Do you keep butter out of the fridge?

[Beamsss]

Where I work we provide a mid morning snack for service users, usually toast/teacakes/crumpets.

There has been a request for "real" butter. This is being resisted by the kitchen staff, not on cost grounds, but because spreading butter makes the job a whole lot harder.

I get that if the butter is kept in the fridge, but at home I keep mine on the side all year round. Only unopened packs in the fridge.

The kitchen is horrified at this suggestion, insisting that if it was unrefridgerated for 4 (?) hours it would have to be thrown away, but it doesn't seem to come to harm at home.

I'm sure they're right about regulations, but what do others do at home?

We keep ours in a butter dish in the fridge because I like my butter stone cold. Like you I don’t spread it, I slice it very thinly ok not that thinly and lay the slices of butter on the toast. Divine.

I’m a strictly butter out kind of person, but I will admit sliced butter on a hot cross bun is rather nice.

Butter out all year round. Never went rancid ever, even in recent heat, just too melty.

Edited to add that spreadable butter, or worse, marge, is evil!

Out on the side. And I live in a hot country !

In my jazzy butter bell. It forms a water seal to keep air out.. or something

These are supposed to regulate the temperature aren’t they? Is it spreadable in the winter too?

Food safety rules do require disposal after 4 hours. You don’t have to follow food safety rules at home.

They could just take out what they need each day to avoid waste though, but that will be be a bit annoying for them to do.

When I used to work in a cafe 25 years ago we used to get through loads of butter in a morning so it wasn’t a problem as it was always used up before the 4 hours. But any left over at the end of the shift would be kept in the fridge.

Mine stays out year round, not in a crock, once opened. However, in the summer I only take out roughly what we will use in a couple of days. It doesn’t go rancid.