We go through at least a dozen pounds of butter a month and buy only the Costco unsalted organic butter for $2.48 a pound.

butter boat

I have a covered metal dish I keep one stick of butter in on the counter. I never heard of a butter 'boat' I looked them up and they are a neat idea. I learn new stuff all the time here, thank you!

I tried Isigny Ste-Mere! It's similar to my old favorite USA table butter, but not enough so to buy it regularly. The store that has it is far. It's very nice. :) AFAIK, the big difference in butter flavor, not including culturing, and the richness factor of more or less butterfat, is what the milkstock eat. The title of a chapter in a sequel to My Friend Flika, which I read as a tween, was Onions Make the Milk Taste Bad. The inverse is also true. Cows eating grass, or oats, or hay give different flavor milks, and, as we know, the fat (butterfat) carries the flavor. I don't know if pasteurization affects the flavor, because I think they use raw milk.