Pat of butter



A Pat of butter is a food ingredient made with the cooking skill. Players can make one by churning a bucket of milk, which gives 40.5 cooking experience, or a pot of cream, which gives 22.5 cooking experience, in a dairy churn.

The pat (plate) is not a separate item, and is both created and used along with the butter.

A pat of butter is used by adding it to a baked potato to make a potato with butter. After adding the butter, players can then add additional topping(s). (See this list of potato toppings for information.)

Purchasing Butter
Pats of butter can also be bought from the Culinaromancer's chest after starting the Recipe for Disaster quest. On 10 March 2009, Jagex increased the price of butter in the Culinaromancer's chest from 4 coins to equal that of the current mid-price on the Grand Exchange. On 13 March 2009 this was 485 coins. This has since been reverted, with butter now costing 5 coins again, making it a very efficient money-making process to buy at the chest and sell on the Grand Exchange. There is however, a limited stock of 10 of this item in the chest. Milk sellers near Lumbridge and various places sell up to 200 buckets of milk for churning.

Churning Butter
An efficient way of churning butter is by using pots of cream to churn the cream into butter. This saves inventory spaces, time and trips to the bank by not having buckets, from milk, using up inventory space. On the other hand, using milk with a full inventory will auto-drop the buckets, making it a much cheaper way of making butter while using the same amount of spaces.

Another method of churning butter (much slower, only suitable for players training construction)
 * Use house teleport to player-owned house
 * Build oak larder
 * Search larder, take bucket of milk continuously until full inventory
 * Churn milk into butter in Zanaris (the dairy churn is very close to the bank)

If your house is in Yanille (requires level 50 Construction), simply run to the house portal from the bank, and use the dairy churn between the house and the bank, and return to the bank. Approximate round trip time for 28 pats of butter is 8 minutes, 6 minutes of which is spent churning. With 40.5 cooking experience per pat of butter, you get 1,134 total experience for a full load.



Another option is that does not require buckets to be pre-purchased (Requires Lost City):


 * Go to the Zanaris bank, either have some money with you, or withdraw it from the bank.
 * Go south to the general store and buy 14 buckets. This way you will be able to retain them when you are done churning.
 * Go past the field east to the dairy cow and milk it.
 * Then go north-west to churn it into butter
 * Bank and repeat

Another option that can be used by Rimmington houses (requires Explorer's Ring 3).
 * Go to your house and take milk from the Larder.
 * Fill inventory
 * Cabbage port and run to dairy churn in farm
 * Bank in Draynor
 * Run or teleport to house
 * Repeat

A variation of the above method (requires Explorer's Ring 3, and Ring of Kinship) This method won't completely deplete your run, since everything is so close.


 * Cabbage port to farm, have 13 empty buckets or bring money for milk


 * Fill Buckets with milk/buy milk from milk seller


 * Go through the western-most back door, dairy churn is in the next room over. Churn milk into butter.


 * Port to Daemonheim. Deposit at butter at Banker. Keep the 13 empty buckets.


 * Repeat

Another option can be used by Rimmington houses (requires servant, chef's hat, and a Cooking Level of 32).
 * Go to your house and get milk from a larder.
 * Tell your servant to put max number that he/she can hold in bank
 * Repeat process until you have as many buckets of milk you want
 * Go to Varrock (recommended) and use the Grand Exchange to bank your pats of butter. (if you have completed the Varrock Tasks, you can use the bank in the Guild, and on the last trip, go to the Grand Exchange).
 * Use your buckets of milk on the churn in the second level of the Cooking Guild (this requires a chef's hat and the Cooking level of 32).
 * When you finish making your pats of butter, go to and sell them on the Grand Exchange (this is why Varrock is recommended).

Another option can be used at Seers' Village and Sinclair mansion.


 * Go to the Seer's Village bank.
 * Grab your buckets and head north.
 * There is a Milking Cow and a Churn just north of it.

Another option is just north of Lumbridge were you can buy milk from the milk seller for 12 gp and churn it into butter at Fred The Farmers House.

Trivia

 * The examine text calls the butter "freshly churned" regardless of whether or not it actually is.