Butter?!

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Not exciting, I'm afraid... but I'm curious. So due to lack of availability and because it's £1000000 per pack I've picked up salted block butter rather than Lurpack in today's shop.

I have fond memories of helping my grandmother to make sandwiches using her lovely soft butter from her china butter dish so had a smile to myself. I found out a butter dish and popped it on the side, already looking forward to slathering it on tiger loaf toast tomorrow morning.

DH walked in the kitchen, took a good look at said butter dish as if it may explode and then made a show of putting it back in the fridge. I watched him, and then told him I'm sure it's fine leaving covered on the side, just like my granny always did.

He is adamant butter can't be left out... it will go bad, it will poison us, the children will never be the same etc etc

So who's right MN? Can I leave my butter out or am I dooming us to stomach upset and horrible sandwiches?

Christ alive, this MN Lurpak fascination has been an education.

Butter in a pack will be grand in a dish, unless it starts to melt itself (too sloppy to put on bread). Put as much as you need for a day or two in the dish and then wash it and add more.

My dear old Dad would have dispensed with the dish and cut it from the paper direct but MN might fright itself at the very thought of such horrors.

I only leave mine out in winter but it's 32 degrees in my kitchen at the moment. It would just turn into a rancid puddle.

Our butter lives out on the side in a butter dish with a lid, nobody has been poisoned yet! It would be of no use to anybody kept in the fridge, its bad enough trying to spread it in the winter months when its cold and hard!

Your DH is right. Due to climate change of global warming, butter left out will now go rancid. Your granny lived in cooler times.

Tell him good luck spreading it when it's been in the fridge 🤣🤣

Butter is in a butter dish kept on the side near the bread bin. It it’s REALLY warm it goes in the fridge but comes out at least an hour before I’m going to use it (otherwise it can’t be used).

a block of butter lasts us about a week usually.

Ours lives out of the fridge.

I'm only putting out half a packet at a time right now due to the heat, but it normally lasts a few days in our south facing kitchen.

I've only ever used butter in a butter dish and I'm 45 and still not dead from it. Once opened, It is supposed to live in a dish on the side/ in a cupboard . It won't spoil unless it's a crazy heat wave. Bacteria won't thrive on it as it's a fat, you could leave lard out and it would be fine too. Same with vegetable oil, olive oil. Butter is its own preservative. They even use a top layer of butter to seal certain preserves from the air etc

I prefer mine kept in the fridge but I'm the only one using it, and not every day.

Half block out, other half in fridge until 1st half used up.

I don’t think it’s fair to call him names. I’d never even seen a butter dish I too I was an adult. In some families it’s just not the norm if they’ve always used spread, which generally lives in the fridge .

Rancid butter 🤮. The taste lingers for at least a week!

Yes leave your butter out.

Spreadable Lurpak or similar is yuk and NOT butter.

We have two butter dishes on the go as we like different kinds...all still alive here 😀

It’s summer, I honestly couldn’t imagine anything worse than the full block left out on the side until it’s finished.

This. Its been sat on the side right through the heatwave and has stayed solid but spreadable, but I have got this butterdish which is slightly insulating. I get through about a 200g packet in a fortnight and it doesn't go off. I think that the big rule for making it keep though is to have a "clean knife for butter" rule. If it gets crumbas and so on in it then it WILL go off. I hate trying to spread butter out of the fridge. oh and mine is plain old block butter, not in a plastic pot as shown in the link www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07D3K1ZK2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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so why do we not store cooking oil in the fridge? oh and my granny had an Aga type stove that heated the hot water all year, her kitchen was hotter than the hinges of hell in summer.

@TeaKlaxon how does anyone make a pack of butter last longer than 10 days? We use a pack in about four days just me and DH #butterfiends

We use . It keeps butter soft when left out of the fridge but also helps prevent it from going rancid.

seriously? gosh you must have a limited imagination.....I mean is that worse than the dog rolling in fox poo, licking some off and then bringing it back up on the carpet?

Me too. But I like my toast very buttery!

Shock! Horror! I never refrigerate eggs either!

Butter was exported internationally from Cork butter market 200 years back. No refrigeration, weeks in transport. Mind you the stuff may have been slightly rancid by today's standards 😉

Fat is a preservative. It will go rancid if it’s left melting in a hot room over a couple of weeks, but otherwise absolutely fine.