Bill Gates-backed startup makes 'butter' out of water and carbon dioxide
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To make this alternative butter, you don't need land, livestock, or crops.

A California-based startup called Savor has figured out a unique way to make a butter alternative that doesn’t involve livestock, plants, or even displacing land. Their butter is produced from synthetic fat made using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and the best part is —- it tastes just like regular butter.

  • Obinice
    11•1 month ago

    Have you tried good proper butter? Not that weird white stuff Americans make. Actual flavourful yellow Irish butter.

    Margarine tastes okay and I use it all the time, but it’s a pale imitation of the real thing.

    • Fushuan [he/him]English
      2•1 month ago

      Yeah, being from the northern part of Spain I have tasted plenty French butters, I still prefer margarine. Taste is subjective so it’s better not to have prejudices about food since those prejudices might be from someone with different taste buds.

    • @AsidonhopoEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      French butter like Prèsident is so good, better than Irish butter in my opinion.

      • @AnUnusualRelic
        2•1 month ago

        And that’s considered one of the fairly inferior choices.

        • @AsidonhopoEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          Oh no doubt, I saw it in Walmart though so it was easy to try

    • @hperrin
      1•1 month ago

      Yeah, I have. If you put that and a good vegan butter substitute on toast back to back, I might be able to tell the difference, but if you put them in a dish, I definitely wouldn’t. Yeah, margarine isn’t very good. There are much better substitutes than margarine.

      • dream_weasel
        1•1 month ago

        Idk, every vegan butter I’ve ever had (4 different ones now) taste like the crappy diner butter that comes in a little paper boat with the thin paper film over the top. It’s fine I guess, but “butter” is overstating what is really just a barely spreadable, low taste spread.