Speaking of holiday breads, where do restaurants get that fantastic butter in little gold foil packets?

I still have a box of them in my freezer left over from my son’s wedding. Hold on I will get it….
OK, here it is. Freezing cold…
Butter, Foil Wrapped Chips, 4.0 pounds, 200 portions, 9.08 grams Distributed by Keller’s Creamery LLC, Harleysville PA 19438
UPC 0 70801 61216 0
That should get you close.

Butter Fairy.

@iamthemob Melts in your mouth.

If you have a GFS (Gordon Food Service) in your area, they usually carry them. Any restaurant supply store will have them also.

You’d probably have to look at a food service company in your area or maybe Costco might have them.

If you like good butter, French butter is to die for. :)

Oooh….reading this is painful, I am starving and now all I can think of is a baguette with boatloads of butter. haha

I think they put crack or something in the restaurant butter. I just can’t get enough of it and I’ve never been able to find anything that tastes quite like it.

@Xena I’ll have to try that. I usually get Plugra, which @worriedguy, is also made by Keller but it doesn’t taste like the restaurant butter.

@Xena Do people really order butter from Amazon.com? That is so strange.

I’ve worked in a couple restaurants that had these. They got them from different distributors but the butter was always the same. It makes me wonder if there’s one great big foil-wrapped butter company further up the chain. Nobody has ever asked before, but I’d be totally okay with just giving away a bunch of these butters, especially if you bought some stuff to go along with it.

That stuff is good, and as @lillycoyote points out, Plugra is pretty good, too. The best butter I’ve ever tasted is Vermont Creamery cultured butter with sea salt crystals. The butter is made out of creme fraiche which gives it a pliable texture and a rich, nutty flavor, and the sea salt crystals give it a nice little crunch. I eat this with challah or brioche and a little bit of honey, and I’m in fat/sugar/carbohydrate heaven.

@lillycoyote – I don’t know, but it intrigues me! How is it possible to mail-order butter?? I kind of want to order it and see what happens! I mean, it is my favorite butter…

@Haleth – Oh man, that sounds really, really good.

—@Xena lol. I was thinking the same thing myself; that I might order some just to see how they do it but it just sounds so crazy.

We used to get smoked turkeys from Pittman & Davis every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas and they had it down to a science. The turkey arrived frozen, shipped UPS, in one of those styrofoam coolers and a fairly substantial one at that, exactly two days before the holiday and you just let it thaw in the refrigerator and then heated it up in the oven but that’s the extent of my experience with having perishable foods delivered to my house. It would just never occur to me to order butter from Amazon. I didn’t even know it was possible until you posted the link and I know you did it just because sometimes Amazon is the best link to a product that you can find; I just never thought that product would or could be butter!

I’m kind of a butter freak so I want to try the Vermont Creamery butter that @Haleth recommended too but they have an online store also. I just don’t know if I can get over my reluctance to ordering butter online. I will look for it and the Presidents butter too, in my local stores, I think, before I consider the online option.

The best butter I have found is a store label, Best Choice. It’s distributed by www.awgbrands.com. The unsalted butter tastes awesome, and it’s generally 50 cents to $1 cheaper than Land O’Lakes.

There are tons of really tasty butters out there, not just the ones in the tiny packages. I’d guess that most restaurant butters have more salt than those we commonly store at home. Since salt equals awesome (until it reaches the disgusting threshold), it’s easy to see why they taste so good. There might be a few other factors involved but in my experience those big blocks of premium butter that cost about one to two dollars more than generic is just about the best stuff you’ll ever taste.

@Smashley The premium butters also, I think, have more fat in them. At least Plugra does. It is 82% fat as opposed to most regular butters, which are about 80% fat. Who knew they could stuff even more fat into butter?

Thanks so much @worriedguy and everyone!