To keep butter out of the fridge?

[MardyBra]

We’re talking proper non-spreadable, goes rock solid in the fridge butter. Not weird-tasting, filled with chemicals so it spreads fake butter.

Not weird-tasting, filled with chemicals so it spreads fake butter.

Dramatic much? Spreadable butter just has a bit of oil added to it, it's not 'filled with chemicals'. The Lurpak spreadable in my fridge tastes like proper butter, it just has a small proportion of rapeseed oil (which is an oil I use for cooking anyway).

Everything is chemicals. Everything. Natural organic butter is chemicals. Water is chemicals.

Our butter has never gone off. It takes us about three weeks to get through a block and is kept in a cupboard in a stainless steel butter dish. Unused packets are stored in the fridge until needed. My parents did the same without any problems.

@MotherofPearl

Agree completely. A thick slicing of cold, unsalted butter (preferably French) on bread is perfection, so it must live in the fridge. Lesser butter (salted) is only for toast and may be kept out.

I've been put off butter living out on the side after years of living with cats that could push the lid off and lick it, dogs that would just nick and eat the lot, and more recently, my sister keeps hers out and its ALWAYS fucking rancid and she seems oblivious to this. However that might well be that she doesn't eat much as she barely cooks even toast, so it sits there for weeks between her sporadic crumpet binges.

The butter bell is a revelation to me and I am shopping for one now as we have zero cats and the current dogs are too short or too stupid to reach the back of the worktops!!!

The others just don't understand........ 😆

Spare butter in the fridge but unless you use a chisel then of course you have to keep it out. We keep ours in small Tupperware - not even a nice ceramic dish.

I prefer my butter in cold slices - especially in hot croissants or on toast.

Yes ours is out in a butter dish. Would only put in fridge if very hot weather

I just don't understand this. We keep ours in the fridge and it, while it would need to soften to make cake batter, it slices perfectly easily with a table knife. How cold is the average MN user keeping their fridge?

3 degrees. No way proper butter would spread at that temperature.

Yeah, it doesn't spread, but it cuts perfectly easily. I like Echire and Lescure, which I think are both 84% fat. No chisel required.

Absolutely fine, I don't keep eggs in the fridge either.

Get a butter disn and leave it out