Do you substitute butter in cooking? If so, with what?

by Vee

I like this one!

I am with you. Ever since i found out that margarine is one molecule away from being plastic i have stopped using it.

Oh! Vee.......I think your poster says it ALL about marg. I'm so pleased I stopped eating it years' ago. I'd only been using it for a few years', on medical advice, at the time.

;-)

Butter or ghee for me. I can't imagine something like shortbread made without butter. I have never been a margarine eater.

by Rice

For baking I always use margarine, for cooking I use a very low fat dairy spread, and for greasing I use an 'easy release', product.

by Bryony Harrison

I don't substitute butter for anything. I don't like marge and I have a sneaky suspicion it's not all it's cracked up to be. I will now share some memes. Sorry for the excess, but I can't decide which one I like best.

by Vee

I only use Olive Oil, in everything.
We don't use any butter(except once a year when I make soup).
I never buy any kind of Marg etc.
Anything that needs butter, I don't use the recipe.

by jonaja

Oh! jonaj, when M/W ovens became all the rage in the early '80's, I baked a cake which called for oil in it. It baked to perfection, but it was beyond foul, to my 'butter-raised' taste-buds!
Used Butter next time, & was delicious! Trial, & error somewhat?

I never make cakes at all...I never bake, but I would use butter only if I did I'm hearing ya :)

I don't eat dairy so I use vegetable oils or Nuttalex (a butter substitute made from sunflower oil). There is a buttery version that tastes indistinguishable from butter in baking.

by Jennifer Muirhead

I have heard good things about Nuttelex. Does it have much of a flavor if you were to say, use it for eggs?

There are a couple of different types, but the buttery one tastes buttery.

I'm eating eggs with it right now actually. :)

Nope. Love my Butter!

Stopped eating Marg. when it started to make me nauseous, due oil in it.
Don't use EVOO either, as that, too, makes me feel quite ill.

I use Ghee for making Pancakes only.

by donjo

I ave NEVER used butter in cooking. I use extra virgin olive oil or margarine, so l guess its just what you get used to. When I first started cooking, none of the recipes I used called for butter, so I never used it. I have no idea about the taste of butter, since I have never used it. The modern day recipes just don't mention butter at all. My mother and mother in law don't use it either, so I never saw the need.

by Lluxi

always use butter.

by flaga

In baking I use butter because substitutes don't give as good a product. For frying I use olive or grapeseed oil but some things like mushrooms I still fry in butter for the taste. I have high cholesterol so it is not just about taste. I have never cooked with margarine. I have never seen the value in that product. If you take the butter out of the fridge it doesn't take long to soften up.

by terri

No I do not as I do not like un natural products like margarine, so always use butter or oil for everything.

by Finy