How to Smoke a Whole Turkey
Here is a quick tutorial on how to brine and smoke a turkey using products from Meatchurch and Banner Butter. You can use Sea Salt butter, Smoked Salt butter, or even get more creative with our BBQ butter. Meatchurch Pit Master, Matt Pittman, partnered with Banner...
Butter and Cheese Pairings with Michael Landis
Last week our Head Churner, Jonathan, and Cheese Professional, Michael Landis, hosted a webinar via Zoom to talk about all things butter! They discussed what sets Banner Butter apart and explored cheese and charcuterie pairings from our friends at The Spotted Trotter....The significant difference between big box butter and slow-cultured butter
It’s Sunday afternoon and you’re strolling the grocery store preparing for the big week ahead. You’ve hit up the produce section, the pasta section, and butcher’s counter, and now you’ve landed in the dairy aisle. There are at least ten different kinds of butter to...
Be A Sauce Boss: Velouté
Chef Marc Suennemann of Trade Root at The Whitley shows us how to make velouté and whips up a fabulous chicken dish topped with this freshly made mother sauce. Instructions from Chef Marc: Velouté (prounounced “vuh-loo-TAY”) is one of the five mother sauces of...
Win the Ultimate Surf and Turf Cooking Package
Banner Butter Friends: we’re partnering with Greensbury, Made In Cookware, True Made Foods, & Big Green Egg in a week-long competition to for you to win the Ultimate Surf ‘n’ Turf Collection prizes for the perfect Surf ‘n’ Turf feast! Enter for a chance to win:...
Top Uses for Butter by State
Butter in its purest form is a soft yellow emulsion of butterfat, water, and air churned from high-quality cream for the purpose of making your food taste delicious. Each state has its own unique way of employing the creamy yellow stuff to maximum flavor in its...A Definitive Guide to Butter Spreads That Want to Taste Like Real Butter, But Don’t
You know how the story goes: somewhere along the line, the butter aisle got saturated with a bunch of butter wannabes masking as the real thing, but not-so-secretly containing whack ingredients such as vegetable oil and natural and artificial flavorings and...
Top 5 Butter Stories of 2017
Here’s your butter news recap for the year: 1. Man sues Dunkin Donuts for slathering margarine on their bagels and calling it butter. We’re not one for frivolous lawsuits but claiming margarine is butter is a crime. 2. Butter Shortage in France The Cri de Coeur...Browning Butter with Banner Butter
How to brown butter – what to look for and how you know when it’s done! Brown butter, also called beurre noisette, elevates the flavor of just about everything. It’s simple to make, and you can stash it away for up to two weeks. You know, just in case...In The Banner Butter Kitchen
Get a sneak peek inside the workings of our cultured butter production, and a glimpse of our butter in action at one of our favorite local restaurants, Buttermilk Kitchen, in this mouthwatering video produced by 7th and Wes.
How Science Almost Killed the Art of Butter Making
By Banner founder, Drew McBath. Originally seen in CRAFT by Under My Host. The essence of butter making remained the same for thousands of years – milk from a (a cow, yak, buffalo, goat etc. that was close by) was separated into cream, by gravity or otherwise,...
The Secret Ingredient that Made New York Steak Houses Great (it isn’t steak)
Peter Luger, Est. 1887, L.I. New York. Photo by Paul Piasecki When actress and onetime mistress to English royalty Lillie Langtry, entered Keens Steakhouse in 1905, she presumably had one goal: eat a delicious steak. Keens, then a men’s-only establishment, was already...