Two Kinder's butter blends for different meals

Compare the two bottles

Kinder's Cowboy Butter and Buttery Steakhouse are dry seasoning blends. They are not a tub of compound butter or a recipe for a butter sauce.

Choose the flavor the dish is missing

If you want the maker's mustard, lemon and chili description to be part of dinner, Cowboy Butter is the bottle to consider. If the appeal is the maker's butter, herbs and cracked pepper description, look at Buttery Steakhouse.

A steak already receiving a lemon sauce or a pepper heavy crust changes that choice. Read the main and side recipes together. A new seasoning does not need to appear on every part of the plate.

Use a familiar food before seasoning the whole meal

A small cooked portion of corn or vegetables is a practical way to find the amount you enjoy while following the package directions. Taste with a clean utensil before adjusting the rest of the cooked batch.

For meat, choose a measured replacement for the recipe's seasoning and record the food weight and amount used. Keep the cooking method and sauce familiar. That makes the next dinner easier to repeat without claiming a universal winner.

Butter in the name is a reason to read the label

Check the current bottle's full ingredients and allergen statement. Buttery Steakhouse's maker explicitly describes dairy butter. Do not infer that another blend is dairy free from its shorter name or a retailer's category.

Count the recipe's separate salt, salted butter and sauces when planning the substitution. The flavor summary above is not a complete ingredient list or a fixed dose for every food.

Two straightforward meal choices

For reverse seared strip steak, choose the purchased blend as a seasoning substitution and keep the recipe's doneness method. For grilled corn with lime butter, consider whether the existing butter and lime already supply the flavor you want before adding another blend.

The named blends come from contributed cooking preferences, but this guide does not report a comparative tasting. For a salt and garlic base instead, see Killer Hogs A.P..