Cagney's - Whipped "Butter" - What Is It Really?

Just disembarked the Jade. Ate dinner several times at Cagney's. Partook of the bread and whipped "butter" on several occasions. I did not think it tasted like butter, real butter. In fact, I did not think it tasted like anything, kind of like whipped air. What do you think?

I ate once at Le Bistro. Ate the bread and butter. Now that tasted like butter, authentic butter.

Cagney's whipped butter always tasted like butter to me but you can probably ask for the little butter packets like they have in the buffet if you want to make sure.

Strange, on Breakaway last week we were given the packets of Presidential butter.

Just disembarked the Jade. Ate dinner several times at Cagney's. Partook of the bread and whipped "butter" on several occasions. I did not think it tasted like butter, real butter. In fact, I did not think it tasted like anything, kind of like whipped air. What do you think?

 

I ate once at Le Bistro. Ate the bread and butter. Now that tasted like butter, authentic butter.

It is butter but it has been "whipped" with air or gas to make it more spreadable.

I personally hate it. To me it has no taste (probably because by whipping it, it contains less butterfat). When whipped it gives it more volume without adding the butterfat. I like the butterfat!!!:hearteyes:

Whenever I get the "whipped" butter, I always ask for packets of butter.

In my experience, butter when added to a recipe, without any other overpowering competition, carries a distinct flavor note of butter. I cook with butter and without butter. I still detected no butter flavor in the whipped version at Cagney's.

Next time I will request identifiable (by label and by taste) butter be served to me.

Just disembarked the Jade. Ate dinner several times at Cagney's. Partook of the bread and whipped "butter" on several occasions. I did not think it tasted like butter, real butter. In fact, I did not think it tasted like anything, kind of like whipped air. What do you think?

 

I ate once at Le Bistro. Ate the bread and butter. Now that tasted like butter, authentic butter.

Lots of times the scoop of whipped butter on a steak is UNSALTED and has very little taste.

bosco

To make it easier to whip and aerate the butter used is also often bulk butter blend, unsalted and with some oil mixed in. Think Smart Balance. It's butter but generally not very good butter. Where as President was ranked as a top butter in a recent article I read...

Got mixed emotions about it. It does seem a bit lacking on flavor. However, it is really easy to just scoop out of the little butter containers and spread. I feel strongly about it both ways.

As we would say in New Zealand it is "Clayton's Butter". Just like butter but not really butter!!!

All whipped butter lacks flavor, in my opinion. But I would expect it to.

It is just whipped unsalted butter, it shouldn't have a string flavor.

It is just whipped unsalted butter, it shouldn't have a string flavor.

Never tried eating string. VBG

It has no taste because it’s stored next to the bananas.

This is a funny thread. Yeah, it is nice and easy to spread but has very little taste.

Maybe it is Chiffon....and don't fool mother nature.

Unsalted butter, whipped or not, is just like what it is made of, cream? Almost no flavor in cream...

bosco

President and similar butters have more taste, whether salted or unsalted, because they are made using cultured (fermented) cream rather than plain cream.

Might as well spray Pam on your bread as use unsalted butter. On the plus side, makes it easy to skip the bread calories.