Walk into any grocery store and you’ll be able to find vegan butter. Along the way, I’ll share more details about how to bake with vegan butter, but for now all you need to know is Yes! You! Can! Where to Find Vegan Butter If you’re using just a couple of tablespoons to make a roux, caramelized onions, or a buttery spread for garlic bread, dairy-free butter is a seamless substitute. Because I don’t need my vegan butters to taste like “the real thing,” I can approach these products at face value. On the other hand, the fact that I’ve been eating some sort of butter alternative or vegan butter for over three decades gives me perspective on how these plant-based options are evolving.
If verisimilitude is the goal, then I can’t claim to be certain of what I should be looking for. My limited exposure to regular butter may or may not be an asset in sizing up the vegan alternatives. By the time I graduated college, when butter was making its comeback, I was well on my way to becoming vegan. Like the fruitiness of fruit-flavored candy, it’s an intense and concentrated simulacra of the original. What is that flavor, exactly? Let’s call it “butter” flavor. When I tasted the “real stuff,” at friends’ homes or in restaurants, I was always suspicious of the texture (less homogenous than I was used to) and missed the flavor and saltiness I’d come to expect. The fridge I shared with my mom was always stocked with some butter alternative or another, be it in a spray bottle, a tub, or wrapped in foil.
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