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Jean > wrote:

> What is a STICK of butter?

Why not look it up in the rec.food.cooking FAQ?

<http://vsack.bei.t-online.de/rfc_faq.html>

Section 2.7.4 Miscellaneous

a "stick" of butter or margarine weighs 4 oz and is
1/2 cup US
each 1/4 cup or half stick butter or margarine in
US recipes weighs about 50 g
there are 8 tablespoons in 1/4 pound butter

Victor
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On 2004-12-13, Jean > wrote:


> In recipes, add a stick or 1 1/2 stick of butter...
> What is a STICK of butter?

With everyone weighing in with the even more misleading "cube" of butter,
I'm sure you're more confused than ever!

A "stick" of butter is neither a stick nor a cube, even though those are the
two most common terms used in the USofA. Butter typically comes in small
1/4lb blocks which often have an approx dimension of 1-1/2"x1-1/2"x3-1/4"
(~38x38x89mm). The height x width (HxW) dimesion is so the block can be cut
across the long axis (length - HxWxL) in 8 equal pieces, or "pats", of
butter, each being equal to approx 1 tablespoon. As some others have
pointed out, the above dimensions are not universal, some areas and/or
producers having slightly longer or shorter (with corresponding change of
HxW) blocks. But, these 1/4lb "sticks/cubes" are typical for butter sold
for home use and are usually packed in 2-pak or 4-pak boxes. Butter for
commercial use typically comes in single 1lb or larger blocks. Hope this
helps clarify some of the confusion.

nb
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On 2004-12-13, Jean > wrote:


> In recipes, add a stick or 1 1/2 stick of butter...
> What is a STICK of butter?

With everyone weighing in with the even more misleading "cube" of butter,
I'm sure you're more confused than ever!

A "stick" of butter is neither a stick nor a cube, even though those are the
two most common terms used in the USofA. Butter typically comes in small
1/4lb blocks which often have an approx dimension of 1-1/2"x1-1/2"x3-1/4"
(~38x38x89mm). The height x width (HxW) dimesion is so the block can be cut
across the long axis (length - HxWxL) in 8 equal pieces, or "pats", of
butter, each being equal to approx 1 tablespoon. As some others have
pointed out, the above dimensions are not universal, some areas and/or
producers having slightly longer or shorter (with corresponding change of
HxW) blocks. But, these 1/4lb "sticks/cubes" are typical for butter sold
for home use and are usually packed in 2-pak or 4-pak boxes. Butter for
commercial use typically comes in single 1lb or larger blocks. Hope this
helps clarify some of the confusion.

nb
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>I like your story, but I'm confused -- what does being "American" have
>to do with not knowing that a "stick" and a "cube" of butter are the
>same quantity?

I've always assumed that the term "cube" was a European term since I had never
heard of anyone refer to a stick of butter as a cube of butter. Maybe it's a
regional thing. Technically I live in the South but it's really right at the
border between the South and the Midwest.
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>I like your story, but I'm confused -- what does being "American" have
>to do with not knowing that a "stick" and a "cube" of butter are the
>same quantity?

I've always assumed that the term "cube" was a European term since I had never
heard of anyone refer to a stick of butter as a cube of butter. Maybe it's a
regional thing. Technically I live in the South but it's really right at the
border between the South and the Midwest.
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"Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
> I've also seen boxes with two sticks of butter, e.g. a half - pound (at
> Walgreen's)

Right. Land O'Lakes sells unsalted butter by the half pound as well as
a full pound, too, I think.
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In article et>,
"Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
> I've also seen boxes with two sticks of butter, e.g. a half - pound (at
> Walgreen's)

Right. Land O'Lakes sells unsalted butter by the half pound as well as
a full pound, too, I think.
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In article >, "Bob (this one)"
> wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > Unless it is a lower priced option and is but one solid block.
>
> And that one solid block of one pound of butter is called a "print."
> For some reason...
> Pastorio

I can now sleep at night for knowing that.
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"Gabby" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Andrew H. Carter" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:11:05 -0400, "Gabby"
>> > scribbled some thoughts:
>>
>>
>>>
>>(snip)

>> Hmm! Do the packages come with gradations? Or do you make
>> your best guess?
>
> Obvious from the responses from fellow Canadians, I haven't shopped for
> butter in Ontario lately. But for the convenience of those of us whose
> stores don't stock butter dispensed in sticks, the dairies that provide us
> with 1 lb bricks wrap them in foil marked in 1/4, 1/2 & 1 cup increments.
>
> Gabby

Out here in Western Canada (Vancouver), butter is sold by the pound. Each
one pound brick is marked so it can be cut into portions of a cup. Your
average West Coast seafood (crab), and meat (ribeye), dinner requires at
least a quarter cup of butter to properly sauté the oyster mushrooms that
accompany the steak. Fat is not always a bad thing.

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"Gabby" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Andrew H. Carter" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:11:05 -0400, "Gabby"
>> > scribbled some thoughts:
>>
>>
>>>
>>(snip)

>> Hmm! Do the packages come with gradations? Or do you make
>> your best guess?
>
> Obvious from the responses from fellow Canadians, I haven't shopped for
> butter in Ontario lately. But for the convenience of those of us whose
> stores don't stock butter dispensed in sticks, the dairies that provide us
> with 1 lb bricks wrap them in foil marked in 1/4, 1/2 & 1 cup increments.
>
> Gabby

Out here in Western Canada (Vancouver), butter is sold by the pound. Each
one pound brick is marked so it can be cut into portions of a cup. Your
average West Coast seafood (crab), and meat (ribeye), dinner requires at
least a quarter cup of butter to properly sauté the oyster mushrooms that
accompany the steak. Fat is not always a bad thing.

Scott


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"Phred" > wrote in message
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> In article >, "Gabby"
> > wrote:

>>That all depends where you live. I don't think I've ever seen 'sticks' of
>>butter anywhere in Canada (but admittedly I haven't been 'everywhere' in
>>Canada). Our choices are 1 lb & 1/2 lb blocks.
>
> Same here in Oz AFAIK. Though there does tend to be a bit of fudging
> these days since we went metric (500 g and 250 g blocks) with a lot of
> "specialty" butters ("lo salt", "spreadable", etc.) sold in 375 g
> blocks or (more often) plastic boxes. The motive for this diversity
> of weights is to confuse the consumer who is trying to do price
> comparisons.

Since Canada went metric our butter comes in 454 g & 227 g blocks.

Gabby


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"Phred" > wrote in message
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> In article >, "Gabby"
> > wrote:

>>That all depends where you live. I don't think I've ever seen 'sticks' of
>>butter anywhere in Canada (but admittedly I haven't been 'everywhere' in
>>Canada). Our choices are 1 lb & 1/2 lb blocks.
>
> Same here in Oz AFAIK. Though there does tend to be a bit of fudging
> these days since we went metric (500 g and 250 g blocks) with a lot of
> "specialty" butters ("lo salt", "spreadable", etc.) sold in 375 g
> blocks or (more often) plastic boxes. The motive for this diversity
> of weights is to confuse the consumer who is trying to do price
> comparisons.

Since Canada went metric our butter comes in 454 g & 227 g blocks.

Gabby


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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:00:08 -0400, "Gabby"
> scribbled some thoughts:


>Obvious from the responses from fellow Canadians, I haven't shopped for
>butter in Ontario lately. But for the convenience of those of us whose
>stores don't stock butter dispensed in sticks, the dairies that provide us
>with 1 lb bricks wrap them in foil marked in 1/4, 1/2 & 1 cup increments.


All I gotta say is "Give me butter or give me death"

(Appologies to relatives if any, of Patrick Henry).

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:00:08 -0400, "Gabby"
> scribbled some thoughts:


>Obvious from the responses from fellow Canadians, I haven't shopped for
>butter in Ontario lately. But for the convenience of those of us whose
>stores don't stock butter dispensed in sticks, the dairies that provide us
>with 1 lb bricks wrap them in foil marked in 1/4, 1/2 & 1 cup increments.


All I gotta say is "Give me butter or give me death"

(Appologies to relatives if any, of Patrick Henry).

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Gabby wrote:

>
> Since Canada went metric our butter comes in 454 g & 227 g blocks.

Yep. The metric equivalent of 1 lb. and 1/2 lb.

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Gabby wrote:

>
> Since Canada went metric our butter comes in 454 g & 227 g blocks.

Yep. The metric equivalent of 1 lb. and 1/2 lb.

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Richard Kaszeta wrote:
>
> "Gabby" > writes:
> > That all depends where you live. I don't think I've ever seen 'sticks' of
> > butter anywhere in Canada (but admittedly I haven't been 'everywhere' in
> > Canada). Our choices are 1 lb & 1/2 lb blocks.
>
> I think everyplace I've been in the US uses 1/4 lb sticks as a
> standard, with whole lb blocks usually being available as well.
>
> Interestingly, the actual size of the stick (dimensions, not the
> amount of butter) have varied---when I was a kid, our family packed up
> and moved from Delaware to Arizona, and found that the 1/4 lb sticks
> of butter in AZ didn't fit our butter dishes; the butter sticks out
> there were shorter and stockier. This was in the late 70's (and at
> the time we didn't have Thomas's english muffins, and 1 liter glass
> Coke bottles were vastly more common than 12 oz cans or 2 liter
> plastic bottles).

The same thing happened to me when I moved to Calif. in
1972. The sticks there are shorter and fatter than the
sticks back here in PA. Had to buy new butter dishes
to fit.

Kate

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Richard Kaszeta wrote:
>
> "Gabby" > writes:
> > That all depends where you live. I don't think I've ever seen 'sticks' of
> > butter anywhere in Canada (but admittedly I haven't been 'everywhere' in
> > Canada). Our choices are 1 lb & 1/2 lb blocks.
>
> I think everyplace I've been in the US uses 1/4 lb sticks as a
> standard, with whole lb blocks usually being available as well.
>
> Interestingly, the actual size of the stick (dimensions, not the
> amount of butter) have varied---when I was a kid, our family packed up
> and moved from Delaware to Arizona, and found that the 1/4 lb sticks
> of butter in AZ didn't fit our butter dishes; the butter sticks out
> there were shorter and stockier. This was in the late 70's (and at
> the time we didn't have Thomas's english muffins, and 1 liter glass
> Coke bottles were vastly more common than 12 oz cans or 2 liter
> plastic bottles).

The same thing happened to me when I moved to Calif. in
1972. The sticks there are shorter and fatter than the
sticks back here in PA. Had to buy new butter dishes
to fit.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
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Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article >, "Bob (this one)"
> > wrote:
>
>>Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>
>>>Unless it is a lower priced option and is but one solid block.
>>
>>And that one solid block of one pound of butter is called a "print."
>>For some reason...
>>Pastorio
>
> I can now sleep at night for knowing that.

My work here is done...

I can now sleep at night, too,

Busy...?

Pastorio

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Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article >, "Bob (this one)"
> > wrote:
>
>>Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>
>>>Unless it is a lower priced option and is but one solid block.
>>
>>And that one solid block of one pound of butter is called a "print."
>>For some reason...
>>Pastorio
>
> I can now sleep at night for knowing that.

My work here is done...

I can now sleep at night, too,

Busy...?

Pastorio

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In article >, "Bob (this one)"
> wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> >>And that one solid block of one pound of butter is called a "print."
> >>For some reason...
> >>Pastorio
> >
> > I can now sleep at night for knowing that.
>
> My work here is done...
>
> I can now sleep at night, too,

Well, thank God for THAT! You gotta quit prowling around.

> Busy...?

> Pastorio

Me, busy? Not especially. Most shopping is done if not wrapped. I
don't entertain so I don't need a crapload of sweets except for gifts --
and those guys are getting homemade bread and a jar of my new Cherry Jam.
Just came from a pedicure -- I now have toesies colored Bogota
Blackberry. It was either that or Whorehouse Red (Friar, Friar, Pants
on Fire). I need to count my jams (liimited supply available at this
time, although the big wholesaler in town picked them up from the plant
last Friday so they should show up in the stores soon and I can get more
then) and identify to whom they will be bestowed.

Oh, and I've been making egg noodles like a woman possessed. I've also
been eating them in fake soup late at night. The dough is so easy to
whip up in the fp and if it sits, that only makes it better. Making the
noodles is idiot work although it takes a little time. It's a good task
while watching the tube.

Gonna watch the U of M women's hoops team take on the #1 team in the
country tonight. Shaq is back (Janelle McCarville -- she's a trip!) for
the Gophers. Couldn't get Himself interested in going to The Barn to
watch the game, so we'll find a nearby saloon instead and watch it there.

Oh, I exchanged a gift today, too. Something The Kid already has. Good
baba that I am, I'm not making her mother do the exchange after
Christmas.
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In article >, "Bob (this one)"
> wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> >>And that one solid block of one pound of butter is called a "print."
> >>For some reason...
> >>Pastorio
> >
> > I can now sleep at night for knowing that.
>
> My work here is done...
>
> I can now sleep at night, too,

Well, thank God for THAT! You gotta quit prowling around.

> Busy...?

> Pastorio

Me, busy? Not especially. Most shopping is done if not wrapped. I
don't entertain so I don't need a crapload of sweets except for gifts --
and those guys are getting homemade bread and a jar of my new Cherry Jam.
Just came from a pedicure -- I now have toesies colored Bogota
Blackberry. It was either that or Whorehouse Red (Friar, Friar, Pants
on Fire). I need to count my jams (liimited supply available at this
time, although the big wholesaler in town picked them up from the plant
last Friday so they should show up in the stores soon and I can get more
then) and identify to whom they will be bestowed.

Oh, and I've been making egg noodles like a woman possessed. I've also
been eating them in fake soup late at night. The dough is so easy to
whip up in the fp and if it sits, that only makes it better. Making the
noodles is idiot work although it takes a little time. It's a good task
while watching the tube.

Gonna watch the U of M women's hoops team take on the #1 team in the
country tonight. Shaq is back (Janelle McCarville -- she's a trip!) for
the Gophers. Couldn't get Himself interested in going to The Barn to
watch the game, so we'll find a nearby saloon instead and watch it there.

Oh, I exchanged a gift today, too. Something The Kid already has. Good
baba that I am, I'm not making her mother do the exchange after
Christmas.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-29-04; Sam I Am!
birthday telling; Thanksgiving 2004; Fanfare, Maestro, please.
"Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer
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>What is a STICK of butter?

You're kidding, right?
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DJS0302 wrote:
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> >I like your story, but I'm confused -- what does being "American" have
> >to do with not knowing that a "stick" and a "cube" of butter are the
> >same quantity?
>
> I've always assumed that the term "cube" was a European term since I had never
> heard of anyone refer to a stick of butter as a cube of butter. Maybe it's a
> regional thing. Technically I live in the South but it's really right at the
> border between the South and the Midwest.

It seems to be a western US thing.Found it slightly confusing as the
truncated sticks of butter aren't actually cubes in the usual sense.
Perhaps at one time they were cubic.
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DJS0302 wrote:
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> >I like your story, but I'm confused -- what does being "American" have
> >to do with not knowing that a "stick" and a "cube" of butter are the
> >same quantity?
>
> I've always assumed that the term "cube" was a European term since I had never
> heard of anyone refer to a stick of butter as a cube of butter. Maybe it's a
> regional thing. Technically I live in the South but it's really right at the
> border between the South and the Midwest.

It seems to be a western US thing.Found it slightly confusing as the
truncated sticks of butter aren't actually cubes in the usual sense.
Perhaps at one time they were cubic.
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