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Bill Gates-backed startup makes ‘butter’ out of water and carbon dioxide (www.zmescience.com)

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A California-based startup called Savor has figured out a unique way to make a butter alternative that doesn’t involve livestock, plants, or even displacing land. Their butter is produced from synthetic fat made using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and the best part is —- it tastes just like regular butter.

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[–] obinice 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Have you tried good proper butter? Not that weird white stuff Americans make. Actual flavourful yellow Irish butter.

Margarine tastes okay and I use it all the time, but it's a pale imitation of the real thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, being from the northern part of Spain I have tasted plenty French butters, I still prefer margarine. Taste is subjective so it's better not to have prejudices about food since those prejudices might be from someone with different taste buds.

[–] hperrin 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I have. If you put that and a good vegan butter substitute on toast back to back, I might be able to tell the difference, but if you put them in a dish, I definitely wouldn’t. Yeah, margarine isn’t very good. There are much better substitutes than margarine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Idk, every vegan butter I've ever had (4 different ones now) taste like the crappy diner butter that comes in a little paper boat with the thin paper film over the top. It's fine I guess, but "butter" is overstating what is really just a barely spreadable, low taste spread.

[–] Asidonhopo 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

French butter like Prèsident is so good, better than Irish butter in my opinion.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And that's considered one of the fairly inferior choices.

[–] Asidonhopo 1 points 4 months ago

Oh no doubt, I saw it in Walmart though so it was easy to try