To not like it so hard

[GlitterUnicornsAndAllThatJazz]

I'm talking butter.

It pisses me off how hard it is straight out the fridge, but someone I know says that butter dishes are "poncey" and leaving the butter dish out of the fridge to be permanently soft is "minging".

So whats the solution?

Butter dish!

Butter dish
Yep that’s minging sorry.

I hate the way the butter is so soft it feels like oil.
And it always feel like it has got rancid too.

Your friend IBVU! Butter dish here too. Height of summer goes in fridge and smaller bit left in dish but only when baking hot outside. Butter is the food of the gods!

Keep in butter dish if hard put in the microwave for 1 min to soften

Lurpak spreadable never spreads for me😰

seriously - butter dish.

I don't actually know anyone who keeps butter in the fridge...it's not necessary (and certainly isn't spreadable!!). Like others have already said, in summer, when it's warm, just leave enough in the dish for daily consumption. In winter time though, it's fine in a dish on the counter (in fact, it's still too hard to spread!!)

Lord, does everyone have a butter dish!

Isn’t it just something else to clean..

I’ll have a look for one now but am not sold on the idea 😳

I'm a butter dish fan too! I have two so one can be washed up while the next pat of butter is already warming up. As long as it's salted butter it keeps fine, not 'minging' at all.

@pinkginanyone I have this one...I love it 😊 www.hartsofstur.com/acatalog/T-G-Pride-Of-Place-Butter-Dish-Old-Green-18000.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw8imivDf2AIVxJkbCh1TnAGHEAQYAiABEgKmcfD_BwE

Butter in the fridge, portions taken out and placed in butter dish as needed. In the summer, turn on the central air conditioning. This will keep you cool and the butter firm, not hard.

Another one who cuts the butter block into quarters. I freeze the spare bits.

Butter dish. Didn’t realise using it straight from the fridge was something people did! We keep a large block in the fridge and cut smaller bits off to go in the butter dish.
Spreadable butter is not butter.

Oh, and I buy butter in four pound packages at BJ's warehouse club (like Costco) and I keep those in the upright freezer we have in the garage, to be transferred a pound at a time as needed to the fridge.

Butter dish
Our house is so cold , the butters rock hard anyway
Any excuse for layering it on my toast 😀
Spreadable is the utter appalling work of the devil and should never be allowed

We get Softer butter from Morrisons (red pack, that's the name), or real soft butter in a tub from M&S or Loseley brand from Waitrose.

Never keep it in the fridge, that's madness. It doesn't go off and it doesn't spread, so useless if kept in the fridge.

You've all completely sold me on a butter dish. Tearing holes in bread with rock hard butter every morning is the bane on my life (well, not quite but pretty irritating).
Does it not go sour right away, like milk left out? If not, why?

Salt is a preservative which is why it is in butter as there were never fridges in the old days. Out kitchen is always warm as we have an Aga like oven but we have a butter dish - however its one I found at a charity shop - it is meant for bertolli olive spread stuff and it is insulated in that it protects the contents from being overheated - works a treat and keeps butter just below room temp.

Lurpak spreadable out of the tub (in the fridge)

Now I feel wrong and like I need a butter dish

To be fair, a regular sized tub of butter lasts us months, I think it would get pretty rank if left out

Butter dish and I have a beaut one here from Asda
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no, not in butter, salt is not a preservative, it is added for taste. To be a preservative there has to be a hell of a lot more salt than that, Salt is used to draw moisture.

Butterdish - only put 1/3 of block out at a time.

Huge NO any spreadable products - they're full of nasties.

Well, honestly. Butter dishes exist for a reason! Your friend is an idiot.

I also have real whole milk.....I don’t like it skinny or hard

Really, yoga !? I thought that all they added to the lurpak spreadable was rapeseed oil.