass all dies off
Hi! I would think it would be normal that taste of butter changes. I would imagine all depends of what the cow eats and the time of the year the butter was made. I would assume it’s like cheese.
I guess. Kerry gold stays about the same all the time. That’s why I wondered. Cheers!
Who watched this in 2024
A class action lawsuit was filed against Kerrygold for false, misleading, and deceptive marketing. At times of the year, Kerrygold cows are fed genetically modified grains (including corn and soy) instead of grass. Some of the lawsuits were dismissed because the plaintiff couldn’t prove receipts of the amount purchased and the subsequent damage. Kerrygold is not from 100% grass-fed cow’s dairy.
Thx for the info. I'm so upset about this, not because it's fed grains because it might be unavoidable during winter, but the that it's fed GMO grains 😡. I would never HV bought it if i knew. I'm returning then to Costco!
Yep boycott them and class action lawsuit for all our hurt feelings
Yea I think it’s 80% grass fed and in the non gmo website it’s verified that kerrigold butter is non gmo. 😅
the grass that grows rapidly during the spring is usually most nutritious so it might taste different and have a darker yellow color as well as far as i know.
Thank you!
Do you think one could make home made butter as good as the 3 major brands?
Thanks,
Bill
Better. I did in one of the videos at the end of this video. Especially with a little aged raw milk. It’s phenomenal
As someone who’s new to the grass fed milk and butter game I was previously using Vital Farms grass fed unsalted butter but until I’m able to find Maple Hills’ grass fed unsalted butter I’ll be using Kerrygold’s. For salted grass fed butter I was using Maple Hill but when I went to Whole Foods and saw the Lewis Road Creamery NZ salted butter I grabbed it and will NEVER look back!! God it’s SOOOOOOO DAMN GOOD!!! Lol It’s worth every single cent!!
@@peterstachura8595 super-happy you shared that! All the best!
As far as why some cows can't be 100% pasture grass fed ... winter.
In many places where cows do well (Wisconsin, Vermont, et c.) the pastures are covered in snow for several months; and cows can't graze outside. They still have to eat something ... the dairy farmer will choose what they feel is the best winter feed for their cows. ["Best" is an opinion. For some farmers it's grain, but there are other feeds.]
I grew up in a "margarine is better" household (1960s & 70s) and though I know better now and only buy butter, I use very little out of habit. I try to buy something tasty and healthful ... but given my consumption, I want individually wrapped 1/4 lb sticks, so I can freeze most of my butter until I use it up.
Thank you so much for sharing. All the best!
Dr Gundry says that cows have muted to casin 1. If you can find a farm that has guernsey cows, still are casin A2. Goat milk, or sheeps milk are casin 2. I got goat cheese and didn’t have problems like with the cow milk cheese. Kerrygold at my supermarket is $4.99. I like it, also I don’t think I would be able to get the other one. Gundry says allot of people are not lactose intolerant, it’s the casin A1 cows milk.
I’m not sure. That is a pretty big claim. Lewis road reached out and told me that their dairy is casein 2. They are available online. All the best
How can I purchase some, Lewis Road Creamery Butter? Haven’t ever seen of it in any stores.
Please check online. They do not have a direct link from the manufacturer that I can offer you.
I was hoping you would do another butter video. Perfect!
My pleasure!
Hell, I'm just sittin' here trying to figure out how ya got butter to eat grass.
I find grass fed butter highly over-rated and lacking in flavor. For tasty butter, try Trader Joe's cultured butter.
@@corsair6 so there is a big difference between the taste of cultured butter and non. You can have excellent cultured grass-fed butter. This would not only give you incredible flavor but also all of the health benefits. Cheers.
Have you tried Truly grass-fed brand it is 95%?
@@GermanVazquez-r1w I have not. Thanks for the tip!
Now...where can I find Lewis Road Creamery here in Florida?
@@ronbloomberg take a look at their website. I also believe they ship. Cheers!
not sure whether u can source it, but u should try Westgold salted butter, also from new zealand. it tastes vastly different to the typical danish or french butters that i am used to. it tastes like the sea, and it makes sense considering the cows are raised on pastures right next to the sea. it is excellent when cooked in a seafood pasta. I will prefer a french butter for bread tho.
Thank you ! I am very much looking forward to trying it!
I wanted to dash out and get some, but it looks like it's only available about three hours from here. and no way to order online! I will be looking for it. I will be trying goat milk butter in a few weeks. Thanks, for the great tips!
My pleasure and as always I truly appreciate your encouragement. In new you’re I typed in Lewis Road Creamery and there was a store that sold it. I wonder why they don’t ship to you? Maybe they’re breaking out into the US market now. All the best!
You need to try BANNER BUTTER out of Atlanta Georgia. Stellar taste!, about 5 dollars for a 5oz round
I will keep an eye out for it. Hopefully it’s available outside of Georgia. Thanks for the tip!
@@AwareHouseChefI was in Atlanta Labor Day weekend, and I loved the butter so much I made sure to freeze some and bring it back to the West Coast
Does anybody know if Lewis road creamery foil wrapper has the same "PFAS issue as Kerry gold ?
For me, the best butter is Isigny Saints Mere, from France. It’s common enough to be found in most decent supermarkets. The grass fed butter has a pretty strong flavor and I love it.
Thank you!
French butters have a higher fat content than US one by default which changes their taste profile. Isigny Sainte-Mère has my favorite Camembert cheese and their cultured butter is like a like a creamy Brie.
Salivating
I like comparisons like this, but I think it's best to not include products found only at 1 vendor (aka Costco or BJs). Sticking with what most grocery stores could carry would be most helpful to more people.
Thank you. Duly noted!
Thank you 😊 Lots to learn. 🎉
My pleasure!
thank you for the video and the experiment with milk solids. I definitely agree that Irish KerryGold taste better, salted or unsalted, than Kirkland from New Zeland. While NZ has a high standards, the Ireland too. And UE regulates dairy farms much better than US. I don't bother buying any cheese from US. Non-organic european cheese is much cleaner, IMO, plus all of them taste better too. Unfortunatelly both butters are not organic. Any organic US butter sucks, none of them has golden color and none of them spread well, unless they brought to a room temp
It was my pleasure. Some credit is due to US dairy farms that go the distance. Usually they are small scale and local. They do the right thing. Cheers!
I too, personally find that Kirkland's butter to be very budget friendly melt an and delicious
Thank you for sharing!
Kirkland butter is not good because their wrapper has the same ‘forever chemicals’ such as the Kerry Gold.
That issue at least where I live was addressed through a massive recall
if you want to taste real butter you have to go to Egypt and taste butter from water buffalo milk it’s white no comparison to any caw butter
I would love to !
Hi George, have you tried Zeal Creamery organic, grass-fed butter? Not available everywhere, but our family buys it at Sprouts and Fresh Market, and it's pretty good stuff. It's from New Zealand like the Costco grass-fed and Lewis butters, but it also has USDA Organic certification that neither Costco or Lewis has. We're huge Costco fans, and we do think New Zealand has awesome dairy, but we've heard the Costco grass-fed butter comes from a New Zealand dairy that was financially struggling and subsequently purchased by a giant Chinese firm, and we still have memories of Chinese dairy contamination issues that we can't clear from our minds...
Gosh I hope that is not true. I will look into that butter! May I ask what state you’re from? Want to see if I can get it in New York
@@AwareHouseChef don't get me wrong, to my knowledge, just being owned by a giant Chinese firm (Yili bought Westland in 2019) doesn't mean there's anything at all wrong with the butter. We just get concerned that it bought a dairy that was previously struggling. They've turned it around and are doing very well now, selling butter to Costco and Walmart. But we've seen in the past what can happen when Chinese firms run into cost pressures (and selling to Costco and Walmart is probably very competitive)...maybe they aren't able to maintain the same quality standards. Anyway, we're in NJ and have found Zeal at Sprouts in NJ and PA. We agree with your other video where you like the salt in Kerry - salt does make it better! Zeal sells organic butter in both salted and unsalted.
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Do you have a Video with List of the Best PFAS FREE Grass Fed Butters ?
So if I am not mistakien, after last years massive law suit, I believe that in New York as well as other states PFAS are banned in all packaging
@@AwareHouseChef well that’s good 😅 Thank u
I wanted to know this too! So is Kerry Gold officially PFAS free in all states nationwide? Do they have butter sticks or just a big butter and the tubs?
What about smart balance his healthy
Are you asking “what about smart balance is healthy?” Or “what about smart balance? Is it healthy?”
Yes
Can you do a review on cultured butter?
Thank you for your suggestion! I will research
Thanks Chef!
My pleasure!
If Kerrygold was anywhere near 95%, I’m pretty sure they would be bragging about it.
True.
I was a professional taste tester and a blind taste test would have been better to start.
George, we switched from Kerrygold to Vital Farms which is all pasture raised. Another expensive premium butter we use for certain dishes. We had no idea about Kirkland because we don’t even look into their dairy. We were at Costco today picking up my new glasses. Great prices btw. We’ll try the Kirkland and compare to Vital Farms. We also like Horizon Organic and Vermont Creamery. Heck, we’ll try all four. Make that five. Lewis road is at Trader Joe’s. Just love to learn something new at my age. Jim
Thank you for sharing! The Costco brand has improved significantly in taste. Thanks for reaching out!
I love it… “Some” studies “suggest…” which means “Most” studies don’t “suggest” any such thing, , and the “some” studies that do, show nothing that rises to the level of “evidence.” Please don’t perpetuate food myths under the guise of science.
@@thekochdieselskils5506 sorry but “ all studies suggest” would be a lie. Did you even bother to read the links to the studies in the description? Please try not to be so judgmental until you do your own research.
Always love your T-shirts ❤️
Great choices every time and people notice it
I love the video edists too, they have improved so much.
Porky pig 🐷 perfect 😂
Are these added by you or your son?
I do all my editing. My sons are busy with their lives. Cheers!
@@AwareHouseChef
Then you are a comedic genius 😄
how do you find the food studys for your vids
Oh I am so sorry! Please check back tomorrow. They were posted to another version of this video that I had to delete. I will upload them later. My apologies
@@AwareHouseChef thx
You are all set. I just updated the information under the description