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SC enjoys smokey, cheese flavored Himalayan yak milk bars. Who can blame him. That sounds delicious.

Yak butter  and yak milk are amazing flavours, that are staples in Himalayan culture, so no… I can’t blame him either lmaoo, also I love the name Smokey so much

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Do you use yak products in your own cooking?

Not when I’m in Canada, no. But when I was in Nepal and the Himalayas, fuck yes. Like I said Yak butter is a key ingredient in traditional Tibetan and Sherpa dishes. It's used to make *tsampa* (a mixture of roasted barley flour and yak butter), as well as for frying and as general oil. They also make butter tea. Sherpas also use it for skin protection from the cold kinda like sun protection.

I would definitely classify them as having different tastes. Yak butter has a more strong, more pungent flavour.. which is because of the yak’s diet of high altitude grasses and herbs. I’d compare it more to Ghee, but that again is a much more ssubtle taste than yak butter. If you baked a brownie with yak butter vs regular butter, the person who ate it would probably understand the taste difference.. but if they hadn’t tried yak butter before, probably couldn’t tell that it was because of the yak butter. If you know what I mean.

So can’t really compare but if you’re in high altitudes, nothing can compare to the higher caloric intake tbh

how would you characterize the difference in taste, as compared to dairy cow butter? would you recommend it as a substitute for common butter or does it not fit well?