Butter left out in a butter dish

[RedPringleGirl]

I have always kept my butter out in a butter dish with a lid. For as long as I can remember this was the done thing in order to have spreadable real butter. I literally thought this was what butter dishes were invented for.

Just read that you're not actually supposed to keep butter out for longer than 2 days.

How did I not know this!!! Mine stays out for weeks sometimes until the butter is all used up.

Well noone's dropped dead yet which I'll take as as a good sign. But please tell me I'm not the only one who's done this!

That's in the US - butter is not proper butter in the US - it's more like margarine. It has lots of additives in it.

no one is asking the most important question. did you make the butter at home @RedPringleGirl using your home made butter churn using milk you personally milked from your hand reared cows which are fed only on wild farmed grain and only listen to classical music?

otherwise that butter only deserves to be stored in one place.... the bin

sorry not sorry #allhailthemassivesalad

Butter-bell - ours lives out in that and its always spreadable, never too soft and doesn't go rancid at all. Our kitchen is not particularly warm unless there is a heatwave but even then, the butter was fine.

@therealcookiemonster ,

>> hangs head in shame<<<< , I have not milked my own cows but I have frequently made my own butter please can I keep it ?

American butter definitely has a lower fat and higher water content than Eurooean butter.

But it can be kept out on a counter in a butter dish just as long as any European butter.

I buy both, and have a kitchen that is not reached by the cool air from the AC. All the butters last well in the dish apart from spells of extreme heat, but I think that would be true of butter everywhere.

Leaving it out in its original packaging is something I haven't tried.

sorry but no

off you go to mumsnet jail. I will put you next to the peeps that have husbands who don't have "interesting hobbies"

Our butter is always out, apart from if it’s very hot weather. So much better for you than those ultra processed spreads

@mathanxiety
Do you miss Irish butter ?

Agree!

I shudder to think of the tonnes of food wasted as a result of the scare mongering.

Nope.

American butter is made from milk fat, salt (if salted), water, and milk solids.

You would never mistake it for margarine.

There are 5 of us - 3 hungry teens, DH and me so a pack of butter only lasts 2-3 days sometime less if using it for cooking.

I don't think you will get food poisoning but personally I can tell when butter has been left out. It has a rancid taste.

Salted butter will last way better than unsalted. Salt is a preservative. If butter is off you will know by the taste. I am more worried by all the chemicals and additives in all the pre-packed foods on offer. Most people have no idea what they are eating or what all those E numbers, additives and preservatives are or how they affect the body long term. Butter should be the least of your worries!

It's tasteless compared to UK/European butter. The higher water content ruins it!

I buy it in Costco :-)

It's worth the extra cost, I have to say.

Is it Kerrygold ?
Apparently Kerrygold is very popular in the States.

We use the butter consistency as a thermometer...........

It only goes in the fridge if it's in danger of becoming an oily puddle, otherwise in the butter dish on the bench.

@Iwrotethelyricstoaxlf An electric butter dish! I want one of those - just off to google it. (I keep my butter on the counter in a butter dish with a lid, until it's used up, like nearly everyone else).

That's definitely a CF thread that we need 😆

It’s very easy to tell when butter has gone off - the colour and the smell change.

Salted butter is perfectly fine outside the fridge in the U.K. except for the rare heatwave. Unsalted or lightly salted last a little less long, but still are fine for a good number of days.

American butter isn’t as nice as butter over here, and British butter (except some independent farmhouse butters) isn’t as good as some French and Irish butter. You want the lowest water content possible for really good butter.

I love my butter dish. It’s just so cheery!

I've been wondering about this as part of my mission to cut down on UPF. I will buy a butter dish....does it have to be salted or is unsalted OK out of the fridge?

My question has just been answered! Thanks 😂

I leave mine out all the time too. No one's died yet.

We eat it too fast for it to be a worry.

I use a butter dish now. Much nicer than that fake spreadable stuff. A block usually lasts two weeks. It seems fine, nobody is ill.