How long does butter keep in the freezer?

Si_Clist · 24 March 2015 at 7:19PM

Seeing as how Waitrose has currently got a worthwhile offer on the block butter we like (Kerrygold), I'm intent upon getting some to keep in the freezer. But how long can I reasonably expect to keep it frozen and it still be just like a block straight from the chiller is when I eventually defrost it?

(I did the obvious and emailed Kerrygold to ask them, but apparently it might be next Tuesday before I'm favoured with a reply ...)

krlyr · 24 March 2015 at 8:38PM

I've had butter frozen for months with no degradation - you may expect some loss of quality if it wasn't sealed properly, but other than that I'd imagine it would be fine indefinitely. Google answers seem to suggest a year for optimum flavour.

GreyQueen · 24 March 2015 at 8:42PM

I got a lot of butter a couple of years ago, silly cheap (8p a block) as it was on it's BBD. I froze it and ate it over the subsequent months, the oldest was about 10 months old when I finished it up. No apparent difference from unfrozen.

I'd buy big, if it's a sweet deal. Lots of peeps don't know it's freezable.

pogofish · 24 March 2015 at 8:48PM

Butter keeps for ages even out of the freezer.

A barrel of butter from a 1930s shipreck was recently washed ashore here, well most of the barrel had rotted away but my work got some for testing and once they were a few inches-in, away from the marine life that had colonised the surface, the microbiologists reckoned most of the butter was still safe to eat.

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