To keep spreadable butter in the cupboard

Its not butter though if its not 100% butter.

I don't think 'margarine' exists any more but there's butter and all the other 'spread' products which are not butter, whatever some people call it.

If you’re not keeping it in the fridge anyway then why on earth buy spreadable butter?!?

Butter IS spreadable if not kept in fridge

Maybe your fridge is too cold if the spreadable is too hard?

If I leave Lurpak spreadable out and come back to it later, it has often gone runny and becomes more oil than butter.

Is it not too runny if it stays in your cupboard? I would absolutely keep spreadable in the fridge, but perhaps you are speedy spreadabale eaters and it doesn't have a chance to liquify.

I find Lurpak spreadable does spread straight from the fridge so, as your MIL is a baker, this is likely her spread of choice. (I'm sorry she irritates you though).

(I feel like this has the makings of a 1percent club answer....how many times does the word 'spreadable' appear in this question....)

I think in their heads spreadable butter is the same as margarine when it's really not.

Genuinely, what do you think will have happened in a few hours?

If you keep it out of the fridge surely you’d buy normal butter? You don’t need spreadable?

@FerrisWheelsandLilacs , There are three types of butteresque spreads:
Butter
Spreadable butter (butter + oil)
Margarine

Something like Clover isn't any of those. It's a fat spread. Margarine is 80% fat. Clover is 64%. Not sure what butteresque is meant to be.

So what if MIL loses money, it's just desserts for being an interfering busybody.

Could the reason you can’t spread the spreadable butter is how you put it in your knife

Do you dig the knife in like a spoon or do you gently scrape the knife over the butter several times building up the amount of butter on the knife.

The latter is how I use spreadable butter and that works fine straight from the fridge

I put virtually everything in the fridge

I know posters are arguing that butter is better but my concern is the amount of butter people are getting through in such a short amount of time.

I had friends who would go through a pack of butter every couple of days. Exh would get through 2 packs per week on his own.

All 3 of them are suffering the consequences. Clogged and narrowed arteries.
All 3 can’t walk unaided

Me who never touched the stuff can do 30-40,000 steps per day regularly in a physically demanding job. Most people think I am 15 years younger than I am. I definitely move faster than a lot of people 1/3 my age

Would you really? I keep my butter (admittedly block butter not spreadable) in a cupboard. It’s fine at ambient temperature.

Threads like this make me laugh because some trivial things are very black and white!

It is a bit harder to spread in cold weather. I just churn up a bit in the tub before I use it and spread using the back of a spoon.

But MIL should leave it where you want it, tell her it’s your house, your rules.

Anchor Spreadable is NOT butter. The clue is in the name. They call it Anchor Spreadable Blend of Butter and Rapeseed Oil because it's only 50% butter, with the next biggest ingredient Rapeseed oil.

Calling this butter is a sacrilege.

I think technically she's right but it's your house so it is not her place to move it!

You are looking at the Sainsbury's one. There is one in NZ with the same name that looks to be butter only.

www.mainland.co.nz/products/butter/mainland-buttersoft.html

I would then bin the butter if there was a possibility it had been out of the fridge for more than a few hours.
That's just wasteful.

And Countrylife has butter (50%), rapeseed oil (25%), water and salt. No nasty additives. I'm looking at a tub right now.

I think posters have an agenda if they want to believe that spreads containing butter have a load of other stuff in.

I would then bin the butter if there was a possibility it had been out of the fridge for more than a few hours.

So it would cost me money.

What mil is doing doesn’t cost anything

Because it is a dairy product.

Do you keep milk (not long life types) yogurt or cheese in the cupboard?

Say absolutely nothing but just silently take her butter out the fridge and put it in the cupboard whenever you’re around her house. You can have a silent war which could last years like this.

I guess you are fine if you eat it fast enough for it not to go off. I suspect if you ate it really slowly then it may go off before its finished. I hate the taste of spreadable butters when they are on the turn, I don't like it if they are out for an afternoon then put back in the fridge as it makes them taste iffy to me.

You may also find that the best before dates are based on fridge life rather than countertop life expectancy. So you would have to trust your senses, which most people are quite capable of.

I always thought proper butter goes on the worktop/cupboard in a butter dish and spreadable goes in the fridge. But if your spreadable butter has been fine in the cupboard then surely it's not an issue.

It's the same with eggs - ours are on the worktop but my mum keeps them in the fridge. They're fine either way.

I have said this before, and will say it again…you need a refrigerated butter dish….

https://alfille.co.uk/

its flipping brilliant. You can then have real butter.

Why so nasty in telling OP what to do? She can keep her butter whey she wants to FGS!

Buttersoft don’t do a butter with no added ingredients, do they?

Aren’t they a spreadable butter brand (so butter + oil)?

There are three types of butteresque spreads:

Butter
Spreadable butter (butter + oil)
Margarine

We keep both butter and lurpak spreadable butter in the fridge and it’s fine - but I only butter toast and not bread.

I think it’s supposed to be kept in the fridge because it goes off quicker than butter, particularly if it has crumbs, and it’s designed to be optimally spreadable at fridge temperature. The oils and the butter will melt at different temperatures and so it may become sub optimal or less spreadable over time when kept out of the fridge. If you prefer it that way though OP, that’s fine!

I am with you , I split my spread in half one half on the worktop the other half in the fridge.
I only do this because I live alone and don't use a lot of it so it keeps fresher ( indefinitely) in the fridge .

Even if I disagreed with you , your mil has no right to swap things about in your home.