Butter..

[RYE_TYLER]

Looking for some different ideas. What kind and how do you pack yours??
Thanks, Rye

[turtle fast]

Ive seen the squeeze bottles of Parkay which seemed to do well (not really butter). I also have seen the open ended squeeze tubes that seal with a slotted dowel like thing that had leaked butter that had melted all in a pack. Butter will not hold up well in summer short of an hour or two before melting and later turning bad. In cooler weather or winter hiking you have a better chance. I have had it in small water tight tupperware in cooler temps.

[K2]

I just tried my hand at making ghee; butter with water and milk solids removed. At room temperature, it's hard. It has a long shelf life, and burns at a higher temperature.

This stuff is waaay expensive if you purchase it in the store. I used 1 lb of unsalted butter, and it reduced down to 1/2 lb. You can still use the milk solids in cooking.

I think I did it right; there are recipes on the web. The taste is alright; I may like it better salted.

For me, what wins the day is the fact that I have less chance of having an oily mess in my backpack, not to mention all that heart-clogging potential!

~K2~

[Mrs Baggins]

http://www.butterbuds.com/faq/index.html

These sound pretty good.

[mmais68569]

I use a product called Molly McButter
http://www.amazon.com/Molly-McButter.../dp/B0005ZXPPW

You can buy it at all grocery stores will not brake down or leak & taste good.

Mike

[10-K]

http://www.butterbuds.com/faq/index.html

These sound pretty good.

This is what I use. It's a good substitute but as you know - there is no substitute for Real Butter.

[Seeker]

olive oil.

[BigFoot2002]

Do butter buds have any calories?

I use olive oil in my liptons/knorrs, mac n cheese, and on my grits.

[kanga]

you can buy boxes at sams of the individual butter packets on restaurant tables.

[Shiraz-mataz]

I believe KFC has individual packets of what's described as a "buttery spread." Actual contents are anybody's guess until CSI runs it through the lab! But hey, it tastes like butter...

[Mountain Wildman]

My Sister in law used to keep a stick of regular butter in a butter dish in the cabinet.
It was always soft and spreadable and I don't recall it ever getting rancid or spoiled.
Not sure how long any one stick of butter sat in there.

[Jonnycat]

I used to bring butter, now I bring olive oil in a four (or is it three) ounce plastic bottle with a flip top lid.

When I did bring butter, I would portion out from a cube, and wrap each portion in a sandwich baggie. Each sandwich baggie would have it's top twisted and banded, and all of them would go in a quart-sized freezer bag (ziplock).

Make sure you use regular (not unsalted) butter, as it has a longer unrefrigerated shelf life.

[LimpsAlong]

12 ounces oughta last you!


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[GalHikingTheGap]

I use a product called Molly McButter
http://www.amazon.com/Molly-McButter.../dp/B0005ZXPPW

You can buy it at all grocery stores will not brake down or leak & taste good.

Mike

I loooove Molly with a passion, its a staple in my house as it was in my folks'

L

[thelowend]

My Sister in law used to keep a stick of regular butter in a butter dish in the cabinet.
It was always soft and spreadable and I don't recall it ever getting rancid or spoiled.
Not sure how long any one stick of butter sat in there.

there was no pressure on it. she probably used a decent bit cooking if she did that (wouldn't be able to leave it for long before going bad.. unless she kept the temps in her house really low).

[Farr Away]

I leave my butter on the counter. The temps in my house are not particularly low - 68 in the winter; 78 in the summer. Back when I was living by myself, a stick of butter would often last me a month or so. Never had it go bad.

I am careful about using a clean utensil though.

[astrogirl]

salted butter holds up fine in my cabinets at home at room temp - my house is about the same temps as farr away.

I've carried it hiking too, but not usually in high summer as I don't hike then anyway.

I've been bringing extra virgin coconut oil instead anyway because I can eat it straight out of the jar!

[Tinker]

I bought some ghee from a store for my Hundred Mile Wilderness section hike in 2008. I repackaged it from the glass jar into a cleaned out plastic honey jar. It kept just fine, tasted more like butter than the olive oil I typically carry (important after 5 or more days unsupplied), and, generally, was a success. It still did not taste "just" like butter, though.
For a group on a thruhike I've heard that it's not unusual for a few hikers to chip in for a pound of butter at a market, take a quarter lb. each, and consume it during the next 2-3 days. I imagine it could get quite messy in hot weather unless you had a plastic screw-top jar to store it in.

[Omega Man]

How well does Olive Oil keep?

[Panzer1]

it says on my box of butter "keep refrigerated'.

Panzer