Do you keep butter out of the fridge?

[bobstersmum]

I absolutely love real butter and hate all the crap that's put into spreads, but I am always wary of leaving out of the fridge. Does anyone have any knowledge, is it OK to be stored on the side in a relatively cold kitchen?

Don't buy IKEA butter dishes, I think Swedish butter must come in a different shape, they are too shallow for our butter and I have to cut the blocks up, v irritating, I may have to " accidentally" break it!

YesS, always leave it out.

I have a couple of butter dishes with l,ids obviously
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Dishwasher once they are empty and get the new block out and carry on. Much nicer than margarine spreads. Full of chemicals.

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I don't think one of my butter dishes was from Ikea but I also had to replace it because it was too long and thin to fit a standard block of butter. I originally bought it because it looked nice. No thought to practicality.
I've also used a friends butter dish that you sit the butter in like a butter shaped bowl with a flat lid. That was also impractical to get the knife in properly.

Don't buy IKEA butter dishes, I think Swedish butter must come in a different shape

Like their mattresses ?

My kitchen is the temperature of the sun and we keep butter out. Always have. Not died yet!

I recently started keeping butter and eggs out of the fridge when I got a lovely old duck butter dish and duck egg holder in a charity shop.
They look lovely, and butter/eggs are always fine.

Yes - just as my granny used to and she lived to a ripe old age

Ours is a Le Creuset butter dish. Still a bugger to spread, come winter or summer in our house!

Yes, in my beeyootiful Le Creuset butter dish.

I thought about a Le Cruset butter dish but having checked Amazon they are over £100, a bit rich for me.

The next item down is a Le Cruset butter crock - only one available for sale which is used - condition: like new. Price: £668 lol. I would expect it to be made of solid gold for that price. www.amazon.co.uk/Creuset-Butter-Crock-Stoneware-Cerise/dp/B000RGYPZS/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=butter+dish+le+creuset&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1547057069&sr=8-3

Mine was a gift but I don't think they ate that much

*are.
Typo.

I have some pretty ramekins, I put about a quarter to a third of a block in a ramekin which lasts two or three days. When it runs low I do up the next ramekin to give it time to soften, first ramekin goes in the dishwasher when finished.

Yes In a butter dish.

Yes, in a tupperware type box. I put half a block at a time in it

Yes always even in the summer.

I do what @TheVonTrappFamilySwingers does

I always put new packs of butter in the freezer and cut half a block at a time to go in the covered butter dish . Which then stays out.

Yes definitely. It's salted for a reason

Yes in a butter dish.

Yes in a butter dish. I don`t keep eggs in the fridge either

Lakeland Insulated Butter dish in our house too. Works really well all year round.

www.amazon.co.uk/Luminarc-Design-Butter-Storage-Dish/dp/B072SLL7G3/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=glass+cow+butter+dish&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1547059403&sr=8-3

Glass cow butter dish. V cheap!

Our Lakeland indulating butter dish was rubbish, melting in summer, rock hard in winter. We ended up going back to a ceramic one.

We keep the butter that's in use on the side in a butter dish. Then there's an unopened butter in the fridge ready for when the in use one's almost finished, and 3 or 4 packets of butter in the freezer, moved singly to the fridge as the fridge one moves to the side...

I guess we use a lot of butter...

Don't buy any "spread" ever, and make 25 packed lunches per week plus random other butter needs. One pack lasts about 2, sometimes 3 days.

OH does. I don't because I hate the texture and flavour of soft butter and can taste the difference between butter that's always been kept cold and one that's gone gooey and sat out in the kitchen for days. And my thoughts on him also buying tubs of vaguely yellow fat claiming to be butter when it's really margarine and leaving that out until the water separates AND expecting me to eat it are unprintable

If we had a larder like my granddad had - the type that had a marble shelf and was kept cold by being against the side of the house/single glazed window and the house were not centrally heated, it would be fine - but few of us are fortunate enough to have that kind of thing now.

It's not going to harm anybody if you choose to keep it out of the fridge when it's in use, especially if you put it back in the fridge overnight, though.