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?

A single day sized portion in the covered butter dish with the rest in the fridge.

Unless you get through a whole pack in one day?

Covered butter dish in the cupboard! In the fridge when its very hot but brought out to soften before use!

It depends on how quickly you get through the butter and how warm the kitchen is. I've had the misfortune of experiencing the unique flavour of rancid butter on a couple of occasions where I'd had the butter on the counter for a week. I tend to get it out the fridge the night before now, and put it back after lunch.

The le crueset ones are great.

Proper butter in a butter dish on the side

Ketchup is preserved by its vinegar content, just like chutneys and pickles. I don't know what 'preservatives' you imagine it used to have.

Mayonnaise on the other hand will definitely keep its flavour better for longer by being refrigerated and it is recommended to do so.

As others have said you need a french butter bell/crock. The butter sits upside down in a small amount of water and whether it''s the height of summer or the cold depths of winter it is always at perfect spreadable temperature. They are fab. You can get them for about £25 and it is a life changer for those who want to move away from ultra processed "spreadable butter" ( aka not real butter").

Our is kept out of the fridge in a temperature controlled butter dish. It keeps it at the perfect spreadable temperature summer or winter.

I put butter in the fridge in the summer (if it’s hot) and keep it out in the winter.

Definitely; if it is spreadable from the fridge it isn't butter and therefore it doesn't matter what you do with it.

We have a butter dish for.the off times I buy butter. We have to keep in the cupboard the cats try to lick it.

Other spreads like margarine go in the fridge.

Butter in a dish in the food cupboard. Just take out the amount you think you need that day and leave the rest in the fridge.

Eh? When did I say I didn’t google?

The word 'butter' has gone weird for me now.

I have an Aga. If I leave butter out it liquefies and/or goes rancid very quickly.

I had an aga for years until I moved house. Never had that issue.

This is a pretty good compromise, actually.

I'm a butter dish on the side kinda woman.

Butter bell on the side

That argument doesn't really work though, as with some things it's only once they've been opened that you need to refrigerate them.

Butter, tomatoes, eggs, and cucumbers - none of them should live in the fridge, yet whenever my mum comes, she will try and put at least two of the above in there!!

do half in fridge
other half in fridge

Both are right- preference

This time of year it's out of the fridge and still like a brick.

Unopened packs of butter for storage - in the fridge.

Opened butter for use - on the counter.

Spreadable "butter" - in the bin.

Butter dish, it's too cold to spread otherwise.
If it's very warm in summer I just put half a block at a time in the dish