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!

Salted butter is a preserved food. Two days my arse. We eat proper butter, from a butter dish which sits in the cupboard. Usually get through a block a week unless we’re baking, and then it gets used faster.

Butters been around longer than fridges. We didn’t have a fridge till I was about 10. I always keep mine out and try and find a cool spot in summer

I use margarine and keep it in the fridge 🤷‍♀️

I've switched to ghee. Easy to make, tastes more buttery than butter, is spreadable and keeps for months in a jar at room temp.

It won't be ghee until the water and solids have been evaporated off / filtered out.

I am an actual adult and I am perfectly capable of telling if butter has gone off. If it has I won’t eat it. As yet, even over the hottest summers this has yet to happen.

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It will be fine. We leave ours out in a glass dish. You will know instantly by the taste if it’s ‘off’. But in the last 50 years I’ve never had any problem.

We use a butter dish and leave it on the counter, not in the fridge.
If it is sunny I make sure it is in a shaded spot.

If it is very warm it will go in the fridge.

Did the same as a child so I've managed to survive for 50 years, no,issues so far from it.

We go through a block every 2 days. But I leave it out all the time thought that's what a butter dish was for.

Don't worry we didn't have a fridge when I was at home. Butter was kept in the pantry then.

Can't believe my boring thread is still going.

Who knew there would be so much interest in butter😂

its a mix at times as to the popularity of the threads

Ours isn't allowed out I taste butter going rancid so early and I cant stand the taste. I call warm butter vomit butter. I think it tastes horrid.

Never had a problem. Always use a butter dish and leave it on the work top.

I only put mine in the fridge if the weather is really hot so basically hardly ever in the UK. It's always been fine.

I leave real butter and vegan butter out for weeks sometimes and have never had a problem! shrugs

Lovely block of butter is kept in the cupboard and spreadable is in the fridge.

I’m so surprised so many do this. I’ve never considered leaving it out the fridge and I don’t know anyone else who does. I mean you buy it from the fridge section…

Yes. And I keep butter that is in reserve in the fridge but once it’s in the dish it’s out.

My mum has done this for years without any issues. I often think should I do it myself to have proper butter rather than the spreadable type that stays in the fridge which is mixed with different oil.