imported butter price

[M Z]

Can any1 provide me recent imported butter price in thailand with weight..

[AyG]

See http://shoponline.tescolotus.com/en-GB/Product/BrowseProducts?taxonomyId=Cat00001333

The weights, in grams, are in the text immediately below the images.

[M Z]

Can any1 provide me recent imported butter price in thailand with weight..

[M Z]

@AyG..thangs a million..it helped alot..

[ratcatcher]

Can any1 provide me recent imported butter price in thailand with weight..

If anyone on here's still reading this thread, Makro sells imported butter from New Zealand (Anchor) and the E.U. (Emborg).

Anchor is available single 250g for about B85 and in a 4 slab pack for B320

Emborg is packed in 200g slabs and is about B85

That was as of around May 28th. Nowhere sells butter from those 2 areas cheaper than Makro.

[meatboy]

Can any1 provide me recent imported butter price in thailand with weight..

If anyone on here's still reading this thread, Makro sells imported butter from New Zealand (Anchor) and the E.U. (Emborg).

Anchor is available single 250g for about B85 and in a 4 slab pack for B320

Emborg is packed in 200g slabs and is about B85

That was as of around May 28th. Nowhere sells butter from those 2 areas cheaper than Makro.

makro anchor now sells for 92bht.and its 227grms.

allowie sells 93bht.same as anchor 227grms.

butter has gone up 4times in the past yr. why.

because farangs use butter daily.

[quidnunc]

Can any1 provide me recent imported butter price in thailand with weight..

If anyone on here's still reading this thread, Makro sells imported butter from New Zealand (Anchor) and the E.U. (Emborg).

Anchor is available single 250g for about B85 and in a 4 slab pack for B320

Emborg is packed in 200g slabs and is about B85

That was as of around May 28th. Nowhere sells butter from those 2 areas cheaper than Makro.

makro anchor now sells for 92bht.and its 227grms.

allowie sells 93bht.same as anchor 227grms.

butter has gone up 4times in the past yr. why.

because farangs use butter daily.

Price of butter has gone up because the world price of butter has gone up.

[meatboy]

so its all down to the "cows" that produce it.

and why is it that salted butter is more expensive.

[Jip99]

Can any1 provide me recent imported butter price in thailand with weight..

If anyone on here's still reading this thread, Makro sells imported butter from New Zealand (Anchor) and the E.U. (Emborg).

Anchor is available single 250g for about B85 and in a 4 slab pack for B320

Emborg is packed in 200g slabs and is about B85

That was as of around May 28th. Nowhere sells butter from those 2 areas cheaper than Makro.

makro anchor now sells for 92bht.and its 227grms.

allowie sells 93bht.same as anchor 227grms.

butter has gone up 4times in the past yr. why.

because farangs use butter daily.

Farangs eat potatoes everyday but Makro spud prices now are lower than 3 years ago.

[meatboy]

Thai's love their chips and mash,mcdonalds and kfc. but no butter.

that's why spuds are cheaper.

[harrry]

Allowerie is not imported.

I thought it was too and it is a serious misuse of the kangaroo symbol.

i cannot link as it is from the Bangkok post but it is manafactured on Sukemvit 103 and another location.

Edited June 2, 2014 by harrry

[lazygourmet]

Echire -demi sel- butter is for me the best available in Thailand (Central Food Hall)

But it costs nearly double price than the other brands previously mentioned.

[quidnunc]

Haven't tried the Dechire but the Emborg unsalted butter is first rate. I was pleasantly surprised by this since I once had some of Parmesan (Padano) and it tasted like cheddar cheese. To be fair, it tasted like good cheddar cheese.

[Zatoichi]

And whats up with this butter "product" or butter spread? Ive seen them try and pass off as real butter, something like 42%?

[harrry]

Haven't tried the Dechire but the Emborg unsalted butter is first rate. I was pleasantly surprised by this since I once had some of Parmesan (Padano) and it tasted like cheddar cheese. To be fair, it tasted like good cheddar cheese.

That is something sold in the west too. it is a mixture of butter for flavour and margarine for less saturated fats and greater spreadibility and to enable it to be refrigerated without going too hard to spread and left on the table longer.

[billd766]

I usually pay about 750 baht at Makro for Allowrie or Anchor but that is for a 5kg pack.

I then slice it into about 24 pieces, bag it individually and freeze it. I have been doing it for years.

It still tastes Ok and at 250 baht per kg is much cheaper than the smaller packs.

[quidnunc]

I usually pay about 750 baht at Makro for Allowrie or Anchor but that is for a 5kg pack.

I then slice it into about 24 pieces, bag it individually and freeze it. I have been doing it for years.

It still tastes Ok and at 250 baht per kg is much cheaper than the smaller packs.

But it's not butter. It's a blend of butter oil and other vegetable fats. The good news for you is it's only 150 baht per kilo.

[harrry]

I usually pay about 750 baht at Makro for Allowrie or Anchor but that is for a 5kg pack.

I then slice it into about 24 pieces, bag it individually and freeze it. I have been doing it for years.

It still tastes Ok and at 250 baht per kg is much cheaper than the smaller packs.

But it's not butter. It's a blend of butter oil and other vegetable fats. The good news for you is it's only 150 baht per kilo.

Made in Thailand from skim milk powder and who knows what.

Edited June 4, 2014 by harrry

[meatboy]

I usually pay about 750 baht at Makro for Allowrie or Anchor but that is for a 5kg pack.

I then slice it into about 24 pieces, bag it individually and freeze it. I have been doing it for years.

It still tastes Ok and at 250 baht per kg is much cheaper than the smaller packs.

But it's not butter. It's a blend of butter oil and other vegetable fats. The good news for you is it's only 150 baht per kilo.

Made in Thailand from skim milk powder and who knows what.

I allways thought that home produced in Thailand was cheaper than imported as to protect WHO? I use allowei and anchor [salted] allowie has always been dearer.maybe its the cows that are imported.

[quidnunc]

I usually pay about 750 baht at Makro for Allowrie or Anchor but that is for a 5kg pack.

I then slice it into about 24 pieces, bag it individually and freeze it. I have been doing it for years.

It still tastes Ok and at 250 baht per kg is much cheaper than the smaller packs.

But it's not butter. It's a blend of butter oil and other vegetable fats. The good news for you is it's only 150 baht per kilo.

Made in Thailand from skim milk powder and who knows what.

I allways thought that home produced in Thailand was cheaper than imported as to protect WHO? I use allowei and anchor [salted] allowie has always been dearer.maybe its the cows that are imported.

allowrie also makes 100% butter

[AyG]

allowrie also makes 100% butter

Not according to the label they don't. Their version of butter is made from:

80% butter oil

2% salt

2% skimmed milk powder

The balance is, I presume, water since proper butter is about 80% fat.

It looks as if they're importing butter oil, then emulsifying it before putting it in a pack labelled "butter" and adding an antipodean logo.

[billd766]

I usually pay about 750 baht at Makro for Allowrie or Anchor but that is for a 5kg pack.

I then slice it into about 24 pieces, bag it individually and freeze it. I have been doing it for years.

It still tastes Ok and at 250 baht per kg is much cheaper than the smaller packs.

But it's not butter. It's a blend of butter oil and other vegetable fats. The good news for you is it's only 150 baht per kilo.

It still tastes OK to me but you are correct about my maths. Please accept my apologies for that but I did leave school at 15 some 55 years ago.

[quidnunc]

allowrie also makes 100% butter

Not according to the label they don't. Their version of butter is made from:

80% butter oil

2% salt

2% skimmed milk powder

The balance is, I presume, water since proper butter is about 80% fat.

It looks as if they're importing butter oil, then emulsifying it before putting it in a pack labelled "butter" and adding an antipodean logo.

I'm not sur that the "skimmed milk powder" means what it looks like. It may be a somewhat bizarre Thai to English translaton of "nonfat milk solids" which all churned butter contains. It can't be cheaper to take butter oil (ghee) and reconvert it to a butter substitute. Doesn't make financial sense.

[AyG]

I'm not sur that the "skimmed milk powder" means what it looks like. It may be a somewhat bizarre Thai to English translaton of "nonfat milk solids" which all churned butter contains. It can't be cheaper to take butter oil (ghee) and reconvert it to a butter substitute. Doesn't make financial sense.

Skimmed milk powder is a perfectly cromulent English expression. Basically you take fat-removed milk and dry it. (Usually a spray-dry process.) It's mostly protein and sugars and gives flavour to the finished product.

And yes, it can be cheaper to take butter oil and convert it into butter substitute. For a start, butter goes rancid quite quickly. (Remember milk is a seasonal product.) Store butter oil under nitrogen and it will be fine for months, if not years. Butter oil also doesn't need close temperature control during transport, again reducing costs.

[quidnunc]

I'm not sur that the "skimmed milk powder" means what it looks like. It may be a somewhat bizarre Thai to English translaton of "nonfat milk solids" which all churned butter contains. It can't be cheaper to take butter oil (ghee) and reconvert it to a butter substitute. Doesn't make financial sense.

Skimmed milk powder is a perfectly cromulent English expression. Basically you take fat-removed milk and dry it. (Usually a spray-dry process.) It's mostly protein and sugars and gives flavour to the finished product.

And yes, it can be cheaper to take butter oil and convert it into butter substitute. For a start, butter goes rancid quite quickly. (Remember milk is a seasonal product.) Store butter oil under nitrogen and it will be fine for months, if not years. Butter oil also doesn't need close temperature control during transport, again reducing costs.

Milk may be a seasonal product in temperate places, but is it seasonal here? I do know that there is such a thing as skim milk powder,(although I would stipulate that it is not at all cromulent). I was just wondering if the thais were calling nonfat milk solids by that name.

[meatboy]

being brought up from a baby on welsh salty butter I was concerned about what I would buy here,but allowie salted is ok,and anchor salted which says on the packageing pure new Zealand butter,what I can understand is,produced in indonnesia.

[harrry]

being brought up from a baby on welsh salty butter I was concerned about what I would buy here,but allowie salted is ok,and anchor salted which says on the packageing pure new Zealand butter,what I can understand is,produced in indonnesia.

How can New Zealand butter be made in Indonesia. Do they have refrigerated cream tankers travelling from New Zealand to Indonesia. This is obviously another use of Butter oil and the process of making "Butter" from cream and from butter oil is not the same.

As the old Castrol advertisments said...."Oils aint Oils." and we can say the same about "Butter"

[meatboy]

being brought up from a baby on welsh salty butter I was concerned about what I would buy here,but allowie salted is ok,and anchor salted which says on the packageing pure new Zealand butter,what I can understand is,produced in indonnesia.

How can New Zealand butter be made in Indonesia. Do they have refrigerated cream tankers travelling from New Zealand to Indonesia. This is obviously another use of Butter oil and the process of making "Butter" from cream and from butter oil is not the same.

As the old Castrol advertisments said...."Oils aint Oils." and we can say the same about "Butter"

well harry I think its time to try and make sense of the labeling,anchor is butter oil,but what has alarmed me is in very small lettering it contains 4gms.of trans.fat per 100grms.that means about 9grms per block.

I am sure anything containing trans fat is banned in the uk. that's the last lot of anchor I buy.

no wonder these supermarkets love to stick labels over what it contains.

[harrry]

being brought up from a baby on welsh salty butter I was concerned about what I would buy here,but allowie salted is ok,and anchor salted which says on the packageing pure new Zealand butter,what I can understand is,produced in indonnesia.

How can New Zealand butter be made in Indonesia. Do they have refrigerated cream tankers travelling from New Zealand to Indonesia. This is obviously another use of Butter oil and the process of making "Butter" from cream and from butter oil is not the same.

As the old Castrol advertisments said...."Oils aint Oils." and we can say the same about "Butter"

well harry I think its time to try and make sense of the labeling,anchor is butter oil,but what has alarmed me is in very small lettering it contains 4gms.of trans.fat per 100grms.that means about 9grms per block.

I am sure anything containing trans fat is banned in the uk. that's the last lot of anchor I buy.

no wonder these supermarkets love to stick labels over what it contains.

A type of trans fat occurs naturally in the milk and body fat of ruminants (such as cattle and sheep) at a level of 2–5% of total fat.^[43] Natural trans fats, which include conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and vaccenic acid, originate in the rumen of these animals. CLA has two double bonds, one in the cis configuration and one in trans, which makes it simultaneously a cis- and a trans-fatty acid. (wikipaedia)

I would not know about the science but to me neither the anchor or the allowrie taste like butter. They all have an overtaste which while I will not say is rancid is not very nice.

I do not like the idea of products being called the same as the original if they are produced totally diferently and hence are not the same and this is one of the places this applies.

Possibly for people who have not eaten the original the product may be acceptible, to me it is not butter and does not taste like it and I cannot enjoy eating it.

[lopburi3]

Orchid is the only name you need for butter in Thailand. It is made here and tastes better than any imported product in my opinion and that of all members of extended family. As there production was seriously damaged by the flooding two years ago and is only now back to normal availability we have been forced to try just about every import and none were close in taste quality for us (understand others may have different choice in taste but believe this is a quality product). I will add the only other place I had butter with as good a taste was Nairobi in Kenya so yes my opinion may not be shared by all.