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Ghee: is it really better for you than butter?
Posted on 10/12/17 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 7:37 pm
My sister, who seems to know a lot about the nutritional value of foods, claims that Ghee is better for you than butter, and even went so far as to say it's good for you. She says lots of old-line traditional restaurants (including Galatoire's) use it generously.
Is it really less harmful than butter, or is it just a culinary loophole to reduce butter-guilt?
Is it really less harmful than butter, or is it just a culinary loophole to reduce butter-guilt?
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Posted on 10/12/17 at 7:52 pm to tigerpawl
It’s all crap. My grandfather is 94 and he bitched at my mom as a kid when she used margarine and sweet and low.
“Real butter, sugar, and bourbon.”
“Real butter, sugar, and bourbon.”
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:02 pm to tigerpawl
Why would I want to live to be 100 and never eat butter?
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:09 pm to tigerpawl
Ghee, I don't know
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:14 pm to tigerpawl
Ghee is nice due to the higher smoke point.
Never heard it was better for you.
Never heard it was better for you.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:16 pm to tigerpawl
If your sister truly "knows a lot about the nutritional value of foods" she would know that the Butter farce is bullshite. And as time goes by more and more doctors and researchers say the whole cholesterol scheme is bullshite
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:20 pm to tigerpawl
No it’s still butterfat, the only difference is the solids have been removed and the water has been boiled out. I use it for higher heat searing and blackening with excellent results.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:39 pm to Trout Bandit
In India, we only use ghee. we don't use butter at all. not sure if it's more healthy. ghee is homemade in most of the families though
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:45 pm to tigerpawl
It's just clarified butter. Not sure on her logic to claim butter is healthier for you than..... BUTTER!
Posted on 10/12/17 at 9:25 pm to BigDropper
Ghee and butter are different.
It's better for you certainly if you have issues with lactose.
And it doesn't break down at higher heat which allegedly is better for you.
It's better for you certainly if you have issues with lactose.
And it doesn't break down at higher heat which allegedly is better for you.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 9:27 pm to tigerpawl
Ghee is butter 
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:49 pm to tigerpawl
Better for you, no, just more suited to high heat.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:57 pm to tigerpawl
Butter isn’t harmful. The butter is bad for you myth needs to die a quick death.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 2:08 am to rbWarEagle
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The butter is bad for you myth needs to die a quick death.
Yep. Sugar is way more harmful for us that butter. But people keeping loading them pancakes up with maple syrup.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 5:55 am to tigerpawl
Pan sear your salmon in ghee.. comes out beautiful
Posted on 10/13/17 at 1:30 pm to tigerpawl
It's not worse.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 1:58 pm to Treacherous Cretin
Ghee can lower your cholesterol LDLs similar to Olive Oil. So it is "better" for you. But like others have pointed out, butter is not the devil we once thought it was if consumed in moderation. The problem is, most people consume butter in excess.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 2:38 pm to tigerpawl
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Is it really less harmful than butter, or is it just a culinary loophole to reduce butter-guilt?
Ghee is less harmful if you are lactose intolerant.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 12:37 pm to tigerpawl
Decided to make it since it is a lot cheaper. $8.00 for 4 pounds unsalted butter .
30 minutes medium heat. Made 3 1/2 pints.
30 minutes medium heat. Made 3 1/2 pints.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 12:54 pm to Martini
Yum!
You have heard my bla bla bla stories about working the grill at a burger place (T-Willies Frostop - Jackson, MS) during my high school days.
We kept a big glass root beer mug of butter on the flat top side of the grill vent, above the grills. It stayed hot up there and the solids quickly separated. Mr. Wilson's instructions were to spoon away the solids and chunk them.
Then for a grilled cheese, we had the clarified butter handy with a brush to butter the bread as we put them on the grill. We also used New England style hot dog buns that were buttered on the sides and toasted before making the hotdog.
The clarified butter was so good for those two uses. In those days, I had no idea it was Ghee, only that it worked very well.
New England style buns are hard to find here, but I have good memories of those chili hot dogs. They were good sellers and I must have made 10,000 of them.
You have heard my bla bla bla stories about working the grill at a burger place (T-Willies Frostop - Jackson, MS) during my high school days.
We kept a big glass root beer mug of butter on the flat top side of the grill vent, above the grills. It stayed hot up there and the solids quickly separated. Mr. Wilson's instructions were to spoon away the solids and chunk them.
Then for a grilled cheese, we had the clarified butter handy with a brush to butter the bread as we put them on the grill. We also used New England style hot dog buns that were buttered on the sides and toasted before making the hotdog.
The clarified butter was so good for those two uses. In those days, I had no idea it was Ghee, only that it worked very well.
New England style buns are hard to find here, but I have good memories of those chili hot dogs. They were good sellers and I must have made 10,000 of them.
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