American Reacts to UK vs USA Butter Differences

As an American I am a big fan of butter. Today I am very interested in learning about how butter is different in the UK compared to the United States. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[stumccabe]

British butter packaging also has markings for convenient cutting. How that lady hadn't noticed that I cannot imagine.

[trevorarnold]

I believe this is partly why Americans can’t understand our liking for beans on toast, but when the toast, which is made from more flavoursome bread, is coated with creamy slightly salted delicious butter, then added with the baked beans in tomato sauce, that makes all the difference, to a delicious little snack.

[keithalanbaker]

Here in the UK we spread butter on most of our sandwiches whether its Ham, Jam, cheese, egg or Marmite and the fact that Americans don't butter their sandwiches is totally bizarre.

[juliaforsyth]

When New Zealand butter was exported to the States, there were complaints of food colouring because the butter was so yellow. They were astonished when told it was just the result of grass fed cows on spring grass.

[natalielang]

As a baker I would ALWAYS weigh my ingredients as it's a very precise science.

[NK-bjli]

If u unravel the packaging the UK’s butter has measurements there aswell. It’s often 5x 50g sections.

[starrius]

butter in the UK in blocks also works because of the size and shape of a butter dish

[janemcdonald]

Aussie here. My husband and I were visiting some of his US military veteran friends in 2010 (he was an Australian veteran who befriended a number of Americans when he served in Vietnam). I commented to one of their wives that their butter was very pale, almost white, whereas our butter was much yellower. She categorically stated that our butter must have colouring added for it to be yellow. When I said there wasn't any, that it was made with just cream and salt,  I was flat out told I had to be wrong.

Unfortunately, I couldn't google to check and find out about our cows being grass-fed because you couldn't buy a sim card in the US that had data without having a US address and sign up for a 12-month contract (we were only there for a month). 

The Pay as You Go sims only had talk & text capability. When I told the people at the phone shops that we'd had month-to-month sims that included data in Australia for years, they looked at me like I had two heads and told me it was impossible to have month-to-month data plans.

[lizzieapples]

There are a lot of things that tase different in the U.K. I’d say our beef and lamb are highly superior which also has a lot to do with the fact that our livestock is mostly Grassfed where as Americans tend to feed their cattle, a mix of Corn, oats, and barley . this is mostly the reason why British people do not over season their meat because it’s not needed because our meat taste good.

[scptcL]

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter and she put it in her batter, but, she said "this batter's bitter. If I bought a bit of better butter, it will make my batter better". So she bought a bit of better butter and she put it in her batter and it made her bit of bitter batter better.

[viper]

How can you not have butter on a sandwich! That's completely mental 😮😮😮😂😂😂

[irishflink]

If you never had Butter on your Sandwich you have missed out of something Good

[DarrenFerneyhough]

Just go and get some Kerrygold from a store and see what you're missing! And yes, in the UK we spread butter on the bread when we make a sandwich regardless of what the sandwich filling is

[The.Android]

British butter block packs also have measurements on them (in grams).

[skipper]

Butter is used for cooking in UK, but it’s more often spread on bread….sandwiches have buttered bread, unlike in the US

[frankmitchell]

Baking recipes in Britain almost always use weights not cups or spoons. Even my Grandmother, years ago, cooked using ounces and pounds. Every good cook uses scales and weighs the ingredients.

[carolineskipper]

Interestingly, I just checked my packet of Anchor Butter, which tastes 'minimum fat 80%' but also in the ingredients says '82% fat' so obviously covering both bases.
A thin layer of butter on sandwiches prevents the bread from going soggy when the sandwich filling soaks into it. It also makes the whole thing less 'dry' with non- moist fillings - although these days people do use mayo as an alternative with appropriate fillings.

[artasium]

Tyler this is the reason there are butter dishes. You cut an amount of butter from the butter in the fridge and you put it in the butter dish with its lid and you leave it out on the table or work surface. That way, your hard unspreadable butter softens to room temp and is spreadable. Then when nearly finished you simply refill with butter from fridge.

[patriciachirgwin]

Another thing to note is that many British households keep their butter in a butter dish outside of the fridge (in a cupboard) so that it is always spreadable. If they don’t use the ‘block of butter’ (which is typically 250g or slightly more than half a pound), the “spreadable “butter is kept in the fridge.

[JohnResalb]

Well this has a lot to do with grass and rainfall.
As an example - Irish butter has a world-wide reputation.
In the same way, Welsh lamb is exported to the US and other countries.
Scottish whiskey requires both soil and correct atmosphere.
What additives are then added to any product can be subjected to political control, but soil and weather cannot.