To ask how and where you store your butter?

[augustine77]

I've only just recently switched from buying and using margarine to real butter. I now have a dilemma I need to sort before my head explodes. I don't know much about butter and where it should be stored but I've always thought that keeping it out on the counter in my butter dish for too long means it will go bad so I always always keep it in the fridge. Which is a pain in the backside when it comes to making sandwiches I just can't bring myself to give us all food poisoning!! So my question here is - do you keep your butter in the fridge or leave it out on the counter? If so, how long is it safe to do so?

I have a porcelain butter dish with a lid. I have kept it on the worktop, never put it in the fridge. It has never gone rancid, I use it every day and a 250gm block lasts about a week or so for the 2 of us. Hope that helps.

fridge in its original tub

Butter dish on the worktop. In the cooler months it's still rock solid so sometimes have to cut a bit off and microwave it so it doesnt rip the bread

There's a thread at this very moment about BUTTER DISHES

I keep mine out all the time in a butter dish. It has never gone off, not even in summer. Extra blocks are kept in the fridge until needed.

It will taste rancid long before it becomes dangerous. Does anyone know why people think butter needs to be permanently kept in the fridge? I don't understand it at all, nor today's plethora of butter related threads on Mumsnet.

Assuming you are in the UK and not Australia, Dubai etc, it will be absolutely fine for a week or two at least, so just keep your stock in the fridge and put whatever you'll use in that timeframe in the butter dish.

I used to keep it in the fridge and only really used it for toast (by letting it melt a bit before spreading) or for using in mashed potatoes or cooking eggs. But I asked the same questions on here on the other day about how to store it and was told it just gets left out in a butter dish. So that’s what I’ve been doing and it’s perfect. I only keep out half a block at a time as there’s only me and my son in the house, so I keep the rest in the fridge. I keep the butter dish in the pantry so it’s away from the cat and out of the sun!

I always keep mine out, in a butter dish.

The only time it goes in the fridge is when the temperatures are reaching 30degrees and the kitchen is mega hot. Even then I just cool it down in the fridge for an hour or two and take it out again

I use lurpak spreadable. It's really, properly spreadable straight from the fridge.

What is with all the butter threads lately?

Anyways I cut off a chunk and keep that in the butter dish, the rest in the fridge. When the butter in the dish runs out (after a few days) I put more in.

Ahh yes, it's not like storing Flora, under the blazing mid-day sun with no change to the texture or (foul) taste. Welcome to the butter club.

A butter dish on the work top is fine. Enjoy!

butter dish on the worktop. I've never had butter go off.

Butter is heaven.

Out in a dish all year round. In very hot weather I only keep 1/4 of a block out at a time though.

I have a butter bell which has water at the bottom, I made the change a bit back in an attempt to cut down on plastics. My usual line is "what would granny have done?" and granny would have had butter wrapped in paper rather than in a plastic pot. It holds about a half of a block and I keep the rest in the fridge.

I am very much a butter fan. Delighted so many have come to their senses in the past couple of days. I like to cut a pack in half, out half back in the fridge and stick the other half in any random plastic child's bowl / small Tupperware / ex-Gu pudding glass ramekin next to the bread bin. Usually lasts us a couple of hours or so , then I have another half in the fridge that will have been prevented from going rancid by the cold and also our terrible lack of restraint.

Butter dish out on side here too, we probably use the whole thing up in 4 -6 weeks and it's never gone off yet! My whole family mocked me when I got a butter dish about 2 years ago - now I mock them every time they use it! Mwah ha ha!

In the cupboard in a China butter dish all year round!

butter dish on the side

half at a time is an excellent idea.

Also I always feel slightly smug when I go to make a cake and my butter is ALREADY soft and raring to go!

Miss read that as 'how and where do you store your butler' I really really should wear my glasses!
I'd love a butler...not sure where I'd store him though!

In a china butter dish like a Proper Adult! I'd never felt like an actual, 100% bona fide adult til I went shopping (deliberately) just for that dish.

Also, anyone who uses any kind of butter substitute is an animal.

If it's too hard to spread, cut off what you need and give that a few seconds in the microwave on defrost; lovely and spreadable then.

I don't understand it at all, nor today's plethora of butter related threads on Mumsnet

It might be that thread the other day about Flora cutting all ties with the hateful Mumsnet and a mass boycott was announced. Or maybe everyone has just realised all at once how superior butter is

Butter dish on the worktop next to the toaster.

Butter is lovely.

Fuck Flora