help solve our butter battle

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dh says we have to keep the butter in fridge. if my back is turned he slips it in. i have always (and so did mum) kept butter in butter dish in the larder. why put it in fridge? it just comes out like a brick and useless.

if dh gets butter out of fridge he slices it like cheese and puts it on his toast. whereas i spread it

pft

Have M&S spreadable butter. Take out of fridge first thing in morning, then it's okay for breakfast.

I did try and keep ordinary butter in butter dish, not in fridge, for a while. Result - one rather nice butter dish, rendered unusable because of stench of rancid butter which won't shift even though it's been in the dishwasher numerous times .

Slightly off topic, but still butter related. Has anybody noticed that the price of butter has shot up recently? I went to buy my usual butter and noticed that it had gone up from 85p to £1 in a very short space of time.

What's that all about then?

gosh mawbroon i hadnt noticed...

I only noticed because Sainsbury's had one of those "look, our price is just the same as Tesco's" signs up beside it. And the value butter has gone up even more, from around 53p to 80something.

Butter doesn't go off out of the fridge.
if he's worried, why not just out a couple of days' worth in the butter dish and oput it in the larder, then keep the rest in the fridge? that way it's only out for a couple of days.
And show him this thread

i wonder why its gone up so much...?

milk hasnt gone up

and don't get me started on the price of biscuits. That will be becuase of the wheat problems this year though, so I can understand that.....

Are you excited about tomorrow yet NP?

thanks for the link. i am going to keep half in fridge for freshness - cant believe i handt thought of that

yes i am rather excited about tomorrow. panicing though about what to wear. and dh has informed me there is going to be a storm right in the flight path...

You can freeze butter BTW. I buy my butter with my internet grocery shop and stick it in the freezer until I need it.

of course butter has shot up in price, I'm planning on making cakes as christmas presents this year.

Not just butter by the looks of it

Don't know why, but the price of cheese by the tonne amuses me greatly.

I put it in the fridge in the summer but keep it out the rest of the year. At the moment it is solid when out of the fridge it is so cold!!

Have noticed that salted butter has risen to the same price as unsalted, previously there was about 30p difference.

We have regular butter in a butter dish by the breadboard and then spreadable butter in the fridge for DH

I have this one
which is a tad less pricey and my butter is always spreadable + never goes off!

oooh we have that one too - it's v good

i like that, pinkpussy

yes mawbroon it has shot right up i noticed too!..

keep block in fridge here,
use bit in butter dish...

my bugbear is that dh dont refill dish when he uses last of it...

i dunno about that one pinkpussycat..is the angle or does it look like lunch pail from little house on the prairie?

mine is classic plastic, blue, pleasing curved shape and un chippable which has been invaluable too
from heals years ago about £6 then...

Anna, my image of you wandering round Parisian delicatessens with a little wicker basket has been shattered by the revelation that you do internet shopping...

We keep it in the fridge until we open it then it's kept out of the fridge. I also keep eggs out of the fridge too.

HairyIrene - you have obv been watching Little house on the prarie in FAR too much detail!

ppc..just good memory for odd things!
i wanted one at the time i remember and for sandwiches to be folded in the light pink gingham napkins..
awwww..

Habbibu - rest assured, internet shopping is only for the boring stuff (water, juice, butter, Ariel, Domestos etc) . I can't lug all that dull stuff home in a wicker basket, I'd be exhausted