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?

A glass butter dish on my worktop in the kitchen.

Butter in the butter dish. Stored in the fridge during summer, but otherwise left out.

Can anyone recommend a stylish dish - something a bit modern?

I’ve found my people 😍

I have a porcelain butter dish on the side and leave it out all year.

We do have a pack of clover in the fridge for when it gets really cold and DH needs to do the kids sandwiches. They don’t truly appreciate the beauty of really butter though and so IDGAF really...I wouldn’t eat that shite.

Butter dish with lid. We get through a pack every 3-4 days. Never goes off.

Occasionally need to microwave a slice if the weather's really cold.

It's also right by the toaster for convenience

Keep mine in a butterdish on the worktop, always have done and it's never gone off.

On the side in a dish. It’s never gone bad, mainly because it won’t be around long. I’ve never known butter go off, must be the salt?

www.johnlewis.com/le-creuset-stoneware-butter-dish/p4205358?sku=233180326&colour=Teal&s_kwcid=2dx92700046359783394&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInLqE4dKc5QIVQ5nVCh0cNAFbEAQYASABEgLO9vD_BwE

These are lovely butter dishes in various colours, I got mine at outlet for half price.

Lala there is a link to the butterfish thread on page 1

I certainly wouldn't pay £30 for it

Thanks Solihooley 👍🏼

This more my price range

@augustine77

In our butter dish on the worktop.

When it's very hot (30 C plus) outside, it goes in the fridge, otherwise it turns to liquid!

In a butter dish. Only in the height of summer might I need to refrigerate it as it may liquefy.

There’s also a ‘best butter’ thread over on Chat 🤣

Cross post rainingallday

Clearly none of you have opportunistic cats. Current DCat probably wouldn't bother but last DCat adored any butter or substitute. If you left a closed tub on the side, it would be knocked to the floor then batted until the lid came off so he could lick it. A butter dish would just make this easy for him. A mere paper wrapping meant Christmas had come early. It presented serious challenges when I wanted butter soft enough to butter bread for cucumber sandwiches!

My cats dont bother about butter so ours is safe sitting out

Butter dish.little porcelin one.it can be there 3-9 days never has it once even looked interestingly rancid.closed spare packs kept in fridge or freezer.

By the way the best butter is wyke farm who also do cheddar cheeses!
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Funnily enough Corneys we've always had lot of cats and are fully aware of the need to keep food safe from them, but they've never gone near the butter dish.

We know to keep any defrosting meat or fish in the microwave, and they will go after knives, plates etc that have butter on them, but they've never gone as far as breaking into the butter dish, which is remarkable, come to think of it.

We did have one greedy fat fucker, sadly now departed and we couldn't even leave pouches of his food accessible, because he would rip them open, but he never got into the butter dish.

We have a China butter dish we have had for more than 20 years wh
high is good going for me with something breakable!

Butter goes in, is used, dish is washed and a new block goes in. Butter fiends in this house so it never goes off. I guess a block lasts about 3-4 days? My kitchen is pretty cool (north facing) so it's only super soft on a very hot day.

Butterdish left out except on about 5 days a year when it gets too hot

I have the glass cow butter dish.

We go through a block of butter every week. The only acceptable version of butter that isn't butter is lurpak.

My block of butter lasts all week without going off. My dp microwaves the butter sometimes and it does my head in! It still doesn't go rancid though.

can never find a lid, though.