Canned Butter Special
 

I admit it, I'm a butter junkie. One guy who sells NZ Red Feather canned butter has a special going. Ends midnight Pacific the 23rd. If you buy 4 24 can cases they are $89.95 each. The cans are 12oz and the butter tastes good.

The promotion code is 4W124.

So any butterholics who want long storage butter and can afford the nearly $400 with shipping, you'll have butter that needs no refrigeration, is lightly salted and not artificially colored.

This is the company and I have ordered there before with no problems.

IMO if you buy their canned cheese the Bega is a lot better than the Kraft, which is pretty velveeta like, though it would serve well in melted cheese applications.

http://www.mredepot.com/servlet/the-...-butter/Detail

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Looks good. But I'm not impressed with a phone call leaving me with a generic message saying 'sorry mailbox full, not enough space to leave message.'

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Steve is a one man operation from what I understand. He has a great rap and is very busy. An email might get through quicker but don't count on it.

I have 4 cases that I bought 2 years ago. Good stuff.

EDIT: He is in Cali. So the shipping to the east coast is expensive.

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Thanks. I was waiting to hear a report on the cheeze before I bought some. :23_1_22:

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Thanks,:ok: I went for it, we have a case that we got into, cuz we were out and we needed an excuse to try it......indefinite shelf life, one of the better prep items to have on hand.


Butter makes everything taste better.

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http://www.endtimesreport.com/canning_butter.html http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/327278

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Your first link butter costs more than the sale (3.75 a can vs 4.60), but you don't have to buy 4 cases. And MRE depot is out of the cheese right now. (the Bega is now on the Red Feather label) but your first link has it in stock. Good links!

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Thanks for the heads-up, got me some butter!

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But, $80 for shipping 72 pounds to Indiana!? I don't think so.

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Has anyone opened an old can of this butter to taste it? I'm not convince the shelf life is as long as some people are claiming. I opened some of the first case I bought, I think it was maybe a year and a half old. It already tasted noticably different then the newer cans I have. It tastes a tad like stale butter. Its still useable, but its not as fresh as when it was new. The people at internet-grocer claim to have eaten cans that were three years old. The LDS preparedness manual going around the net states an 18 month shelf life on canned butter based on the manufacturers recomendation. 18 months sounds more reasonable then "indefinite" considering fats are know to go rancid.


"CANNED BUTTER: For those whom only the real thing

will do it�s now possible to find shelf stable real butter. It
seems mostly to be sold in those nations where home
refrigeration is not as common as it is here in the U.S. As
a rule I do not single out suppliers for any given product
but at the time of this writing (11/2003) the only U.S.
importer of shelf stable canned butter I�ve been able to
find is Bruce Hopkin�s Internet Grocer (http://
www.internet-grocer.com). His product is Red Feather
brand canned butter from New Zealand. It is salted though
not as heavily as most salted butter in the U.S. The
manufacturer claims an eighteen month shelf-stable storage
life though they do advise keeping it in a cool, dry place.
Like all butter it will liquefy it allowed to warm too much.
Each can contains twelve ounces (equivalent to about three
sticks of butter) and once opened should be handled like
any other butter."

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I don't doubt what you say is true. I just don't understand the mechanism that causes fats to go rancid when they are stored in a can and not exposed to oxygen. Is the problem that there is sufficient oxygen dissolved in the butter itself to cause it to go bad? Surely there's a chemist or two on the board who can speak to this question.

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Everything seems to keep in nicer condition cool, from freeze dried to crisco. We opened a 10 year old can of crisco and found it edible, but a bit off compared to fresh.

We live in a hot climate and I need to put in a root cellar for cooler storage.

But this canned butter was aimed at hot climates like the outback and ME and likely keeps better than most oils. Ghee (clarified butter) keeps well in hot India.

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I haven't actually tried this commercial product yet, even though I have a case stored in the basement with my food preps. But I'm currently working through a pint of home-canned butter that I put up 3/18/2006. It seems to be perfectly fine in flavor. It's not exactly like fresh butter because all the water has been boiled away. I'm using it primarily for frying foods and it works really well for that. Family members have not noticed :yippee:

The home-canning process involved boiling away the water, sterilizing the jars in the oven, and shaking the canned butter as it cooled. None of this process involved a pressure canner. And, I'm sure that the commercially canned product is technically safer. But, if my home-canned butter is good after 2 1/2 years, I have to believe that the New Zealand canned butter is better.