Anyone else wishing they'd actually bought canned butter?

I found out about canned butter and cheese years ago - first weirded out by it (really rare here in the US) and then excited by it -, but I never actually bought it. Then I wished I had already when the price increased (slightly) and it was 'always' our of stock... I knew I'd regret it if didn't then but I didn't..... and now I'm there; I regret not buying that "overpriced" butter. Well, sigh, butter in the fridge section now costs more per pound than the canned butter did just a few years ago. (canned butter, dented for discount)

canning your own - I think that melting the butter first and skimming off the milk proteins ("clarified butter", ghee) and then canning just the oil may be a good way to go about it. The benefits of raw butter went away at the butter stage anyway, so might as well eliminate the portion that is more likely to be problematic. mmmm, the imagery of all that liquid gold on a shelf.

And as for cheese - I'm sure that is just as apparent to all of you in price increase.

When the people relinquished their freedoms to the gov't over and over in our past generations they sure weren't thinking of the future. And now we have a big scarred tangled web that is going to have to fall before the masses are willing to tear it down and straighten it out.
[educate yourself! recent subsidies in US and abroad, nutrition replaced by big power holders,...)

But while the masses catch up and the knowledgeable reject the truth there are some that are there still doing it right and so I do still have a source for raw grass fed butter that "I suppose" is still "cheap" enough. (How much longer will we have groups such as these be able to source it for us?!)
But I HAVE to track down cheese wax for a "cheap enough" price if I'm going to do that. So anyone have any ideas?! Yes, I know, I can buy it on the internet. (wax) I just have to make it happen. ( waxing cheese - many others are even better)

....and in the meantime, I'm going to keep my peepers [eyes] open for info on raising goats :)




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