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Always loved butter and hated margarine. I often used to gross people out with how much butter I'd put on potatoes or bread to the point where I'd only use the
by stormdennis 5y ago
Always loved butter and hated margarine. I often used to gross people out with how much butter I'd put on potatoes or bread to the point where I'd only use the amount I wanted to in private. It's great today to know that I was right to like it.
- jfritsch1984 5y agoI don't know. It's too early to decide. Food science is really hard. You don't have any good measurements, just questionnaires and people lying in them or completely miss-judging their consumption. There are some exceptions but even then (ward experiments, controlled feeding studies, etc.) you often have very low number os participants and other limitations.
- stormdennis 5y agoThey've done pretty good studies with rats and mice I believe. I think that htey discovered that the best foods to make them obese were the ones that are recommended for a healthy diet for humans!
- bambax 5y agoSteamed potatoes + butter + salt is one of the best things in life. So is a good baguette with butter. I don't eat butter every day and usually cook sautés in olive oil. But no more butter would be utterly sad.
- stormdennis 5y agoYes, a kindred spirit! One thing though, I've heard that you should not cook with Olive Oil. It's burn temperature is too low and burning it turns the fats in it from good to bad ones. Olive oil great for dressings of course. Lard, butter or ghee better for frying with apparently.
- joeberon 5y agoUnfortunately, in Europe (at least in the UK and Germany) butter seems to have skyrocketed in price over the last few months, whereas margarine has stayed the same.
- stormdennis 5y agoFood costs so little of an average western income. I'd pay a lot more for butter than I do, for all animal products actually, in the hope it would mean better animal welfare.
- joeberon 5y agoI think you'd be naive to expect that an increase in the price of butter would be related to increased animal welfare
- pjerem 5y agoWhatever you eat, as long as you are feeling good and are in good shape and in good health, you were right to eat what you want. Butter has been eaten everyday by people who died from cholesterol and by people who lived for 100+ years. Nothing we eat is inherently bad. It’s the mix and proportions that can be bad. The real issue is that with industrial food, we don’t control (or even feel) the mix anymore. In France, in « Bretagne », butter and fat is everywhere in the traditional food since centuries and that never caused the same issues as industrial food. Because when you know what you eat, you eat the right proportions.
- stormdennis 5y agoLove French cooking and the French aren't fat nor the Bretons either I'd imagine!