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?

Butterdish

Its not an attractive one though so its kept in a cupboard

I keep mine out in a butter dish most of the time but did put it back in the fridge a bit during very hot days this summer as otherwise it melted to liquid.

Waitrose does a nice french style salted butter. Put some on your veg..

Omg the waitrose butter with salt flakes in the black wrapper is the work of the devil damn it!

Mostly in the fridge and just soften with the microwave. Occasionally I use a butter bell, but it keeps the butter so perfect I tend to use more.

About a 1/4 - 1/3 in a porcelain butter dish with lid on the worktop and remainder in the fridge to top up.
Only learnt it could be kept out when a friend came over for lunch in the summer - a revelation.

I make ghee from Tesco Beurre D’Isigny. The clarifying process means I can store it at room temperature. I make a big Pyrex container full, leave it in the fridge then take out to leave in a small Pyrex container with a clippy lid on the counter next to the fridge freezer. If the fridge is full the big container can be left out to make space, ghee keeps for three months at room temperature, a year in the fridge. Never lasts that long though.

Oh and by the way popcorn made with ghee, mmm

I love butter so much we always have proper butter in this family. I have it in a butter dish out on the side and in most of the UK's seasons are absolutely fine with that. in the summer however it might go bit melty so you might want to keep it in the fridge at that point.

I've sometimes bought tins of ghee for cooking. But how long do they safely keep?

Butter dish in the pantry.

On the side in the kitchen in my Lakeland insulated butter dish. It’s fab.

I also have a butter stealing cat, so the butter is in a butter dish but in a cupboard (on top of the tea plates).

Salted butter keeps longer than unsalted (although neither type lasts long enough here to go past its best).

Butter dish on the worktop.

We went over to the dark side a few years ago now, always leave it out and do half at a time when it's really hot but with five of us we go through 2-3 butters a week, bloody love butter

Some in the freezer, one in the fridge, one in a pottery butter dish with lid in kitchen.

If the one in the fridge gets used (for pastry that needs cold butter) then I'll replace from freezer but for day to day spreading on bread nice and soft room temp. Been doing this for years and can only think of one time when the butter went off and that was in the height of summer.

Dish gets washed when it needs it.

Another here who keeps half in fridge and half in butter dish. I have tasted it gone off though after a few days in butter dish. Or maybe I've imagined it. Our house is quiet warm though.

Ugh.
Quite. Not quiet.

Butter dish on the side, though if I'm not going to be using it for a bit (i.e. I've not bought bread this week) I'll pop it in the fridge (in the butter dish).

I've only once had butter go off and it didn't go really off/ make me I'll, just didn't taste as nice.

Butter dish on the side overnight. I am in Australia though so it goes bmin the fridge during the day then I take it out before bed so it is ready for breakfast/sandwich making in the morning.

I also don't put the whole pat in at once and we have a lot of it so it never gets a chance to go rancid.

Oh wow, just checked back in to see if anyone actually bothered to reply and never thought I'd get this many responses! I'm growing through them all now! x

In the Flora container it comes in

Looks like I'm switching to real butter full time and keeping it on the side too! I feel like I've accomplished something, thanks all!

Another question I have for you - salted or unsalted?

I have two butter dishes
My everyday Asda white pottery dish that is used and lives in the cupboard.
And my Anthropologie stunt dish (bought in my local charity shop.) Which is a white porcelain cow cover with a wooden base and knife. This lives next to the toaster and is NEVER used!
I may or may not also have a stunt wooden board which sits alongside them while the cheap plastic board is in daily use.
Oh, and I won’t mention the stunt handwash and handcream in their little porcelain tray

In the Flora container it comes in

Flora doesn't make butter.