Customer Reviews

Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter - Salted (8 ounce) by igourmet.com

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This is NOT cooking butter. This is EATING butter. Too good for use in cooking, though you could do that, I just want to taste it directly on toast, biscuits, etc. Regular butter is okay to use in cooking, but this is the Cadillac of dairy products. You haven't lived until you've tried real butter without the processing other butters go through. Enough said, enjoy!

I just bought this on a lark (not from Amazon), and I was pleasantly surprised: it has a very mild, smooth, creamy taste. At first, I thought that butter was butter, but I did a direct comparison (tasting small slivers of each back-to-back) with the Costco Kirkland Signature butter I had in the fridge, and I have to say the Kerrygold is superior and a lot closer to the fresh, smooth taste I remember spreading on fresh breads at European continental breakfasts.

As a side note, the salted butter really isn't very salty (much less so than the other butter), which (to me) is a good thing, as I'm not much for salty flavors.

I and my family have been enjoying and eating Kerrygold butter for all our lives, grew up on it, nothing new for us..and Nothing new to those of us that believe eating a proper diet is important. SO why would people buy a margarine or butter "product" with all kinds of stuff in it, when they can buy a true butter? I don't usually cook with this butter because its more of a eating butter, but with that said, I use it on steaks, mushrooms and garlic, grilled cheese, vegi's that have been steamed, egg's, lemon meringue pie etc.. so maybe I do cook with it because I dont have any other butter in my fridge!!! and why should you? Kerrygold is available at Costco, Amazon, Fresh and Easy and other grocery stores, sure you could pay 89. for a 4 stick pack of margarine, but with all the fillers in food these days, stick to what people have been eating for years and years before there were fillers and live nice long lives. Healthy vegi's, meats and poultry, fish once in a while and whatever was in season.

Honestly, you can't even compare anything else to this butter.
I first tried it when I lived in Virginia. There's a chain of grocery stores there called Farm Fresh that carry it, and on a whim I decided to try it after seeing it being sampled on various types breads they had in the store. I tried it on the Irish soda bread, and absolutely fell in love with it. It tastes so incredible on everything you use it on, or in, and especially so on Irish soda bread. With the Irish soda bread, it's about as close to eating a supremely delicious cake as you'll ever get. I would buy this stuff as a treat, not to cook with. Eat it with bread, and you'll have the whole tub eaten within a few days. Definitely try it with Irish soda bread.. you'll never eat bread and butter the same way again.

compare the color of butters to each other and you'll see that kerrygold has a dark yellowish color that is a sign of high amounts of beta-carotene. While I won't make the claim that butter is totally health for you - butter does a lot of good for the system. It has the vitamin D in it that is needed for the calcium in it to be absorbed in the system. Supposedly high in omega 3's as well. And before the advent of margarine, incidences diseases of the heart were much less so than today.
I choose this butter for the health of it. As for taste, it is a lot more creamier than normal butter - an indication of higher fat content. Don't be fooled. It is still just butter. Just butter that makes you feel like you are eating something akin to creme cheese.. and not eating a stick of grease- like you get with eating ordinary mass produced butter in the US.

Amazon found Igourmet for me. I ordered this most delicious Irish Butter and now I am delighted to be able to serve this delectable butter every day.

This butter is sinful! There are no other words to describe it.

I started eating grass-fed butter after reading Dr. Weston Price's book and I will never look back. It's better for you -which you can tell by the color of the butter- it tastes better and it's creamy beyond words. Even cold out of the frig and it still spreads easily.

Yes it is more expensive, but worth every cent. I buy it at Costco for like $9 for 3 lbs. If you are a butter lover and haven't tried this, then you are seriously missing out!

I never knew butter could taste this good. Try it. You'll like it.

Butter doesn't get better than this. It's easily spreadable, straight out of the refrigerator, without being mushy like margarine. It's lightly salted, so it can be eaten with flavorful breads without competing on flavor, or on plainer breads and still has enough salt to make a difference. I've bought this in Europe, and locally at a Safeway/Genuardi's market, and given how weak the dollar is, even this online price isn't bad (though I've paid 2.99 locally when it's on sale).

You'll never look at butter the same way again after trying this.

This is amazing stuff. It's creamy and smooth and subtle, but rich at the same time. People keep saying it's not really for baking, but if it's this amazing on bread, I'm sure it makes baked goods taste better, too. I was really surprised by how spreadable it is out of the fridge; regular butter would tear up the bread, but this stuff spreads better than even those canola oil butters. And it's really yellow, which apparently has to do with the amount of beta-carotene. I think I'm switching to this butter for good...life is too short.