Spreadable vs "normal" butter

[kingcook]

Any opinions?

Normal butter tastes spankin' gawjus, but is difficult to spread.

Speadable butter, on the other hand, is spreadable but not as nice as normal butter.

It can make all the difference to that all important first meal of the day (4 slices of toast).

[DaveB]

Don't keep butter in the fridge. Stick it in a butter dish and leave it in the kitchen. Voila, proper butter you can spread.

[Cliphead]

Don't keep butter in the fridge. Stick it in a butter dish and leave it in the kitchen. Voila, proper butter you can spread.

+1

[Runs With Scissors]

Don't keep butter in the fridge. Stick it in a butter dish and leave it in the kitchen. Voila, proper butter you can spread.

+1

[formant]

I only use butter for cooking and baking, so it's "normal" butter all the way for me.

[darmstadt]

More to the point, is spreadable better or worse for those Last Tango moments?

Low fat, unsalted butter, as it has less impurities therefore causing less risk of infection, is best but for a really smooth experience I would suggest an extra virgin olive oil...

[SimonMac]

I work the real butter on the side of a dish with a knife, the friction heats up the butter making it easier to spread

[Scrag Meister]

Spreadable products are generally not pure butter.

Read the label.

Whole butter is better but spreadable is passable.

[VectraMan]

Shouldn't that be "Spreadable" vs normal butter? Because "spreadable" butter is anything but spreadable from the fridge, and if you have to leave it out you may as well by the regular kind.

Nobody's mentioned the "I can't believe it's not" variety.

[kingcook]

I work the real butter on the side of a dish with a knife, the friction heats up the butter making it easier to spread

Will give that a go, and as others have said - leave normal butter out of the fridge! (- would this make the butter go off?)

BTW I've tried dumping a big splodge of butter on hot toast (straight out the toaster) in the hope that the rising heat will make the butter more compliant - doesn't seem to work that well.