PASTA wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 8:16 am Y'all are nuts, the only answer is SUICIDE. can't live in a world without both.

(not advocating self harm in any way)

ABSTAIN FROM VOTING

This. I could cook without butter, but a Jambon-Beure requires butter.

penningtron wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:16 am Olive oil sucks for a lot of cooking, so butter.

I love making flapjacks with olive oil for the crispy edges but mostly because in my hands I can never find the temperate sweet spot with butter and it always ends up burning.

Overall I am a fan of butter and overuse it in everything. I'll drag my finger across a stick of butter for a quick taste, but never have taken a thimbleful of olive oil.

Butter

Also, please keep one stick of butter in a butter dish on the counter. People who don't have softened butter on demand are savages.

rsmurphy wrote:

penningtron wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:16 am Olive oil sucks for a lot of cooking, so butter.

I love making flapjacks with olive oil for the crispy edges but mostly because in my hands I can never find the temperate sweet spot with butter and it always ends up burning.

Clarified butter/ghee is what you need, as others have mentioned. Save the pad of butter as a topping.

Olive oil smells gross when you cook with it and tastes gross if/when when it has a flavor at all. BUTTER

Can't make pesto alla Genovese or aioli Provençal without olive oil.

Bread and butter is fine but bread with Catalonian aioli and rosemary is the truth.

Olive oil gets that crispiness on the edge of a Detroit style pizza and the edges of a lasagna.

penningtron wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:23 am Clarified butter/ghee is what you need, as others have mentioned.

Word? Game changer!

Charlie D wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 3:08 pm
Bread and butter is fine but bread with Catalonian aioli

My ibicenquian wife makes aioli in the traditional balearic style; Just oil, garlic and salt. And patience. Rather heavy on the stomach recipe but yeah, accompanied with bread is sooooo delicious.

Much of the time I see butter as a condiment and olive oil as a cooking medium. Most of the time if I'm frying (sauteing) something it will be olive oil unless I need high heat or a deep fry.

Sure, I'll start the veggies for a creamy soup in some butter, but the idea of replacing olive oil with butter in all applications sounds to me like pouring half and half on my cereal. Rich dairy flavors can be good but also overdone. I'll keep my butter in my baking though.

Shit this is all waffles.

losthighway wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 3:47 pm ..but the idea of replacing olive oil with butter in all applications sounds to me like pouring half and half on my cereal.

Let's not get crazy now.. that's what bacon fat is for. #thesouth

ChudFusk wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 1:38 pm Olive oil smells gross when you cook with it and tastes gross if/when when it has a flavor at all. BUTTER

You're using bad oil, probably.