ChudFusk wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:32 pm

LuciousSandwich wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:28 pm If you need to bug out, olive oil (assuming it's in a bottle) will last much longer in your pack. It's also better as an emergency bicycle chain or chainsaw lubricant.

I disgree; lubricants with higher melt points are better for mechanical applications because they stick to the moving parts better than those which are liquid at room temperature.

Well sure, but I was thinking about this from the bugging out perspective. If you're fleeing zombies it's much harder to keep a stick of butter safely in your pocket than a bottle of olive oil. I guess a tactical butter carrier with a belt clip could work though.

I love good olive oil, but even bad butter is still good. And good butter is beautiful.

Butter.

Either is good, no vote. What's shoddy is fake butter stuff like margarine, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, etc. Like artificial sweeteners, I avoid the stuff.

Don't know much about the culinary arts, really, but I dig small nubs or butter mixed in with hot wild rice of just the right pliability. Add a little soy sauce without too much sodium and that's a good snack/side dish.

Also dig that green bow-tied pasta--whatever it's called--with olive oil and sautéed almond slices. The smell of sautéed almond slices is like the smell of pancakes/waffles--very pleasant.


Anyway, does anybody else remember that Tales From The Crypt episode, People Who Live In Brass Hearses? It stars Brad Dourif and Bill Paxton as crime-prone ne-er-do-well brothers, and Paxton has the unusual trait of a being addicted to butter. He's always nursing a stick.



And that's not even close to being the weirdest thing about the episode.

Anything I cook with olive oil could be cooked as well with butter or ghee.

Good olive oil has too low a smoke point for high-temp stuff, so that's why I keep unrefined peanut oil and grapeseed oil around.

Butter wins it.

Are you going to drizzle a salad with butter?

I don't mind an olive-oil based spread on a sandwich. Well, honestly I could cope without either... AKA living in Japan, where I didn't starve. Either of them is better than canola oil, or rape as people who have tasted it used to call it.

Butter is good but it's a fact that there's way too many cows in this world. Also if New Zealand's new right-wing government and their buddies in the farming industry are going to throw all of our climate commitments on the fire (which they have promised to do), then I would encourage other countries to boycott New Zealand dairy products to teach them which side their bread is buttered on.

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Oct 15, 2023 3:07 pm Are you going to drizzle a salad with butter?

That's what other nut oils are for: walnut, hazelnut...

To speak nothing of the magick that is Hot Bacon dressing (a perfect Wisconsin tradition).

New Zealand is too far to justify shipping most things to North America. I try to avoid most things from that part of the world.

Geiginni wrote: Sun Oct 15, 2023 3:32 pm

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Oct 15, 2023 3:07 pm Are you going to drizzle a salad with butter?

That's what other nut oils are for: walnut, hazelnut...

Pistachio oil is the shit, too.

Why don't Americans put butter on their sandwiches?

The more I think about it butter on a PB&J sounds doable, olive oil does not. I'll snarf buttered toast with jelly but jelly and olive oil feels untoward.

The Brits might be on to something.

rsmurphy wrote: Mon Oct 16, 2023 8:03 am Why don't Americans put butter on their sandwiches?

Because we put mayo on our sandwiches?

at Thanksgiving dinner once many years ago, I saw a toddler toddle up to the perfectly set table, strain his arm up and over and after a tiny bit of groping, grab an entire stick of butter and started eating it like a bear finding a candy bar. Butter slowly billowing out between his fingers (yes, the butter had not been let sit out nearly long enough to be served).

Anyway that kid? He is now the president of the entire world.

Butter.