To keep spreadable butter in the cupboard

[willywallaby]

Every time MIL comes round she moves the spreadable butter from the cupboard to the fridge and explains that it spreads straight from the fridge, so it needs to be kept in the fridge. Spreadable butter does not spread straight from the fridge though. None of the own brand ones do and Anchor doesn't. I don't know about Lurpak. MIL bakes all her own sourdough so maybe it spreads better on there. And it spreads okay on toast. But making a regular sandwich on supermarket sliced bread is a ridiculous experience with spreadable butter unless it's at room temp. I only keep spreadable butter in the fridge if the weather is hot enough to liquify the butter. Or if MIL has been round and I haven't put things right again.

Surely it says keep refrigerated on the container?? Your MIL is right, you never keep butter in the cupboard! It’s dairy, it lives in the fridge.

I only use normal butter. It lives in the cupboard.

My butter is in a butter dish on the kitchen work surface. Goes in the fridge if not likely to use it for a day or more.

Ditch the crappy spread and buy butter

She's right sorry

I’m the wrong person to ask as I buy block butter, put it in a butter dish and then put it in the fridge. I like my butter cold 😆

She’s an interfering twat. She can do what she wants in her own home but she can’t dictate to you.

Tell her to stop moving the butter. And next time you’re at hers, move the butter into the cupboard, she how she likes it.

I buy block butter and keep it in a butter dish on the worktop. Its still solid in the winter even out the fridge

How the hell do you spread it? Ours has to go in the microwave for 10 seconds (portion sized) before it can go on bread.

She's interfering and bloody rude, as it is your house and you can do what you want.
But......I have butter (real butter) in my butter dish, out on the counter until it is finished. We use about two pats a week, maybe less, so it can stay in the dish for 3-5 days and it spreads perfectly and has never, ever gone off. It's far better for you too!

She's right but it's your home.

I cut it really thinly and lay the thin slice on top rather than trying to spread it. I like a LOT of butter to be fair.

If it needs to be spread thinly for some reason then I have to get it out ahead of time.

Of course "spreadable" butter spreads straight from the fridge. That's literally why it was invented.

Only buy real butter, lives on the counter

I have butter 🧈 in a butter dish. It’s out on a work surface 365. It only goes in the fridge if its roasting hot and melting.

This. She’s right but she’s being a knob.

Proper butter, in a butter dish, in the pantry (cupboard, I suppose)

You’ll taste it when it goes off - tastes like blue cheese.
Even normal butter goes off eventually so keeping it out us fine but be mindful of how long it takes to use it - going keto meant much less butter as no bread.

Mine certainly does, all those I've tried do! I usually use whatever supermarket version of lurpak is on hand

I don't really care about those of you who use block butter, it's not relevant. I didn't ask what butter everybody uses.

I use normal butter and just keep a small bit out of each day in a little butter dish. But I wouldn't leave a whole tub or packet out

Don’t buy spreads, they are full of non necessary ingredients to make them spread. Just buy butter and leave it out. It’s better for you.

Fair enough!

I have a friend who also keeps her spread in the cupboard. MIL just needs to mind her own business!

Never put mine in the fridge as it doesn't spread so well from the fridge. I agree it's annoying when visitors move it to the fridge.

You lost me at "spreadable" - anything with that word before it is not TRUE butter.
Full-fat block butter (e.g. Lurpak slightly salted) is the only real thing. Mine sits in a lidded butter dish in the store cupboard to the right of the hob where I keep tins of things.
I also have my own Lurpak slightly salted butter mountain of frozen full-fat blocks in the freezer bought when it was on offer - defrosts a treat!