I've found that most of the raw butter I've bought has been poorly made.
We prefer ghee over butter, but ghee is not raw.
Thanks for the info re: buttermilk livingthelife. This fits in well with my past butter experiences.
Ghee, I guess it could be said, is the dairy equivalent of tallow (rendered suet) in that it's heated and filtered to remove the proteins. According to William on another thread, all of the proven toxins from cooking (AGEs, Het.amines et al) are protein based and, therefore, would no longer exist in the resultant ghee. I'm not stating that I agree this to be true but it's an interesting point. (Please correct me if I'm misquoting you William?!)
I'm interested in the possibility of making 'raw' ghee - also known as butter oil - even though I don't use dairy myself anymore. I see no reason why the butter could not be melted at low temperature and then separated from the solids with a cheap centrifugal separator leaving a raw butter oil substrate. Has anyone experiment with this?
My ideal would be to have my own grass-fed pet goats from which I could make large quantities of raw goat butter oil!
Van, you have goats. Have you ever tried this before you abandoned butter?