Cooking with Powered Butter?

[Sundodger]

Anyone here use powered butter in the backcountry?

I like to take butter or oil to pan fry up fish and grouse, but was looking to see if powered butter could be a light weight substitute.

My Google searches have only found people baking and such with it, not using it as a lubricant.

 

[Becca]

I don't think it will work as a lubricant...it is more like butter flavoring, think that stuff you shake on popcorn to give it butter flavor.

I usually bring a few little single serving cups or packets of butter or margarine (like what you get at KFC) to use as a cooking lubricant. The butter sometimes meltd in hot weather, but it still works fine. Olive oil packets work well too...

 

[Sundodger]

Thank you Becca. Too bad, that would be a slick set up. They must get the fats out of powdered butter or something.

Have you ever used clarified butter? That seems to be something in-between (butter with less water).

What olive oil packets do you use and where do you buy them?

Thanks!

 

[Becca]

Thank you Becca. Too bad, that would be a slick set up. They must get the fats out of powdered butter or something.

Have you ever used clarified butter? That seems to be something in-between (butter with less water).

What olive oil packets do you use and where do you buy them?

Thanks!

I have heard of clarified butter, but haven't tried it myself. I suspect it might present some packaging challenges...

The olive oil packets I have used came from the condiment drawer at work, nothing special really...likely from some food delivery place. Here is a similar product from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Catania-Spagn...=1371534806&sr=8-4&keywords=olive+oil+packets

 

[larryschwartz]

Becca,

Clarified butter is actually butter with the fats taken out and the oil and flavor left in. It is preferred in some recipes because its burning point is higher than regular butter.

Larry

 

[Bearhunter]

Like Becca pointed out, olive oil packets are the bomb! I love KFC for all there packet confiments, I have about 100 Tobasco packets as well LOL

 

[Curtis C]

I mix the granulated butter flavoring with some brown sugar and cinnamon when I am packaging my oatmeal for backcountry trips.

 

[jquarnberg]

I also have been mixing powdered butter and powdered milk in a zip lock with two packs of peaches and cream oatmeal for a nice creaming breakfast.

I also used the powdered butter cooking fish in the back country. Just covered the fish in the butter with lemon pepper seasoning and wrapped in foil to cook in the fire. I liked it.

 

[MCKROB]

Harvest Food Works Powdered Shortening works really well for pan frying...

http://www.harvestfoodworks.com/view-product/?id=504