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?

Mine lives on the windowsill in a lovely dish and in the summer moves to the worktop.

My butter isn't going off any time soon. It's still brick hard even left out on the worktop in its covered dish

@Tryingtokeepgoing and that's why I don't use the Anchor one or lurpack for that matter.

M&S and Lidl both do one with no added oils.

https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-softer-butter-518030011?utmsource=google&utmmmedium=cpc&utmcampaign=955441401&utmmcontent=non-brand&gclsrc=aw.ds&dsrl=1291540&dssrl=1126321&dsrl=1164972&gaddsource=1&gbraid=0AAAAADi6iHkOVwaC2FZWqBp-1NhCKIU1q

On the side it’s a pain to spread out of the fridge.

This is the way, if you know how much you use every couple of days or so then get a container that will hold that amount and then cut up your block of butter to suit.

Buy yourself some for each.

None of these organisations know what they're talking about

People keep butter OUT of the fridge?

Every day is a school day.

I keep pretty much everything, eggs, butter, chocolate, ketchup, all in the fridge.

@IrisPallida agreed! I deliberately look for softer butter with no added oil as I can't bare it but some people are not having it 🤣

Butter dish on the bread board in the winter, in the fridge in the summer.

@soupfiend The producers of butter don't know what they're talking about. Ok cool.

Completely depends if spreadable or not. We only use spreadable for convenience but I grew up with a butter dish on the surface. We don’t have anywhere to put one so it would be in the way.

Butter out on the kitchen top in our house.. In a butter dish. With the lid on it. Summer and winter. NOTHING bad has ever happened. Except we have nice soft butter.

Butter dish! I live in Northern Ireland though and so it rarely melts in the heat!

This time of year ours lives in a lidded butter dish in the cupboard with the salt & pepper, condiments and whatnot. During the summer when (if) it's hot, we just put a small lump in the dish and keep the rest of it in the fridge.

You don't have to use the whole block in one go, one half in the butter dish on the side, the other half in the fridge to use later. In the summer i cut the block into 3.

Just have 2 butters on the go, so everyone's happy. It's not like it won't get used.

The perfect solution is a beurrier, or French butter dish. It's oxygen which makes butter go off, and the beurrier solves this by sealing the butter in water. Try Caractacus Pots on Etsy. Full disclaimer - these particular ones are made by a friend, but she doesn't know I'm posting!

Fridge.

Definitely try a butter bell. Have them on Amazon.

I don't see how it can be ick if it's covered up in a butter dish? Do you feel ick about stuff like, say, bread or fruit if you don't leave it in the fridge?

I didn’t know this about butter

Mayo definitely should be stored in the fridge once opened…ketchup and mustard fine in the cupboard.

I live in Scotland. Although, I am Irish. Dp is Scottish though. Our butter lives in a dish on the counter.

Real butter never in the fridge in this house