Butter vs. margarine: Which do you prefer? or maybe neither?

[senior chef]

For health reasons I never use margarine. It clogs arteries.

 

[Tish]

Margarine, definitely.

 

[David777]

Have been buying and consuming Imperial Margarine for years though as someone with very limited cooking skills, doesn't have many situations for using margarine. Mainly an addition with salt on some cooked vegetables. Never noticed much difference between the two.

 

[Remy]

Well, I stopped using palm oil about 5 years ago. Cut out a lot of stuff. Sniff Earth Balance Margarine. There are some palm free ones in blocks, Trader Joe's has their own brand either and I have read you can freeze it.

 

[Lee]

Good quality butter. You pay a little more but I'm worth it

 

[Llynn]

I never talk about my butter/margarine preference. I don't want that information spread around.

 

[debodun]

I only use butter in a recipe that calls for it. A pound of butter can last me a few years (I freeze what I don't use). For ordinary use, I buy Smart Balance.

 

[Jamala]

Always butter.My favourites are Devonshire butter (UK) Kerrygold (Irish) or Lurpak (Danish).

 

[Pinky]

Rarely do I use either, but, it is butter for us. We switched over from margarine, several years ago.

 

[Pappy]

We use, I can’t believe it’s not butter, and it sure isn’t butter. Sometimes we get the real thing though. Question…when I was a child, my grandma always left butter, covered, on the table. We refrigerate ours. Which is correct?

 

[terry123]

I seem to recall that several years back some study said that margarine was unhealthy so we switched to Land of Lakes butter with canola oil which makes it somewhat easier to spread......pretty darn good.

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I use this too!