Submitted by danasaur0109 t3_z4l7yf in pittsburgh
Hey! Very specific but my bf has gotten into butter recently. For his birthday, I was hoping into put together a box of 5-6 different butters.
Maybe some from europe, some local. Before I drive around the city peeking into every specialty grocery store - anyone have leads of where I might find a good selection?
Looks like Chantal’s has at least two kinds.
You can also order Kate’s Butter from Maine at Whole Foods. I grew up in Maine and it’s my favorite butter. They treat their cows really well. You can taste the difference between their butter and mass produced stuff.
Grew up in NH, close to the Maine border. My mom brings me 2-3 boxes of Kate’s every time I see her.
Kate’s is the best!
Oooh! Perfect, will include. Thanks for the tip!
Get the Beurre De Baratte from there. It's fantastic and its pressed with a cow on the top when you open it up which is fun.
The people at Chantal's are very friendly. If you visit there and ask, I'm sure they could recommend a few other places to look, too!
Current favorite butter is the Rodolphe Le Meunier’s Beurre de Baratte that Harvie’s is stocking.
I am very excited to try this butter, we just got it in our box.
Make him some homemade cultured butter. It’s easy and delicious.
I think doing this together will be a project in our future! Looking for some cookbooks, etc too to go with.
Squirrel Hill Market (@ Pittsburgh Honey)
East End Food Co-Op
Came here to say the Squirrel Hill Market. Isigny Ste. Mere roll butter, Rodolphe Le Munier, Plugra, Presidente, a brand from England I can’t recall, and some damn fine Beaver Meadows courtesy of Marburger Dairy.
I like some of the European butters too. Icelandic (Smjör), Finnish, even some of the Irish kinds. I like to find them at Whole Foods. I know they’re widely available and not so niche, but they’re a treat for me
Ooh great! I wasn't sure if WF would have things - but sounds like its worth the trip.
I have been enjoying a new Zealand butter that's on sale at whole foods. I'd stay away from the Minerva, I find it to be too sweet.
ETA Lewis Road Creamery is the NZ butter, it's excellent. If you can get Insigny St. Mere do so
If you leave the city and go towards pretty much any of the various Amish communities they'll sell rolls of homemade butter. Always delicious
I see a lot of people recommending Amish butter, just a heads up (I live in very rural Butler County now and horse drawn buggies pass my house daily), unless you go to a farm market or to their home to buy butter from the lady of the house, most of that rolled butter you see in stores is not real Amish butter, it's just rolled Amish style. And you have to be careful in Amish tourist traps like over in Lancaster, some Amish people are not so honest and will buy bulk butter from Sam's Club, bring it home and reform it with rustic looking packaging.
There are more butter afficinados than I realized...🤔
Mediterra cafe has two or three imported French butters
I never knew “fancy butter” was a thing, and now I am so interested
The squirrel hill market has imported French butters
Wholey's in the strip sells Amish butter
Moes in Sarver has smoked butter
My parents say giant eagle has kerrigold and Amish roll butter and trader Joe's has plugras.
He's been buying kerrygold in bulk at costco - which is really what started this adventure. Thanks for the tips! I wasn't sure TJ's would have anything.
I wish Big Bird had that butter roll more reliably.
I don’t know if it helps, but I think a good way to really impress him would be to look up some compound butter recipes and make him some. It’s not difficult and really livens up dishes.
I just cold smoked some butter. I’m going to use it in cookies. Nice subtle Smokey taste.
This sounds really interesting! Tell me more!!
I cold smoke cheese every year for my “man” gifts with friends. Last few years I would cold smoke bars of chocolate and then let it rest for a few weeks in butcher paper in the fridge. Then crush it up and make chocolate chip cookies with it. While good, the smoke flavor was inconsistent.
This year I decided to smoke sticks of butter and make cookies with that. I froze sticks of butter and then cold smoked them for 2 hours with apple wood. They just spent a week resting in butcher paper in the fridge. I vacuum sealed them last night and will use the butter to make cookies.
Will this be about the Iranian yogurt?
Shop and Save has Amish butter, too.
I find the goat butter at Whole Foods to be a wonderful variety.
Be cautious of "Amish" butter. Much of it seems to be regular butter to me, and almost none of it is grass fed (which I can readily tell).
You’ve already gotten good tips. As someone who gifted her husband an assortment of butters from Whole Foods and the Norpro butter keeper for Valentine’s Day, I just had to show my appreciation for the topic of butter gifting 😊
Try Kiev and Nataliya on Murray Ave in Greenfield. I got President and another high fat butter from both of them
Been meaning to check out both of them for a while. Good?
That French salty butter and make some honey butter too. That shit is da bomb
One might say you're look for exotic butters
Aldi's!
Wow I always just buy plain unsalted. Looks like I need to explore the world of butter… yum!
mrsrtz t1_ixrkqen wrote
Penn Mac has a couple different kinds.