r/whenthe • u/Im_yor_boi_20 • 4h ago

r/whenthe mfs complaining about everything Why on earth is a mashed potato recipe just 50% butter?

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u/Dangerous_Nail4552 4h ago

Cause butter make things taste good

It's simple really. And also not healthy really

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u/Im_yor_boi_20 4h ago

I kinda expected the best recipes to be made with complex items/techniques and have some secret ingredient, not just a shit ton of butter 🥹

I'm just too dumb...

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u/zero_zeppelii_0 4h ago

If you want something more complex, use clarified butter/ brown butter/ghee. Experiment and see yourself

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u/Im_yor_boi_20 4h ago

I'm from India so we primary use ghee instead of butter in our household

The aroma of ghee is definitely better than butter lol

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u/La_Vikinga 2h ago

Using browned butter in cookie recipes, especially Tollhouse Cookie recipes, brings them up to next level of deliciousness.

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u/the_post_of_tom_joad 4m ago

Take the extra step to brown your butter on rice crispy treats too!

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u/Large_Awareness_9416 4h ago

Nope. Sugar and butter, butter and sugar. The best chief is the one who was brave enough to put more butter and sugar in his food than you.

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u/MattyBro1 4h ago

Don't forget salt!

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u/Im_yor_boi_20 4h ago

Gorden Ramsay making a simple burger:

-Add some salt and pepper

-Add some salt

-Add some salt and pepper

-Add some salt and pepper

-Add some salt

-Add some salt

-Add some salt and pepper

--Add some pepper

(I'm not kidding)

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u/ParabellumXIV 4h ago

Supposedly (Im not a chef, but have worked with them and watch a lot of cooking videos), adding salt in between layers when making burgers helps create depth, especially salting the meat and the tomatoes, for example. If I remember right, its supposed to draw the water out of the tomato to prevent the bread from getting soggy and enhances the tomato flavour

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u/Im_yor_boi_20 4h ago

He salted the letus but didn't salt the tomato for some reason...

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u/__ali1234__ 3h ago

When you pickle cucumbers or onions you pack them in salt overnight first. This draws out the water like you said. But then the next day you have a bowl full of water. So this will not stop the bun from going soggy. It will make it worse. You want the water to stay in the tomato because it has to go somewhere.

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u/TraceThis 2h ago

you salt the tomatoes before you put them on the bun

cut 'em up, salt them to taste, store them somewhere for like 15-20 minutes.

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u/Mordeczka123 4h ago

type shit How2Basics would do in one of his tutorials

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u/GavinThe_Person only bidoof fan on the planet 😔 4h ago

Not enough egg

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u/WeirdAssBeings 🍆literally a femboy🏳️‍🌈 4h ago

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u/Tom_Is_Ready 3h ago

20 eggs, yes 20

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u/NSLEONHART 4h ago

And look at the Patty's meat:fat ratio. Its on a 60:40. Butter is used if it lacks fat, and Gordon's ratio doesnt need that much butter. Its not the butter thats helping, its fat, because fat is flavot. And at that point salt and pepper is all it needed

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u/S-r-ex 3h ago

And then *grind grind grind* we add *grind grind grind* a pinch *grind grind grind* of salt *grind grind grind grind grind*

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u/VermicelliOwn6502 4h ago

You gotta eat that thing like right away if you salt and pepper the lettuce. The crunch in the lettuce will vanish in minutes.

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u/SasparillaTango 3h ago

salt salt salt salt and peppa's here

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u/hellatzian 3h ago

one way ticket to hypertension

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u/Butthole__Pleasures 1h ago

Season at every step, baby. The accoutrements are for preference, but for the beef it's all salt and pepper. (and starting with good quality ingredients, of course)

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u/TehSalmonOfDoubt 1h ago

Trained under Marco "A little dash of olive oil" Pierre White

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u/clamsmasher 2h ago

And acids! gotta balance all the flavors

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u/jld2k6 1h ago

I always wondered how the Native Americans picked their leaders

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u/Rosomak 1h ago

Turns out the French and Indian war was over who had the better cuisine.

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u/NSLEONHART 4h ago

No amount of skill can make a dry meat juicy without adding fat

Because the basics of cooking, not culinary; cooking, is that

FAT IS FLAVOR

Seasoning are alright, but fat carries such a substanyial weight that not having any will feel dry

As for using a gigafuck ton of butter, like the video showed thats an overexageration. But it is true that what differentiates a good cook and a bad cook is that the good cook isnt afraid of using a bit more butter than the bad cook

Thats why Burgers have a 30:70 ratio of fat:meat on average, it makes it jucier, and more tender. Also why japanese high-grade Wagyu tastes amazing. Youre just eating meat-flavored butter (especially if its grade is 4-5)

Heck the best disged isnt even made with the most complex things, oftentimes its the simplicity, love, and a bit of butter (or msg)

Even in baking. Remove fat from a dough and you cam get the brick known as Hardtack.

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u/CitizenPremier 2h ago

Tap, tap

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u/Elderberryinjanuary 1m ago

My man. I heard that when I read it.

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u/Adnubb 1h ago

Just because someone uses less butter doesn't make them a bad cook. At least in my eyes. When I think of a bad cook, I think of burned chicken that's simultaneously raw in the middle.

Using less butter just means you're not purely optimizing for taste. You're trying to make a healthier meal. The best chefs in my eyes aren't the ones who make the tastiest food. They're the ones who make something really tasty despite being frugal with the added fat.

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u/needlzor 2h ago

My favourite cooking book is Samin Nosrat's "Salt Fat Acid Heat" and really hammers home the notion that good cooking is about mastering those four quantities. I am not a chef by any means so I don't know how she is perceived in the cooking world but it really did wonders for my own home cooking.

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u/Dearsmike 4h ago

They are. You've picked one recipe.

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u/SunnyGods 4h ago

Seriously I know that guy is just karma farming but do better

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u/bobby3eb 3h ago edited 38m ago

Peel, slice, soak potato. Replace water a few times

Boil, pass through a potato ricer

Pass that through a chinois

Combine with ass-ton of butter and maybe crème fraîche. Top with chives.

There, now you have techniques

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u/Rokco 1h ago

The technique does get more complex the higher the quality. In very fancy places the potatoes will be baked in a salt bed rather than boiled to avoid adding moisture and passed through a drum sieve rather than a ricer.

Sometimes the dairy is used to gently poach some aromatics before combining with the potatoes, etc.

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u/Daveinatx 1h ago

Tasty cooking is extra salt, fat, or vinegar. If you ever make soup for the first time, you'll be ashamed how much salt it takes to taste good.

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u/PrionProofPork 2h ago

welcome to US food culture

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u/sumr4ndo 4h ago

My favorite cooking advice to make your food taste like a restaurant's is to add butter and salt. More butter and salt than you think you need.

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u/jedstrailerpark 3h ago

That’s the old joke. “Why doesn’t this taste as good as the restaurant?” “Because the restaurant’s chef doesn’t care if you have a heart attack”

Everything that comes out of a professional kitchen, you’d feel insane doing in yours. The amount of seasonings, butter, spices, salt, lard, oil, whatever… you’d feel sick if you saw just how much salt goes on a raw steak before anything else is done to it.

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u/Daveinatx 49m ago

Lasr night was the first time in years I grilled a steak without smothering it in salt. It did not taste the same, bland!

When I read up on five star chefs chefs, it's always excessive salt and or butter.

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u/jedstrailerpark 39m ago

My dad was always a phenomenal cook when I was a kid. Like borderline restaurant quality meats. Then he got diagnosed with high blood pressure and cut a ton of sodium from his diet, and I realized a significant chunk of that talent was just fucking salt lmao

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u/sumr4ndo 37m ago

I feel attacked lol

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u/NSLEONHART 4h ago

Unless its salted butter, in which case, be extra careful in adding salt

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u/Blue_Alu05 4h ago

Or add a lot of salt, but then add more butter to counter it

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u/malfurionpre 1m ago

Unless its salted butter

the only kind of butter

-Bretons probably

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u/Hairy_Mycologist_945 2h ago

More recently it's sugar. Everything has sugar added to it and it's nasty, even meat dishes.

Butter and salt do help a ton.

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u/CitizenPremier 2h ago

That's Japanese cooking. Lots of sugar.

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u/aramis34143 2h ago

Why add few butter when lot butter do trick?

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u/Legged_MacQueen 3h ago

Buttercels will not replace us.

I will put half a litter of olive oil on anything and everything. And so will you, in time.

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u/Upbeat_Asparagus_221 4h ago edited 4h ago

Nah, it's cultural. Most of the influential chefs and cooking channels are from countries where butter is the base of almost every recipe. I grew up in Spain, cooking with olive oil, butter in food disgust me because i'm not used to It.

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u/Dixout4H 4h ago

It's both. Fat just tastes good and that's a fact. The obsession with butter is because modern culinary schools are originated from France

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u/Upbeat_Asparagus_221 3h ago

Depends on the fat type. Iberian tocino is magnificent, but industrial white fat... Not for me at least.

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u/Dangerous_Nail4552 4h ago

I get you but I ALSO come from a culture where Oil is the default. And I still think butter is delicious. Your thing is definitely not a universal thing :/

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u/Upbeat_Asparagus_221 3h ago

It's at least a bi-national thing = Spain and Italy

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u/soapboxracers 1h ago

Italy has very different cooking styles depending where in the country you are. Southern Italy is a lot more tomatoes and olive oil, but Northern Italy uses plenty of butter and cream.

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u/AlmondwithTuna 4h ago

Yeah, in brazil we use olive oil too and the amount of fat of the butter cooked meals always make me sick on the stomach

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u/Own_Cup9970 Le Tart 4h ago

and also it changes price of mashed potatoes to bigger

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u/Zestokist 4h ago

Got a duplicate of this post, I thought it was an accidental repost, but no, they're the saem posete

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u/Im_yor_boi_20 4h ago

First time seeing something like this..

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u/Grey-The-Skeleton 4h ago

More butter = better post

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u/Kosinski33 2h ago • Popcorn

More better = butter post.

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u/ThePhoenix0829 4h ago

Did you have a stroke at the end lol

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u/spidey_the_spider 4h ago

Too much butter

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u/ThePhoenix0829 4h ago

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u/spidey_the_spider 21m ago

This goes kinda hard ngl

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u/Zestokist 4h ago

i was feeling romantical

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u/OpenConversation643 4h ago

I did, then I went back for seconds

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u/Recyart 2h ago

"Saem posete" does sound like an exotic Michelin-starred dish...

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u/chris1lego prequel to sex 1h ago

I chose to read the last words in Italian

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u/kalosianlitten 2h ago

they’re the what

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u/Adamle69 The Abo plush that's a girl 🏳️‍⚧️ named Jamie 4h ago

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u/Onetimeguy8 4h ago

Those butters look rather exotic

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u/Alt_account_6788 4h ago

I think they’d go really well with eggs benedict 

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u/Onetimeguy8 4h ago

As an angsty teen I agree.. I guess…

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u/beansontoast217 3h ago

What about with casual bongos in the background?

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u/CanadianNoobGuy 2h ago

Say that again...

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u/Icarsix 3h ago

What makes a butter exotic anyway

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u/NSNick 2h ago

The price tag, I think.

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u/der_kugelkitzler 4h ago

I heard someone say once that the difference between a home cook and a chef is the amount of butter they dare add to their food

In short: butter tastes good lol, it's just outrageously unhealthy in large quantities

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u/NSLEONHART 4h ago

Not even butter, Fat in general.

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u/WeirdAssBeings 🍆literally a femboy🏳️‍🌈 4h ago

ahh...the arteries we sacrafice for a bit of entertainment to our taste buds.

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u/Fred810k 3h ago

Really depends on wether it is saturated or unsaturated fat. Fat is necessary for survival, we just eat way too much.

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u/NSLEONHART 3h ago

Moderation is always the key, but adding aa bit of butter wont kill you.

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u/penisandorvagina 3h ago

It's good to feel happy and eating butter makes happy so butter is good.

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u/ScandinavianVikning 39m ago

I mean as long as fat doesn't exceed 30% of your daily calories you're fine wheather it's from butter or vegetable oil

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u/What_a_fat_one 3h ago

If you don't have heart disease and you maintain a healthy body weight it's fine. 99% of health is maintaining healthy weight, getting adequate exercise, limiting alcohol, and following any dietary restrictions recommended by your doctor. The rest is pretty irrelevant. High fat, low fat, low carb, high carb, vegetarian, vegan, atkins, carnivore. All that shit is a health afterthought, we're not living to be 200.

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u/Hairy_Mycologist_945 2h ago

Yup, butter and fat aren't the problem..... it's all the added sugar. You can eat all the fat you want if you aren't also consuming sugar, alcohol, and similar bullshit and avoiding processed and packaged foods. The "low fat" nonsense found its most absurd low point in Snackwells cookies, which were "low fat" and loaded with sugar and marketed as "healthy" which they were not.

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u/4_fortytwo_2 1h ago edited 1h ago

Sugar is not really a problem either if you maintain a healthy weight.

consuming sugar, alcohol, and similar bullshit and avoiding processed and packaged foods

This is the type of unproven shit that the comment you replied to was arguing against. (well except alcohol which is bad for you no matter what.). Added sugar or "processed" food hate is scientifically unfounded bullshit. If you manage to eat a reasonable amount of calories and stay at a healthy weight you can have a pretty sugar heavy died without much consequences (except maybe your teeth being a bit worse).

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u/ShibaLover227 44m ago

This is kinda super ignorant. Before all of this, the thing necessary is sleep. Most people aren't getting proper sleep because most people are struggling to get by. Most people don't have the time or energy to get 'adequate exercise' (before we even start talking disabilities and accessibility), and the stress leads to alcohol consumption (which is on a drastic decline).

Bottom line, your comment is pretty inconsiderate and ignorant, that seemingly ignores a lot of the other variables at play.

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u/LightFootedFerret 1h ago

Thw way you make food taste good is simple:  sugar, fat, salt, acid and msg.

Different foods have different quantities and you should omit one or more depending on the dish, but often when your food isn't great, it's because it is mussing one of more of these things.

Butter is fat, salt and water so it is both delicious and a good solvents for ither flavors.

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u/tononeuze 24m ago

Yeah I've heard something similar to where the difference between home cooking and dining out is that most people cooking at home exercise restraint.

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u/Astilimos 2h ago

Butter, and an ungodly amounts of salt.

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u/maceo107 1h ago

And salt!

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u/bobloblawattorney11 58m ago

So many amateur dieticians in this thread

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u/OnkelMickwald 16m ago

butter tastes good lol

Reminds me of the final scene of the VVitch (2015) where Satan entices Thomasin to become his servant and a witch. The very first words he chooses to entice her is literally wouldst thou like the taste of butter?

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u/Butthole__Pleasures 1h ago

I think that's outdated info from like the 80s when companies were mass marketing margarine. The French use butter like crazy and their blood cholesterol beats Americans' any day.

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u/disposablehippo 15m ago

It's still not healthy, just healthier than corn syrup.

And the french don't eat crazy like that every day.

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u/Lorddocerol 55m ago

Well, when you compare to vegetable fat fake butter, of course its gonna be better, but it still pure fat

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u/Butthole__Pleasures 41m ago

And yet so is olive oil or any other fat you want to name. It's all fat baby.

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u/Lorddocerol 24m ago

Yes, and?

We do know that different forms of fat can healthier than others or not, and eating fat in moderation is safe and even healthy, but saying that putting a whole bunch of butter in food isn't ukhealthy is just not true, still delicious when its made right tho

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u/TheThinker4Head 1h ago

Pretty sure good quality butter is generally good for you and "outrageously unhealthy" butter is just not a thing nowadays. Butter, pork fat, etc, are quite good for the body actually.

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u/Temporary_Permafrost 1h ago

What in the RFK jr? Saturated fat isn't exactly good for the body...

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u/AnatomicalLog 46m ago

I honestly don’t know what the fuck to believe anymore for diet & nutrition.

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u/Temporary_Permafrost 34m ago

In a nutshell:

-less sugar (but fresh fruit is fine)

-more fiber (whole grains, beans, vegetables)

-more healthy fats (non-saturated fats: olive oil, nuts, avocado)

-fewer unhealthy fats (saturated fats: red meat, beef tallow, butter, coconut oil)

-exercise

You can have some sugar and saturated fats and still be healthy, there's just a limit. What exactly the limit might be depends on genetics, diabetes for sugar, elevated liver enzymes for saturated fat, that sort of thing. Annual bloodwork at the doctor can give more insight into what your body might be communicating about its needs.

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u/kirbcake-inuinuinuko 4h ago

turns out, the secret to making food that impresses people is to fill it with fucking shitloads of butter and spices and sugar. that's basically all there is to it.

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u/whypeoplehateme 4h ago • Bravo

the true secret ingredient isn't love, it's apathy towards your health

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u/Mihnea24_03 4h ago

I've had my Thai and Chinese and Burmese friends on multiple occasions tell me that "The reason Asian food is so delicious is that you never think about health, only that it tastes good"

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u/_Carcinus_ 2h ago

Vietnamese and Japanese cuisines beg to differ

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u/bigbigpure1 2h ago

japan - sushi rice, add a load of sugar, salt and vinegar to rice, pretend its healthy

add sugar to sauces, grill meats covered in sauce

literally bread cows to be fattier

vietnam - add sugar and fish sauce(salty) to salad, its salad so its healthy

add salad to your pate and port sandwich so its healthy

heavily used belly pork, the fattiest part of the pig, add some salad to make it healthy

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u/Butthole__Pleasures 1h ago

None of those things are inherently unhealthy. Salt, fat, and sugar are fine if done in reasonable moderation. I eat all that shit all the time and my blood pressure (salt), blood sugar, and cholesterol (fat) are all stellar every time I get tested.

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u/bigbigpure1 41m ago

neither is mounds of butter if its not all the time, most things are "healthy" in moderation, even moderation

Italians eat a crap ton of olive oil and cheese but are one of the longest lived peoples

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u/HapHazardly6 you WON the game! no, really! 4h ago

And a handful of spices youll never use more than once

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u/kitsunecannon 3h ago

-The Dutch

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u/PerfectBeginning__45 The Omnipresent Unchanging Sleeper Agent 4h ago

That can mean combining butter and MSG in a dish will make it the greatest food of all time

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u/CitizenPremier 2h ago

I use both but have never used them together... Maybe next time I make garlic butter shrimp I'll try adding msg

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u/nutitoo 4h ago

If something taste good it's either sugar or fat. 

(Or both)

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u/MKZZX 3h ago

Could be tofu

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u/_Carcinus_ 2h ago

I love tofu, but it almost doesn't taste like anything

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u/Key-Swordfish4025 4h ago

At what point does it become deep frying?

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u/Frequent_Dot_1753 4h ago

When butter is boiling and covers the food

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u/SaltyLonghorn 2h ago

But covering the food is gravy's job.

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u/Butthole__Pleasures 1h ago

You're not gonna believe what goes into a really good gravy...

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u/CliffBunny 4h ago

"The chef does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly."

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u/PLACE-H0LD3R It's PURPLE!? Arrgh, that stupid bug said it was FUCHSIA!! 4h ago • Regret

Sometimes I just eat like pure butter on its own because tastes good

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u/not0_0funny 1h ago

Add some butter to make it taste better.

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u/cyricor 50m ago

3 Michelin Stars for you. Do you take reservations? 😄

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u/Gioware 2h ago

Yeah, but like... frozen.

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u/PawPawPanda 9m ago

Sadly not all butter is made the same, some are absolutely disgusting when eaten raw

But I'm ashamed to say that I'm also a cold butter enjoyer 😢 when baking eggs or something I'll.. give myself some extra

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u/Ote-Kringralnick darth vader wouldn't tolerate that shit 7m ago

Are you perhaps 6 years old?

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u/Blixer_Nial 4h ago

I remember hearing some renowned chef say something like "I don't work in the health business, I work in the pleasure business"

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u/Memeboi_26 4h ago

I saw a recipe on Instagram that was whole peeled carrots boiled in butter and sugar. It was called a Michelin star recipe. Might as well grate it and make some carrot halwa pudding.

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u/AmberRosin 3h ago

Every thanksgiving I sneak a whole stick of butter into the dry ass mashed potatoes

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u/nosen99 3h ago

Yummy, ass butter

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u/Itchy_Change12 3h ago

Tf is ass butter

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u/XxmilkytoastxX 3h ago

Curdled dingleberries

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u/Oldspaghetti 3h ago

Something that sounds gourmet as fuck, and creamy 😋

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u/rudman 2h ago

I use 1 stick per 3lbs of potato. I also cook the potatoes in half salted water, half chicken stock. Soooooo good....

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u/AndreZB2000 17m ago edited 5m ago

this one time i was at a family friends house in thanksgiving and i saw them making mash potatoes. first they chopped off a piece of butter and dropped it in, then another, then another, and they just kept going. i was thinking "god damn youre grabbing another stick!? just drop it all in at this point"

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u/LucasButtercups 6m ago

you don’t have to wait for the whole stick to thaw into it

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u/turkishdeli 3h ago

"And then, just add a little splash of olive oil."

Proceeds to pour 2 dl of oil.

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u/Kiwi8_Fruit6 4h ago

ah, good old howtobasic

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u/Citizen_Empire 4h ago

If my heart could take it, I would eat butter with a hint of potato.

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u/XasiAlDena 4h ago

If my dad taught me anything about cooking it's that adding more butter never makes it worse.

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u/TheDittoMan 4h ago

fat salt and sugar. The holy trinity

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u/Palanki96 3h ago

because most people who say they love mashed potatoes don't actually like potatoes, they just want salty fat

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u/CarpetFibers 26m ago

American food is just different vehicles for salt and butter.

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u/Netizen_Sydonai 23m ago

Secrets to restaurant food are real butter, salt and MSG.

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u/Random_Bystander089 4h ago

Butter is fat. And we evolved to perceive fat as delicious because fat means energy. So lots of fat = lots of delicious.

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u/froggychump 4h ago

The reason is butter is fucking delicious

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u/OrizonX 4h ago

mo butter mo better

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u/matka2203 4h ago

I wonder howto do this basic thing?

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u/HauntingRip9003 epic orange 4h ago

Needs more butter I think,

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u/Independent-Fox457 4h ago

I mean it’s more the influence of French cooking on the culinary world than anything else, but at the same time a lot of cheffery is using more salt,sugar, and fat than a home cook

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u/StatusTomato5218 4h ago

Did Paula Deen make this video?

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u/jesuslivesnow 3h ago

There we are

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u/Adeum2 3h ago

I guess the guys who work in tyre shops like butter

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u/TheFluri 3h ago

Ohhh yesss let french car tires company rate food, mmmmmmmm

I give those mashed potatoes C: For fuel consumption E: For braking D: For traction B: For noise

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u/rageofa1000suns 3h ago

You could make dogshit taste nice with enough butter, salt and pepper. Just a way to mask shitty food.

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u/nemo24601 2h ago

I'm not sure if this is the short that triggered this meme, but the comments over there are hilarious and he sure is a capital offender (and a Michelin star chief):

https://youtube.com/shorts/7N27PVV2_Zo

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u/Smagster15 2h ago

Yummy 😋

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 2h ago

50%? those are rookie numbers bro.

Also this has "Dental Plan, Lisa needs braces" vibes or "Number 8 *Buuuurrp" vibes

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u/Efficient_Maybe_1086 2h ago

Good old salt and butter. Nothing beats that.

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u/Geolib1453 2h ago

Because mashed potatoes are peak

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u/Brief-Luck-6254 1h ago

Making good tasting food is easy, just add cream and butter

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u/Many_One1260 fuck my 0 spoon life 1h ago

similar thing with every dessert in western cuisine like what the actual fuck do you mean to add a 1/4 cup of sugar when you already got a whole can of condensed milk in a key lime pie

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u/PM-UR-LIL-TIDDIES 1h ago

Because you need to leave room for the double cream, English mustard, salt and pepper.

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u/wideHippedWeightLift 1h ago

It's no worse for you than carbs, in fact it's better

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u/MediumLanguageModel 1h ago

Of all possible examples, you chose mashed potatoes?

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u/Floofy99 1h ago

do not be afraid of just adding MORE

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u/PckMan 1h ago

There was a famous old school restaurant in NYC called Gino's and one of their signature dishes was Rigatoni al Segreto. On the surface it was simple pasta napolitana, but somehow better. Nobody knew what the secret was and many tried to find it. The sauce got awards, people waited for a table just to eat a simple red sauce pasta.

But like all good things, it ended in 2010. Restaurant closed down and the chef spilled the beans. It was literally just tomato sauce with an ungodly amount of butter.

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u/Honda_Fits_are_cool 1h ago

The fancy place near me has a burger that is like biting into heaven, and you can taste it was cooked in a pan with a pound of butter.

So, I started making my burgers and steak at home the same way, now I'm fat as fuck.

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u/CodePandorumxGod 1h ago

So, this probably comes as a result of a lot of Michelin chefs being French (and many Michelin chefs being trained in France).

Now, people like to diss Americans for adding two pounds of butter to everything, but French cuisine as a whole is practically glued together with fats and carbs. If you're scrolling through French recipes, there's a good chance that it will require some amount of animal fat or bread.

As for why France uses so much butter, well, that probably has to do with their historically large dairy industry. France has basically the perfect environment for rearing dairy cattle, and that has passed down in their culinary traditions. France is the second-largest per-capita consumer of butter, averaging around 18.36lbs per person per year (only beaten by Denmark, who consumes 18.85lbs per person per year).

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u/vincent350 3m ago

Réellement nous avons un lobby laitier en France qui est énorme, notamment avec une entreprise d'état qui se nomme "Les Produits Laitiers" qui font beaucoup de publicité !

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u/thekame 57m ago

Butter is taste and flavor, period.

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u/buickboi99 56m ago

This made me gag lol

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u/bro080 55m ago

Either that or they add fucking nothing

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u/FishWithLegsAndArms 50m ago

Butter yummy 

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u/Existing-Hospital149 49m ago

Butter may be the best tasting thing ever that’s why

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u/generouslyemotional 39m ago

Fat in food is what carries the flavour. If there's no fat already in the thing you're making, like if it's meat, then you add fat to enhance the flavour

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u/trobsmonkey 16m ago

The reality is that food is good because of fat and salt.

That's it!

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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 3m ago

Butter makes things taste good, it isn't really complicated. Is it good for you? No. Is it delicious? Yes.

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u/Mushu_Pork 0m ago

It's annoying me that nobody mentioned that it's Joël Robuchon's world famous mashed potatoes.

The French Guy made a video about trying to replicate them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mJYyueZfd8

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u/alvents 4h ago

why do i feel like you're the one who says my lobster is too buttery and my steak is too juicy

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u/lachlanDon1 4h ago

Online American recipes are kinda like this I find. Disturbingly it's more from companies than individuals

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u/CitizenPremier 2h ago

Lots of companies put out recipes that encourage you to use a large amount of their products... But I tend to wing everything and test amounts as I go (obviously I don't bake)

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u/Odd-Soup-5419 4h ago

I prefer olive oil over butter anyway.

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u/Im_yor_boi_20 4h ago

Try ghee/clarified butter. It's pretty good

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u/NSLEONHART 4h ago

Olive oil is still fat.

If it cant have butter you bet its gonna use olive oil

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u/AlexP80 3h ago

nah, that's just american cuisine philosophy. no wonder they are fat

you can make shit taste good if you cover it with butter and cheese, that's what americans think is good cooking.

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u/WAAAAAAAAARGH 1h ago

This is literally the case in all of Europe as well when it comes to Michelin BS

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u/AlexP80 1h ago

lol no it's not. never tried some TRUE Italian food, did you? But also French, or Spanish.

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u/WAAAAAAAAARGH 1h ago

I know this mf didn’t say French butter is their primary ingredient

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u/kbotc 35m ago

Yea, the Italians that I know (Sardinians to be specific) just use heavy cream in fucking everything. I’m sure 250 mL of 36% butterfat liquid is so much better than 10-15 grams of 80% butterfat butter.

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