Why is butter so expensive?

Question

What are the names of some inexpensive,good quality butters?

Answer 1

hello frend,
butter is churned out from cream. cream is separated from milk. Milk is having an average of 4-8% fat. That means 1 litre of milk consists of 4-8 grams of fat or cream. The cream will have upto 80% fat usually 40-60% only, it depends on the cream separator. From that cream we can produce butter by churing. Butter will have almost 98% fat. So if we need 1kg of butter, we have to have 20 litres of milk. you check it out with your area milk price. If u have any more doubt let me know.........i hope u are clear now.....

Answer 2

I think butter is a lot higher priced than other spreads because it is a genuine dairy product. It is not hard to make but milk comes from animals which are more expensive to raise than vegetables. Vegetable oils, the source of margarine, or synthetic spreads made in a lab, are cheap in comparison.

Another thing is that butter is literally the cream of the crop. It is the fattiest, choicest part of the milk and there is less of it than any other milk product. There is no analogy that really equates but if you think of quality of cuts of meat, you have extremely high quality, high purity and then you have lower quality and less purity. So if hamburger is the equivalent of skim milk, then prime rib is butter.

Butter is turning out to be healthier than other stuff though, when used in moderation, because it is pure and natural, as opposed to other spreads...which is the way it goes for ALL real vs fake foods. So butter is less expensive in the long term, when you are talking about long term health problems.

Butter is one of those things that doesn't vary much brand to brand, presuming it is made in sanitary conditions, out of pure ingredients. What else can you do to it? About the only things you can do are to whip it, making it spreadable, or salt it, if they are still going to call it butter. In the US, the FDA has taken care of that by holding all food producers to the same standards, so violations are the only thing that change quality and those companies, no matter what brand, don't last long. All this to say, you can buy the cheapest butter and not the brand name butter...with no compromise in quality.

Answer 3

Come to Ireland! We have great butter at good prices ;) Kerrygold is the most famous

Answer 4

I think the price goes up every year around the holidays when the baking begins.