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?

We have a few cheap plastic butter dishes. My MIL gave us them so I don't know what they cost, but I'd guess significantly less that 5€. They do the job.

Lakeland do a butter dish that is supposed to keep the butter from being too hard or melting. It does make the butter spreadable in winter/ spring/ autumn because it's out of the fridge but in summer it does melt.
I love Irish creamery butter and don't refrigerate it and we've had no problems.

The Lakeland butter dish is the one linked to by a poster earlier in the thread. I have two because I put the used one in the dishwasher.
It didn't keep the butter from melting in high summer though

Yes on the side in the butter dish. Only ever goes in the fridge in a heatwave if it starts melting.