OK all you cooks out there, tell the truth...

[wildhorses]

margarine or butter?

[Ptah]

1. Butter, if I'm baking.

[wildhorses]

6. I love that pic...

I envy you the watermelon teaset:hi:



cos the smilie won't smile unless it has a colon front and back:patriot:

[Ptah]

11. It is cute, isn't it?

[wildhorses]

15. my dear Ptah (with apologies to CalPeg)

it is absolutely delightful and, I am thinking I must have one! Where ever did you find it?

I have made the monumental decision at this precise moment to start collecting teasets!

They soothe my soul.

[Ptah]

22. My daughter went on a theme-based decorating spree.

She found these at a thrift shop.
There are watermelons all over the kitchen.

[jobycom]

2. ghee or oil. Sometimes SmartBeat, if it's low temp.

[wildhorses]

10. excuse me, what is ghee?

:shrug:

[jobycom]

13. It's like clarified butter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee

Ghee (Hindi घी, from Sanskrit ghṛta घृत "sprinkled" Urdu ; گهى) is a type of clarified butter important in Indian cuisine and Pakistani cuisine. Ghee is made by simmering unsalted butter in a large pot, until its water has boiled off and its protein has settled to the bottom. The clarified butter is then spooned off, taking care not to disturb the milk solids on the bottom of the pan. This method of preparation gives ghee a somewhat nutty aroma that Western clarified butter does not have.

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It tastes cleaner than butter, and doesn't burn the same way.

[wildhorses]

24. now you know why I had to do a dedication to you ALL

you make me smarter:yourock:

[LeftyMom]

3. I use Earth Balance non-dairy butter substitute

It's very good.

[wildhorses]

4. I am taking that to mean that you are "other"

:hi:

[LeftyMom]

7. I didn't vote

I guess technically it's margarine, but margarine= transfats and tastes like ass, and this stuff is healthy as oils go and tasty. So I wasn't sure and didn't vote.

[wildhorses]

12. well, if diebold is tabulating it wouldn't matter anyway

:patriot:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear wildhorses!

I no longer use butter, ever.........

I use Smart Balance; it tastes good, and cooks excellently well!

BTW, I voted "other."


:shrug:

[wildhorses]

9. thanks for voting...

I bet you are a great cook!:hi:

[Broken_Hero]

8. butter

mostly...but honestly, I really don't care which one I use, my wife makes me get butter though, so I usually cook with it...but I don't use butter often in my cooking practices, unless i'm baking...

[wildhorses]

18. I am confused...if all you have is butter then how can you use

anything else but butter?



hey...but butter, butt butter, butter butt...where is this going? A new pet name for loved ones?

[Broken_Hero]

21. we have margarine too

because I usually dont' pay attention when I buy groceries half the time...and margarine is usually cheaper, we got both, actually I lie, we got three kinds...butter, margarine, that 0 calorie butter/artifical spray crap....to me its all the same...

[wildhorses]

25. following this line of reasoning...I deduce that to you

butter=crap:P

[u4ic]

14. Other meaning...

margarine or butter, only the latter. The former will never do.

However, for sauteeing/cooking - I use mostly grape seed oil, or for my tasty roast garlic and rosemary potatoes, I use 1/2 olive oil and half butter.

For no-heating oils, (ie a salad dressing, or in already cooked soups), I use hemp oil. :hi:

[wildhorses]

33. hemp oil?? I MUST have some of this...

I am contacting my uh....er....um....you know....my deliveryman first thing:P

[u4ic]

40. Heck,

I buy it at the grocery store here! :D

It has a nicer taste than flax oil. No fun side effects, unfortunately - except for smooth skin. :hi:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

16. Butter. Or if I can, then Olive Oil.

[Nicole]

17. Butter n/t

[reyd reid reed]

19. Depends what I'm doing..

If I'm baking, butter. If I'm making a sandwich or something, some kind of spread. Country Crock or Promise or something.

If I'm using it for...

Oh. Nemmind.

[wildhorses]

34. recreational activities....

:evilgrin:

[reyd reid reed]

38. Yeah. That.

"Recreational activities"

Then olive oil's better. Unless, of course, there's chocolate syrup handy.

:evilgrin:

[trackfan]

20. Butter, aka Johnny Boudreau and the Rams' Band

[bicentennial_baby]

23. Butter...yep

Nothing else...

[Breeze54]

26. Margarine is disgusting!

Oil + H2O + yellow food coloring = :puke:

Synthetic edible fat! I hate 'cheese-food' too!

[Robeson]

27. Olive Oil.

[crim son]

28. Crap. I hit the wrong one... posted "Robb is NOT a dingbat"

when of course that's a dirty lie :evilgrin:

[Richard Steele]

30. I was WONDERING who did that!

And, for the record: there's not an edible substance
on earth that isn't better with BUTTER!

My sweetie just this evening brought home half a carribean
bean & butter tortilla for the DickSteele KitchenLab to analyze
and reverse-engineer!

Preliminary tests show that it contains beans and butter,
and that it is very yummmy!

[crim son]

31. I am so in agreement with you on the butter question.

I used marg for years until I realized it was a putrid substance. I "manage" my consumption of butter but I definitely don't skip it! It's one of the great pleasures of life IMHO.

[wildhorses]

35. moi??? tell a lie???

but, honestly I have proof...I knew I should have bookmarked that thread x(

[In_The_Wind]

29. yummy butter

Maybe I should raid the fridge and go to bed.
I think I'm winding down but I am a bit hungry.

:hi:

[wildhorses]

37. good idea...maybe if I eat a little something I could sleep

nitey nite:hug:

[lutefisk]

32. Wisconsin didn't repeal its prohibition on margarine until 1967

We used to drive across the Wisconsin border to buy margarine. There was a time when one could not buy margarine in Wisconsin (the Dairy State, you know), so my family would buy it in Iowa and smuggle it back into Wisconsin. I still use it to make Chex mix, but otherwise- it's butter.

http://www.margarine.org/historyofmargarine.html

edit: Or maybe we'd smuggle it in from Minnesota or Michigan, I'm not sure. In any event, we were bad-ass margarine smugglers- a pound at a time.

[wildhorses]

36. just goes to show you...that when something is outlawed

only outlaws will have it:P


know the difference between outlaws and in laws?


























































































outlaws are wanted:yoiks:

[Deja Q]

39. I use neither.

I found no difference in my usual hamburger helper dishes...

Fortunately, I just grill up 2 cups of vegetables and broil one chicken patty; it's a healthy dietas it is.

Now if I'd only exercise more consistently...

[GOPisEvil]

41. Unsalted butter, so I can control the amount of salt.

Organic, if possible. :thumbsup:

[grannylib]

42. Butter all the way, Baby...cooking, eating, whatever...the only thing I

don't use it for is cake mix...I always use Duncan Hines, but NOT the butter recipe. It tends to burn too easily. And I can't have burned cake under my homemade frosting!
That would NEVER do.
:-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. Margarine will never, ever, ever enter my home

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. I always use butter.

Always. :hi: