PBS Test Kitchen -- Taste Tests Premium Unsalted Butter
It's a Slippery Slope Determining Which Butter is Better
The Brands Compared
The taste test for premium unsalted butter compared the following brands:
- Beurre Echire
- Vermont Butter & Cheese Company Cultured Butter
- Land 'O Lakes Unsalted Butter
- Lurpak Imported Danish Butter
The PBS Test Kitchen pros presented the premium unsalted butter on toast to perform the taste test.
A Few Facts About Premium Unsalted Butter
According to PBS Test Kitchen there are guidelines for fat content in butter, "The USDA requires 80 percent butterfat; most European-style butters range from 81 to 86 percent." Cultured cream is another factor that affects the taste of butter. The cultures give the butter a tang that regular butter does not usually have. Premium butters can cost two to three times as much as regular butter that we buy at the supermarket. Premium butters are sold at high-end supermarkets.
The Results of PBS Test Kitchen Taste Test -- Premium Unsalted Butter
In the premium unsalted butter taste test, the PBS Test Kitchen found that the Lurpak Imported Danish Butter was the winner with the taste testers. Host Christopher Kimball liked the runner-up butter best, and he liked the winning Danish butter second.
The runner-up was the Vermont Butter & Cheese Company Cultured Butter. The Land O' Lakes butter came in third with Beurre Echire, the most expensive, a dead last.
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