Is cooking with margarine the same as cooking with butter?

I don’t like using margarine, I like cooking with butter instead. So if a recipe calls for margarine, could you use the same amount of butter, or use more or less of it?

From butter to margarine?

I have a cooking question, where is the COOKING category?

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Can anyone explain the difference between spread, butter, and margarine?

Which brand of margarine has the lowest amount of calories?

Vanilla frosting without butter or margarine because I have neither?

Which is better, Margarine or Butter?

How long can you keep butter at room temperature?

Why sometimes cooking use butter instead of oil or both at the same time?

What are the health benefits between margarine and butter?

Is margarine better for baking desserts than butter?

What makes cooking so abhorrent to some women on here?

9 comments a "Is cooking with margarine the same as cooking with butter?"

ya just the same amount ///

Yes, the same amount, but butter burns easier.

They’re interchangeable. Use the same amount of butter.

Use the same amount.

I prefer butter too..

for fine baking (fancy cookies & cakes) where taste is important, use butter (unsalted); margarine can be used for daily use items.

yes or oil will be fine
i hate margarine and never use it

Butter, due to the chemical
ingredients that make up margarine. The measurement is the same.
More interesting facts to follow,,,,,,,,,,,,

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys.

When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research

wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do

with this product to get their money back.

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter.

How do you like it?

They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW…the difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end…gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

And now, for Margarine…

Very high in trans fatty acids.

Triple risk of coronary heart disease.

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here’s the most disturbing fact….

HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC…

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area.

Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value

* Nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weenie microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.

Why? Because it is nearly plastic.

Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends….. (If you want to “butter them up”)!

Which should you use — margarine or butter? Well… neither is ideal, because butter is loaded with saturated fat, and almost all margarines have some saturated fat and trans-fatty acids. However, if you must use one or the other, some margarines may be better than butter.

margarine and butter are the same thing but i think that margarina is better and smoother. butter just slides through.

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