O/T Butter

Tractor,Tractor · May 12, 2009

How many people out there eat butter? Or smear it on their tractor axles. Had to add that since it is a tractor forum.

Bill in Colo · May 12, 2009

YES! it's the real thing

CWL · May 12, 2009

Yep. Can't beat the real thing.

Bob - MI · May 12, 2009

We eat both butter and margarin at our hose. Butter is normally reserved for cooking and not machinery lube.

The margarin is made with yogurt and has no trans fat. Brummel and Brown I think???? It also has not been identified as a replacement for the Mobil 1 synthetic grease that I use.

cj in wisconsin · May 12, 2009

It's all thats been allowed in my house since day 1.

hot rodder · May 12, 2009

REAL butter! you get fresh milk from the cow seperate the cream and churn the cream. Not the stuff they call butter that they sell in stores.

twomen · May 12, 2009

All I use, I cook a lot (being single) and everything I have read is it is not all that bad, suprising also is lard, used in moderation, is about the same as butter. the body needs a little fat to function, as in all things used in moderation!

Nancy Howell · May 12, 2009

Last I read, real butter was healthier than margarine (oleo). Margarines are synthetics which the body has a hard time digesting which means it floats around in your blood.

Butter is a "natural", real food and your body can digest it. And, IT TASTES SO GOOD!

I quit using margarine a couple of years ago. We don"t eat a lot of butter, but James can tell you I fix a pretty darned good grilled sandwich.

JBruce · May 12, 2009

We eat both butter and brummel and brown. Got to agree on the home made butter but don't have a cow anymore.

thurlow · May 12, 2009

Yep, we used margarine for better than 30 years, thinking it was 'better' for you; now we're told that's wrong. We've been buying butter for several years, now. Anyone else remember when margarine was white and came with a little packet of powdered dye to make it look yellow. The dairy lobby (or someone, who knows) wouldn't allow yellow margarine to be sold.

gitrib · May 12, 2009

I got a big surprise fifty nine years ago. I was invited to the home of my wife to be. What showed up on the table? That imatation stuff.Here I was a Dairy Farmer. We made agreement right then. She would not cook with that stuff and she said she whould never milk a cow.I have enjoyed my butter for those fifty-nine years.
gitrib

northener · May 12, 2009

I like to go to the cheese factory and buy whey butter.

bruster · May 12, 2009

Nancy
Ever notice how foods like butter, eggs, milk and other natural eatables were considered bad, but now it's always "the latest study" that shows it wasn't that bad too begin with!

I feel sorry for all of the kids that have grown up with food allergy's to wheat, milk, corn and more the last few decades

Coffee Helps · May 12, 2009

Funny, I switched over to using olive oil quite a few years ago. Use it on toast, toasted bagels, potatoes, etc. I do support dairy farmers by using quite a bit of fat-free milk, yogurt, etc. The 2 dogs here get a bit of milk in the am too. Don't know about using olive oil on tractors, but one can use it on dry hands also.

Don-Wi · May 12, 2009

Won't catch me buying margarine. I've noticed that lots of people who bring in cookies & such made with margarine, smell like movie theater popcorn when you smell them in the container.

No thanks. Pass the real Wisconsin butter over here.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Nancy Howell · May 12, 2009

Oh yeah, forgot to mention the only butter I will buy is Land O'Lakes.

Pete in MD · May 12, 2009

Yea Thurlow, I remembur doing that as a kid in the 40's growing up in northern Illinois. My folks used it to save money. Seemed like it took forever to get the dye mixed in to get an even yellow color. Back then it was illegal to sell margarine in Wisconsin.

Nancy Howell · May 12, 2009

Do you suppose a little butter or olive oil on the tires would prevent weather cracking? How about on the trim around the windows?

You're right it can be used on the hands. I've used it to condition leather, too. Olive oil, that is.

Nancy Howell · May 12, 2009

BTW, try Eggland eggs. I used to think an egg was an egg especially since my only source for eggs is a grocery store. I finally tried Egglands and they really are better tasting than the others available in the grocery store.

Nancy Howell · May 12, 2009

What's whey butter?

gitrib · May 12, 2009

Nancy; Whey Butter is out of this world. It is made from the whey left from cheese making This means it picks up some of culture used to make the Cheese. When we were making cheese we had one Chef that took all we produced. High Dollar stuff.
gitrib

ChrisinMO · May 12, 2009

My mother fed us margarine day-to-day, using 'real' butter for special occasions. Many years later she lamented that while she was give us margarine for health reasons, it turns out margarine is much worse than butter.

After hearing so much nutritional recantations, I came to formulate my own nutritional game plan. If it is a food product that could be produced without a sophisticated factory backed up by laboratories, then it is probably okay to eat. If its got more than 2 or 3 lines of ingredients, it probably was designed to maximized some company's profits, rather than enhance nutrition. If the ingredients include chemical names which I cannot pronounce, I should probably pass on it until I know what those chemicals are.

For the record, since we have been milking our own cow, we've been making our own butter (okay, I have nothing to do with making the butter...my daughter learned how to make it in the blender in about 4 minutes). Truly fresh butter is out of this world compared to store bought.

Christopher

Anonymous-0 · May 13, 2009

Little Miss Muffet used to eat it,
Is a cow the only animal that produces cream.?

Don-Wi · May 13, 2009

Being that we still produce milk, my parents order butter, cheese, and some other products right from the factory. Our milk is sold to Foremost Farms, who own Morning Glory, Golden Guernsey, and a couple other names. Our milk is made into butter last I heard.

I try to order from my parents, but once in a while I have to buy at the store.

The best is the fresh string cheese. There have been times when the milk truck driver would wait until they had the string cheese packaged so he could deliver it to us. One time was when Mom was going to Alaska to visit a friend the next day and she was gonna bring some up with her, along with some brats and some other cuts of our beef and a bottle of Korbel.

In return she gets sent home with lots and lots of fish.

Donovan from Wisconsin

bruster · May 13, 2009

Haven't had to buy eggs for a while. I do a little "bartering" with the Amish in the area and get a few dozen brown eggs as payment

I bought 40 chicks in the early spring and the one dutch family I see a lot will raise them, and dress them for fall freezer. I will let them keep 1/2 for themselves as payment. They keep theirs at the meat locker in town.

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