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I Asked 7 Chefs and They All Agree That This Is the Best Butter

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You could certainly whip up a batch of homemade butter. But why make a mess of your kitchen when there are outstanding, easy-to-measure sticks in stock at your local supermarket? Settling on one brand is the hard part. We get it: The butter section of the dairy case can be as overwhelming as the cereal aisle. How do you even begin to narrow down the options?

To help you do just that, we reached out to chefs, bakers, cookbook authors, and culinary pros to help us hone in on the best of the best. A sneak preview of coming attractions: The victor just so happens to be Martha Stewart’s favorite butter (and Stanley Tucci’sand Bobby Flay’s... you get the idea). It’s also the brand that came out on top of the best dairy category in our 2024 Golden Cart Awards for groceries.

Read on to learn more about what food experts look for in their “best butter,” including whether salted or unsalted is your best bet. Then we’re revealing their selection for the best butter brand and are dishing about how to use it to make your sweet and savory creations richer and more delicious than ever.

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The 5 Costco Prepared Foods to Avoid, According to Customers

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The prepared foods section at Costco is diverse, affordable and delicious—the perfect solution for picking up a quick dinner on a busy night or a ready-to-eat dish for a potluck. In fact, the prepared mealsare quite popular with customers and there is a wide variety to choose from.

However, a couple of items seem to be less satisfying and not worth the purchase, according to Costco fans and customers on Reddit. Actually, several users had a lot to say in a Reddit thread discussing the worst Costco prepared foods available based on personal experience and preference. (Plus, for the most part, users agreed on which ones to avoid, creating a general consensus.) 

Here are the top suggestions from Redditors on which prepared foods to skip the next time you go to Costco.

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The Stupid Simple Trick for Better French Toast

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There are so many great uses for stale bread. Panzanella, the rustic Italian bread salad, is a versatile way to use it up. Another great use for stale bread is to make it the base of a savory or a sweet breakfast casserole. The stale bread works well in these recipes because the moisture in the wet ingredients rehydrates the stale bread. 

One of the quickest, most satisfying, make-you-feel-like-a-kid-again ways to use stale bread is to make French toast. Bread dipped in an egg-milk mixture and fried on a griddle in butter is a delicious breakfast or brunch and an excellent vehicle for maple syrup, cinnamon and sugar, blueberry compote, or whipped cream. 

If you want French toast, but all your bread is fresh, there’s a hack on TikTok that claims to turn fresh bread into a better vehicle for dipping into the egg-milk mixture (also called custard), and you almost certainly have what you need in your kitchen for this simple trick.

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Here’s How to Tell If Your Ground Beef Is Past Its Prime

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If you’ve stared at that package of raw ground beef in your fridge and wondered if you left it too long, you’re not alone. Meat, whether chicken, beef, or pork, is one thing you don’t want to consume when it has gone off: Even when cooked, there is the potential that it could cause food poisoning. You also don’t want to misinterpret the signs and throw out meat that’s perfectly fresh, thus wasting money and upending your dinner plans. So how do you know if ground beef is spoiled or safe to eat? And what does that gray color really mean? Read on to have all your ground beef questions answered once and for all.  

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This Is the Reason Your Baby Carrots Are Always Wet

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Baby carrots are, by all accounts, a curious produce item. They’re so polished, so smooth, so rounded, and just…so uniform. Of course, it’s not uniformity that’s earned the baby carrot a revered spot in crisper drawers across the country (mine included)—it’s convenience. 

Baby carrots require no washing or peeling, simply open the package and they’re ready to go. Use them for dipping, for roasting, for whatever you please! They’re here to offer a type of luxurious ease we all deserve a taste of. Still, there is one feature of these conveniently bite-sized hummus vehicles that has always given me pause: the amount of liquid present in every bag. I mean, why are they so wet? 

As it turns out, the liquid is there for a reason and no cause for concern. 

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