LardAss Butter

LardAss Butter Handcrafted cultured butter made using cream from grass-fed cows of Victoria. Lard Ass was born out of a passion for dairy.

A dairy farmer’s daughter, our butter comes from a recipe my parents used when growing up on a farm just outside Timboon, Victoria. To me this recipe symbolises natural, sustainable, wholesome food. Today Lard Ass continues this tradition making butter by hand using rich cream sourced only from south west Victoria, the home of happy, grass-fed cows.

Three markets 😎One long weekend 👏Unlimited butter 💛📍 Woodend | Saturday 9am📍 St Kilda VegOut | Saturday 8am📍 Castlemaine...
05/06/2026

Three markets 😎
One long weekend 👏
Unlimited butter 💛

📍 Woodend | Saturday 9am
📍 St Kilda VegOut | Saturday 8am
📍 Castlemaine | Sunday 9am

The perfect way to finish a meal, start a meal, or honestly just stand at the bench.

Grab a roll, grab a wheel, grab several. You've got an extra day to work it off.

Don't forget our Tasting Room in Ocean Grove is open this Monday from 10am to 1pm.

See you there!!

Butter making. Whenever I tell people I'm a butter maker I love the hand actions they make to be sure we are clear on wh...
18/05/2026

Butter making. Whenever I tell people I'm a butter maker I love the hand actions they make to be sure we are clear on what I mean by butter maker. Some do the arm action like turning a handle around (old wooden churns were designed like this) or they grasp an invisible handle in the air like holding a broom with 2 hands and move it up and down .... like how OLD do they think I am?? 🫣

Hand actions aside have you ever made your OWN butter?!

I see so many stories on my social feeds about making your own butter and it’s great to see. It's so simple... messy... but simple. If you do want to make your own butter, there are 3 key things to know before you start:

✨ Tip #1 — Good cream = good butter. Full stop.
Source the freshest fattest cream you can find. Grass-fed if you can get it. The richer the cream, the more golden and delicious your butter will be. Make sure there is nothing in it other than cream and has a fat content around 40%. Pasteurised cream will ensure your butter keeps longer.
✨ Tip #2 — When it looks like it's gone wrong, it hasn't.
That moment when it goes all grainy and liquidy and weird? That's THE moment!! That's butterfat doing its thing. Keep going, don't panic, you're basically a butter wizard right now. 🧙
✨ Tip #3 — Wash your butter!!
Rinse it under cold water and work it until the water runs clear. It sounds fussy but it takes 2 minutes and means your butter lasts WAY longer. Worth it every time. Keep the buttermilk. Use it as a fertiliser for your house plants or vegie garden or bake a cake with it.

🧈 Can you leave butter out on the bench?
Yes — BUT it's better if it's salted because salt is a preservative and make sure it's hidden under a lid. And here's something worth knowing: commercial butter actually handles bench life better than homemade, simply because the technology used to remove moisture today is far superior to what existed 50 years ago. Water in butter is the enemy of shelf life. Less is absolutely more. So if you're making your own at home, keep that in mind and store it smart. ❤️

Now go make some butter and feel extremely proud of yourself. 🧈✨

We'll chat about making cultured butter soon x

🧈 It's market weekend and we're coming to you!Find us across South Australia and Victoria this weekend with all your fav...
15/05/2026

🧈 It's market weekend and we're coming to you!

Find us across South Australia and Victoria this weekend with all your favourite small batch, slow cultured goodness — plus some exciting new flavours to try!

🗓️ Saturday
📍 Gasworks Farmer's Market — 8am
📍 Mt Pleasant Farmer's Market — 8.30am

🗓️ Sunday
📍 South Geelong — 8.30am
📍 Kingsbury Drive Community Market — 9am ✨ NEW!
📍 Sunday Fun Day, Tonsley Adelaide — 10am

Whether you're a long-time fan or discovering us for the first time, come say hi and taste the difference that happy cows and slow culturing makes! 🐄

Don't just grab the butter — make sure you try our slow cultured crème fraîche and sour cream too.

Once you go cultured, there's no going back! 😍

We'd love to see you there. Tag a friend who needs a Saturday (or Sunday!) morning market run! 👇

To all the mums who effortlessly juggle daily responsibilities whilst putting up with their partner's shenanigans all i...
10/05/2026

To all the mums who effortlessly juggle daily responsibilities whilst putting up with their partner's shenanigans all in style 🌼

Looking at this photo of my mum as capable as ever a mum can be — holding my brother in one arm, cutting cake in the other, meanwhile my dad is celebrating his way 😆

To all the mums who gave everything and somehow made it look effortless — today is ours.

Happy Mother's Day! 🌸

This Mother's Day...give a gift she'll actually use and love. 🧈 Find us at markets this weekend — we'll have butter bell...
08/05/2026

This Mother's Day...

give a gift she'll actually use and love. 🧈

Find us at markets this weekend — we'll have butter bells and beautiful last-minute gift ideas ready for you.

📍 Coburg (Sat 8am) · Footscray (Sat 9am)
📍 Alphington (Sun 9am) · Flemington (Sun 8.30am)

Happy Mother's Day to all the incredible mums out there 💐

Cows are mums too 🐄

06/05/2026

Not all butter is created equal. 🧈

We put commercial butter up against artisanal butter ... (ok, our butter but still...) — and the differences are bigger than you'd think. From fat content and flavor to how they're made and where they come from, what's on the label doesn't always tell the whole story.

We're talking color, texture, taste, and everything in between.

Know what you're buying.

foodie

Here it is! The LardAss line up of our flavoured butters with a helpful guide on how to use them 🙌Flavoured butter - or...
03/05/2026

Here it is! The LardAss line up of our flavoured butters with a helpful guide on how to use them 🙌

Flavoured butter - or more technically, compound butter - is your secret weapon for instant flavour magic ✨️

Think of it as a finishing sauce in solid form: once your meal is hot off the pan, add a slice of your favourite butter and let it melt into rich perfection That's when the real magic happens - aromas bloom, the flavours deepen, and your dish gets that luscious, glossy finish only real butter can bring.

Feeling fancy? Try our Roasted Garlic on steak, Smoked on mash, Seaweed Miso on salmon, or our newbie Chotto Motto Crispy Chilli Oil & Honey to zhuzh up your toast (trust us on that one).

Simple meal ▶️ Add flavoured butter ▶️ Instant chef energy ♨️

Yours in butter x

Markets this weekend 🫒🌶🫑🧄Butter worth getting out of bed for. Proper butter made with grass-fed cream, naturally ferment...
30/04/2026

Markets this weekend 🫒🌶🫑🧄

Butter worth getting out of bed for. Proper butter made with grass-fed cream, naturally fermented, and freshly churned. 💛

Saturday
Woodend — 9am
VegOut, St Kilda — 8am
Adelaide Hills 8.30am

Sunday
Castlemaine — 9am

We’re bringing the full spread — cultured butter, the staples, and a few favourites that don’t hang around long.💛

If you’ve been thinking about it, this is your sign.💛

If you already know, get in early.💛

Find us, taste it, take some home.💛

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Ocean Grove, VIC

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4pm
Tuesday 8am - 4pm
Wednesday 8am - 4pm
Thursday 8am - 4pm
Friday 8am - 4pm

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+61342390333

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