Types and shapes of butter

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

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KITCHENDAO Airtight Butter Dish with Lid and Knife Spreader for Countertop and Refrigerator, Keep Butter Fresh, Easy Scoop, Dishwasher Safe, Plastic Butter Keeper Tray for West/ East Coast Butter

So are you west coast or east coast butter?

 

[msmofet]

So are you went coast or east coast butter?

I don't understand that. LOL

 

[TastyReuben]

So are you went coast or east coast butter?

Knowing the state she lives in, it’ll be East Coast butter.

 

[TastyReuben]

Wait a minute…maybe there are some people here who don’t know that East Coast and West Coast butters can be slightly different shapes (the sticks, that is). That butter holder is saying it’ll accommodate both.

 

[msmofet]

Wait a minute…maybe there are some people here who don’t know that East Coast and West Coast butters can be slightly different shapes (the sticks, that is). That butter holder is saying it’ll accommodate both.

What shapes? Turkeys? Santa? LOL

 

[TastyReuben]

What shapes? Turkeys? Santa? LOL

Here you go:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/...tween-east-coast-butter-and-west-coast-butter

Giving away the ending…East Coast butter - long, narrow sticks; West Coast butter - short, fat blocks. Same butter, same amount of butter, but different shapes.

You can travel all over the US with that new butter tray, and it’ll hold whatever butter they throw at you!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Wait a minute…maybe there are some people here who don’t know that East Coast and West Coast butters can be slightly different shapes (the sticks, that is). That butter holder is saying it’ll accommodate both.

I gathered enough that the US didn't have the same shape butter as the UK, but hadn't appreciated that inside the USA you couldn't stick to one size! Is it at least the same weight, so that a stick of butter is a set weight? Not that I know how much a stick of butter weighs.

 

[JAS_OH1]

I gathered enough that the US didn't have the same shape butter as the UK, but hadn't appreciated that inside the USA you couldn't stick to one size! Is it at least the same weight, so that a stick of butter is a set weight? Not that I know how much a stick of butter weighs.

Yeah, AFAIK all sticks of butter here are 1/4 lb (7 grams).

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Yeah, AFAIK all sticks of butter here are 1/4 lb (7 grams).

A 7 gram stick would be entertaining to see cos it’s a bit over a teaspoon, more like 113 grams

The butter thing really threw me when I first came across it.
I’d seen Ree Drummond on the food channel. Her instructions often included “half a stick of butter”
As our butter pats are over double the size, weighing 250 grams (8.8oz) and she also uses large amounts of sugar (for UK tastes at any rate) I spent some time wondering how everyone in America hadn’t had a heart attack before I realised we’d be adding more than double

 

[karadekoolaid]

a stick of butter is a set weight?

I'm obsessive about converting cups, buckets, quarts, gills and cubits to metric, so I can assure you that a "stick" of butter is 113 gms

 

[msmofet]

Yeah, AFAIK all sticks of butter here are 1/4 lb (7 grams).

8 Tablespoons, 1/2 cup to a 1/4 stick.

 

[TastyReuben]

I gathered enough that the US didn't have the same shape butter as the UK, but hadn't appreciated that inside the USA you couldn't stick to one size!

We’re so polarized as a nation right now…I submit that it all started with the butter!

 

[TastyReuben]

I should add…I’m in Ohio, we don’t have a coast, but we’re good, upstanding East Coast butter people here, none of that crazy flat-and-wide butter for us!

 

[TastyReuben]

…though I can buy rolls of butter here pretty easily.

 

[CookieMonster]

I use a 'butter bell' - sits quietly on the table . . . can't use it in the summer as the house temp is too high and it 'falls out' of the top part . . .
got used to sweet room temp butter in Germany - I'm the only one that'll touch it here . . .