I put butter in the fridge, DH wants it on the counter. Who is right?

[MixedFamily]

We don’t have a huge kitchen so it will always be at least 1 mt away from hob or window. Would a butter dish “protect” it enough from it? I have always assumed butter goes in the fridge but he says it doesn’t. What do others do?

Based on its price Lurpak should be in the safe

We use a French butter pot. I like to think I am fancy 😁

I'm scottish and my butter is kept on the worktop in a butter dish. It's still solid when I try to spread it on my toast at this time of year!

Same here, I have two tuppawear dishes, one for fridge butter, one for counter butter.

My butter has never gone yellow. Did you keep it in a butter dish?

Never happened here. I live alone and don’t use a huge amount

Depends if it’s salted or not… salted butter should be kept at a normal room temperature (so not in the kitchen) in a covered butter dish. As PP have said - put half the block there and the other half in the fridge if you prefer it cold…
Unsalted butter, on the other hand, will spoil quicker at room temperature, so if the butter is going to be used up quickly, it’s ok to leave it out for a day.

I have a butter dish in the cupboard with other condiments - oil, salt, pepper, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce etc…We hate food items on the worktop so this works best for us.

On the counter unless it’s unspeakably hot, when my mum used to come over to watch my son while I went to work she’d always clean my kitchen for me while he napped (a godsend of a woman!) but every time without fail I’d come home and find the butter hidden in the fridge, like I was just a total idiot that would consistently forget to put it away every day. I don’t see how even spreadable butter is usable when it’s been in the fridge without a couple of hours to warm up a tad!

Same. I don't like it sitting out long before it is eaten.

No one is right. It depends on personal preference. I like my butter cold. Some people like it soft and easier to spread.

You get his and hers butters. Then it’s not an issue.

Depends on weather. In fridge in the summer but counter in winter unless it’s an easy spreadable one in which case it can always be in the fridge

This is true. If it’s a preference, great. If it isn’t and is about the fear of it going off, that’s a bit daft.

Mines in a butter dish in a cupboard, i cut a chunk off the block, the rest lives in the fridge until the butter dish runs low.
If anyone has any butter dish recommendations?? Mine got dropped and glued back together so could use a new one

I have a small covered pot. I keep butter in the fridge and slice some off to keep in the cupboard. I don't get through a lot of butter so I have to keep it in the fridge so it doesn't go off. It's much easier to portion as I need.

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its off in the summer but means it’s always soft in winter, even in our cold kitchen

In a butter dish unless peak summer (you know that two weeks in late June when we all get hopeful, only to be disappointed very soon after!)

Well, it isn't butter if it's a spreadable. It's a spread that may or may not contain butter so I would imaging you would need to keep that in the fridge.

My cat prefers the butter to be left on the side.

I'm with your DH OP. It's so annoying when the butter is so hard it rips holes in the bread.

Get a big block of butter. Cut smaller pieces off it and keep them in the butter dish on the side, keep the main block in the fridge.

I agree with DH. You can’t spread real butter from the fridge.

Half in fridge. Half out. Unless you eat a lot of butter and then leave the whole thing out.

Yes. Then it’s not butter, it’s a mix of other fats.

Not all lurpak is spreadable though. Not sure why people think that it is. Lurpak comes in block form as well.