They seem to be able to keep this in stock lately (unlike when the product first launched, when it was a crazy $9.99)
For comparison 500g of anchor butter at pack n save is $10.49.
Max 30kg per member.
If you prefer Salted butter (or smaller pack sizes), they have 4x227g (908g) for $10.99.
Made by Westland Milk Products, a dairy company based in Hokitika, New Zealand.
I can buy 30kg of butter but cant get 60 free range eggs.
Strange - I would have thought that many suppliers would be able to provide that.
I have a mate that can supply you 60 free range eggs.
Currently collection only, at only $3.75 per egg.
Collection is from the PNS Manukau Carpark.
Can also do you 30kg of butter at the same time if you wanted (60 x 500g packs) at $23.49 per 500g pack.
All orders to be pre-paid in full, no money back, no guarantees.
Just look out for their yellow three-wheeler.
It's amusing on eggs. Costco has had supply issues on eggs for a while now. (but regular supermarkets now seem to be fine).
Suspect they will drop the limits on butter soon. They had a lot in stock today, and supply / demand seems to have balanced out now with the $1 price hike.
Didn't expect that few blocks of butter in my freezer stocked up when they were $3.99 each can worth so much more now :D
I would be happy if supermarkets sold smaller packets of butter but didn’t charge a big premium for this. Eg if a 500 gm block of butter is normally $8, then half a block is $4.
I would be happy if supermarkets sold smaller packets of butter but didn’t charge a big premium for this. Eg if a 500 gm block of butter is normally $8, then half a block is $4.
Just buy an $8 block, cut it in half, re-wrap (I used the original wrapping, and put the other half in a butter-dish), and freeze one of the halves.
Butter is fine in the freezer for months at least (I have never found a limit on how long myself).
If wrapped well and stored in the dark it should last indefinitely.
It either goes bad due to oxidation (rancidification), or absorbing flavors from the surrounding air. Darkness slows down rancidification considerably, and wrapping well would prevent it coming into contact with off-flavours.
I randomly turned on BBC World News today and they were talking about our 'Butter Crisis'. The price is up 46.5% in the year till June and we make 500,000 tonnes annually, which is nearly half of the worlds butter supply…
I randomly turned on BBC World News today and they were talking about our 'Butter Crisis'. The price is up 46.5% in the year till June and we make 500,000 tonnes annually, which is nearly half of the worlds butter supply…
Whilst I have no idea of the absolute figures, it doesn't seem even vaguely credible that NZ produces anything like half the world's supply of butter.
I would be surprised if it was 10%, let alone 50%.
Nz makes 4 percent of the worlds butter but supplies 45% of international export markets. Basically other countries keep most of their butter for their own population and we keep nearly none for our own population
Nz makes 4 percent of the worlds butter but supplies 45% of international export markets. Basically other countries keep most of their butter for their own population and we keep nearly none for our own population
That sounds far more viable - either the reporter that @CrusaderNZ quoted was an idiot, or @CrusaderNZ misunderstood what the reporter was saying.
This explains it, lol
Yep - as I noted in reply to @Quote, that is vastly different to saying that NZ produces half the world's butter supply.
A few seconds of thought would tell anyone that original statement was just completely ludicrous :-)
It's not that we keep nearly none, it's that we make massively more than we use. NZ may have the highest butter consumption per person in the world
@morepork: True. Wow 5kg but 7kg of cheese? My butter cheese ratio is far different, much more cheese, much less butter
@quote: I'm the same, I don't actually buy much butter directly, but I assume that it's butter in other products. For example the pastry in a good pie has a heap of butter in it.
NZ may have the highest butter consumption per person(clal.it) in the world
Not really surprising, given how (relatively) cheap butter is here compared to most places in the world, notwithstanding what the media tries to tell us.
But we really shouldn't let the truth enter into the conversation ;-)
Fyi "when the product first launched" is a bit misleading.
They sold 1kg packs made up of 250g packs and did so for a long time. At some point they switched over to a single 1kg block. This coincided with the wider skyrocketing of butter prices at supermarkets, which triggered the rush on Costco.
I think in Oz they sell it like that but it is cheaper than what NZ supermarkets charge.
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I can buy 30kg of butter but cant get 60 free range eggs.