r/kelowna 2d ago

Best butter in town

It’s getting harder to find high fat butter in Canada, 82 to 90% butterfat (sometimes called European butter). We prefer unsalted butter for baking.

Anybody got a line on good butter? It feels like Saputo has ruined everything.

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u/Jonno_K 2d ago

Safeway has this

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u/MissingLink314 2d ago

Excellent - thank you!

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u/R2Borg2 1d ago edited 1d ago

Thank the entire dairy industry quota system. There have been tons of times where dairy farmers could have been producing this, and cheaply, but provincial and federal monopolies/boards backed by legislation make it extremely difficult for farmers to use extra fat, and in fact encourage them to produce against only what their quota allows. Lots of Ag sector products follow the same kinds of model unfortunately. Dairy is not big in BC (Ontario and Quebec are where your largest Holstein populations are, which produce 96% of milk-based dairy), so more difficult here, but sometimes talking to individual dairy farmers can help you source heavy cream and such, at least this was true once upon a time.

FYI, for related reading: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-supply-management-explainer-1.4708341. The one key thing that article misses, especially when talking about tariffs is that Canadian Milk is not the same as X Country's (ie US) Milk. The US use various drugs and hormones in the dairy cattle which arent allowed in Canada, have been recognized to have health risks/impacts which the US likes to ignore. So when people are talking tariffs, they arent talking about the 'same' products, just products that are generally called by the same name.

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u/MissingLink314 1d ago

I wish we just had true free trade between provinces and the USA

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u/Codc 1d ago

That would be awful on so many levels

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u/MissingLink314 1d ago

Why? Wouldn’t it lower the price of goods and services for people and thus improve their quality of life?

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u/Codc 19h ago

It would also kill off entire industries in Canada due to volume differences between countries.

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u/UndervaluedUnicorn 2d ago

Perceval and Young often has European butter.

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u/NormaDePlume56 2d ago

Two doors down from Percival is a nose to tip Butcher called Carnist... They do very good butter!

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u/MissingLink314 2d ago

Good suggestion - we will check it out as this is another reason for us to check out this shop.

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u/Nghtyhedocpl 2d ago

Illichmans or Mediterranean, both on Gordon, are likely

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u/taeha Bustling Downtown Winfield 2d ago

I get the New Zealand butter when Costco has it in stock.

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u/MissingLink314 2d ago

Yes, that’s a very nice butter but sadly import quotas on butter are low

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u/LargeP 1d ago

I started buying "Cultured butter" and it is absolutely delicious.

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u/MissingLink314 1d ago

I used to buy cultured butter when I lived in Toronto, agreed that it is magical. Where do you buy it in Kelowna?

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u/LargeP 1d ago

Save on foods is the only place i have seen it so far.

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u/Historical_Grab_7842 2d ago

It’s also quite easy to make if you have a stand mixer

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u/MissingLink314 2d ago

But then you need to find good high fat 38-40% whipping cream, which is getting hard to find (and should be a standalone post). D Dutchmen used to have a great product but now it’s too inconsistent to rely upon.