{"id":413668,"date":"2021-08-27T07:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/origin-www.tasteofhome.com\/?p=413668"},"modified":"2024-09-22T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T15:41:42","slug":"best-butter-taste-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/article\/best-butter-taste-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Very Best Butter Brands According to Our Test Kitchen Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"When you take baking as seriously as our Test Kitchen team does, you inevitably start to get into the most minute details regarding ingredients. In our kitchens at\u00a0Taste Recipes<\/em> HQ, it's not uncommon to hear our pros debating the pros and cons of canned pumpkin<\/a> or different techniques for making the flakiest biscuits<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOne of the hottest topics in our Test Kitchen, though, is which brand makes the best butter.\r\n\r\nButter is the backbone of so many baking recipes, so using the most delicious brand is crucial for successful bakes. So what's the very best? Our culinary team put nine brands to the test.\r\n\r\nButter keeps well in the fridge, but can you\u00a0freeze<\/em>\u00a0butter?<\/a>\r\n\r\n[dam-video dam-id=\"49501\"]\r\n

What Our Test Kitchen Looks for in the Best Butter<\/h2>\r\nButter is an incredibly difficult ingredient to judge. With just two ingredients\u2014cream and salt\u2014it's more challenging to decipher the subtle differences between brands. It all comes down to the proportion of salt to cream and the quality of the dairy itself. Of course, our Test Kitchen was up to the challenge. When searching for the best butter, our experts considered the following:\r\n