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?

Butter was invented to preserve milk. It can get a bit warm in the hotter months but apart from that, in the butter dish, on the side.

@GrumpyPanda

Yes, that's very true and locally made West Cork butter is still the best of all.

Why anyone would choose that Lurpack crap when it's so pale and lacking in flavour beats me? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Kerrygold is usually nice and soft.

You are.

Mmm. Butter.

Full block left out or in a cupboard in a butter dish. Only new unopened packs in the fridge. My DM used to put ours in the fridge every time she walked into the kitchen, infuriating!!

Same here. DH is a fiend for toast and, to coin a MN phrase, is a cunt for the butter 🤣

I’m the only who eats block butter so I just slice a bit off and pop it in the butter dish and add more from the block in the fridge when needed.

I put my butter in the fridge last week when he had the heatwave, apart from that it's always out. We don't even eat it very fast so it can be out for quite sometime.

Cheese can be kept out of the fridge too.

My butter lives outside the fridge in a proper butter dish. Heavy lid and everything. It’s not killed me yet.

I put out half a block of butter at a time as we don’t eat it super fast usually.
I’m Southern Europe and it’s hot all summer, never had a puddle of liquid yet, and never rancid.

I put the whole block out but we all like buttered toast. It might go rancid after a lonnnnngggg time but never going to happen in this house.

Ours is in a butter dish in the fridge. Which I know is wrong.

But I like my butter in thick cold slabs so it works for me!

It goes bad eventually but if using as a spread it has to be out, really.

At the rate the average household gets through spread, you should be fine leaving it on the side.

We fridge ours because I buy it for our very young kids and it is unsalted. Still much much easier to spread from the butter dish though.

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I live by myself, so don't get through it that quickly unless I buy a really nice loaf with chesse in, - when it's hot I usually put 1/4 or a 1/3 of the block in the butter dish.

Only block butter here and kept out in a proper lidded dish. No fancy doings with water(although I now want a butter bell) or insulated dishes. During the summer its in a wall cupboard and in the winter it sits on the side just above the freeze so the dish captures the tiny bit of heat that comes through the worktop
Never ever had rancid butter an rarely particularly runny. Never wasted a bit of lovely butter.

There's less than a teaspoon of salt in an entire pack of butter, so a tiny tiny amount in what goes on toast etc, so I wouldn't have thought that it was necessary to buy unsalted because you are serving it to young DC.

If you give them a slice of Warburtons toastie bread with 10 g of butter on it, there's 0.15 g of salt in the butter, but 0.46 g of salt in the bread.

Cut a piece and put it on greaseproof paper inside the butterdish.

Block butter in a covered butter dish on the worktop next to the fridge. Never goes rancid or puddle like - always spreads easily. I keep block butter in the fridge if I need it cold for baking but otherwise it’s in a lovely blue denby butter dish I’ve had for 20+ years.

Mines sitting on the kitchen side as we speak! Perfectly fine to leave out

All butter here, i mama the entire country is unsalted. Unless you buy imported expensive salted very in posh places. Still see butter dishes everywhere, and our unsalted tastes fine left out. Wouldn’t spread otherwise

My butter lives out on the side, I can't stand hard butter personally. It needs to be spreadable.

Ours is kept in the butter dish, which is then kept inside the breadbin, so is always in the shade.

We have a butter bell that you fill the cup and it’s submerged in water. I keep it out from Oct.-May. It gets too hot here and I did see some green mold on it once during the summer months. Our pediatrician told us once mold from dairy is pretty dangerous.