Saturday, 10 October 2009
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Daily Q: Butter or Margarine?
To some (myself included) margarine is usually a compromise, something to use only when butter is unavailable or dairy isn't suitable in a recipe. But the two do have different tastes and qualities, and some people genuinely prefer margarine, be it as a spread, as a cooking agent or in a recipe. And then there's the issue of heart health, with margarine being free of cholesterol.
Which do you prefer? Butter or margarine?
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Comments (44)
Neither nor. They're both bad for you, plus they mask the taste of whatever you put it on.
I prefer margarine, however if I am having toast, french bread or bread cakes I prefer having butter.
I'd like to add one thing: dietary cholesterol has almost no effect on your total cholesterol levels. These levels are affected by saturated and trans fats (which both butter and margarine are loaded with), not dietary cholesterol (cholesterol is actually so dense it's not efficiently digestible).
I say this as I'm an ovo-vegetarian (99% of the time), yet my plasma cholesterol levels hover around 120 to 130 on average, and I eat eggs religiously.
Either or.
Depends on the food. Although for us it's usually butter or spread, not margarine. Butter for baking, spread for everything else.
No competition, butter wins hands down for me. Slightly salted butter. Lurpack preferably.
butter
Butter for Baking. Magarine for Toast and other stuff.
I always use margarine in baking; it's cheaper and tastes the same.
I don't use butter at all as a spread. Things just taste better plain.
Butter.
Neither.
Depends on the dish. Sometimes Margarine just works better. A lot of people don't realize that the famous Kahuku Garlic Shrimp dish that everyone eats on the North Shore of O'ahu is actually Margarine based.
Generally though, I prefer Butter -- Fresh Butter. If it's a Butter I'm eating just-as-is, I prefer Plugra.
i use both... for example, i have to have butter on a baked potato, but margarine on toast...
Butter! There's flavor and it's actually real. Margarine is good for those trying to cut back, but as I heard it's one molecule away from being plastic, I would just eat my toast plain if I were dieting.
I prefer margarine, but butter is ok too. I loooooove it on fresh warm bread. Yum :)
I can't decide, they are both good.
Salted butter, ftw.
I prefer margarine because it is supposed to be better for you than butter. However, I personally do not detect a taste or any other noticeable difference. And I don't just stick with one brand of margarine. Whatever happens to be cheaper at the time.
There must be a taste difference, considering so many people seem to say that there is. But, I can't taste the difference, and neither can my roommate, or anyone I grew up with. Weird. o.O;
Margarine for everything but cookies.
Butter all the way! :)
Smart Balance.
Butter.
butter. margine might not have as much fat or cholesterol, but its all chemicals. id rather eat natural food, not processed plastic.
I've never tried margarine before (my family is too proud of old European traditions to buy processed goods from the supermarkets), so I usually use butter, if ever. If I cook, I try to replace butter with olive oil, though.
Ew. Margargine is like...one molecule away from being plastic. Ick. I don't like using either. But margarine is definitely out in my standards.
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