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?

This is mine in the cow dish although I use it upside down I think. The flatter bit is the dish and the big dome bit is the cover

Lurpak spreadable in the fridge. If any of you live in Surrey or Sussex look for Losely spreadable from the Losely estate. It's lovely

Porcelain butter dish on the side and never goes off. We go through one every few days.

And always salted for us, so much nicer on toast or veggies than unsalted. My DM uses unsalted so I always have to add salt on top when we go to stay with her as it's just not the same.