Storing butter at room temperature

Ich_2

I can certainly remember my mother storing butter in a butter dish in a cupboard, in the days before we had a fridge - I don't recall it ever going "off" except in very hot weather

scaredy_cat

i only have butter now, cos it's a natural product and not filled with chemicals.

anguk

If I could afford it we would only ever use butter because I think the taste is far superior, but as I can't afford it we use butter for spreading and margarine for baking.

Our butter is always left out on the bench in a butter dish unless the weather is too warm.

scaredy_cat

anguk wrote: »

If I could afford it we would only ever use butter because I think the taste is far superior, but as I can't afford it we use butter for spreading and margarine for baking.

Our butter is always left out on the bench in a butter dish unless the weather is too warm.

i get mine from Asda, Willow is £1.

anguk

scaredy_cat wrote: »

i get mine from Asda, Willow is £1.

I've tried Willow but I'm not that keen on it and it's not real butter it's just block margarine.

http://www.dairycrest.co.uk/our-brands-products/willow.aspx

prosaver

meg72 wrote: »

Mines on the sidein a small tupperware dish, theres only me so I just puta coupleofoncesa time in the dish and keepthe rest in the fridge,and swear like mad when I have forgotten to take some out.

me too
but sometimes when i tidy up i put it in the fridge by mistake
..silly me

scaredy_cat

anguk wrote: »

I've tried Willow but I'm not that keen on it and it's not real butter it's just block margarine.

http://www.dairycrest.co.uk/our-brands-products/willow.aspx

bloomin heck! so it is!! :mad:

i assumed cos it was with the butter in the cabinet it was butter. well, i won't be buying that anymore.

anguk

scaredy_cat wrote: »

bloomin heck! so it is!! :mad:

i assumed cos it was with the butter in the cabinet it was butter. well, i won't be buying that anymore.

Yes they're very clever with the marketing, they don't actually call it butter but it's always placed with the butter in the fridges.

Chaos_Monkey

This reminds me of when I was in my teens......my Mum always had butter out in a proper butter dish in the kitchen rather than the fridge. It rarely got warm enough in Blackpool for it to melt! Anyway, our dog used to stay in the quite large kitchen while we nipped out and one day we came home to find the dog lying on the bench top and a licked clean butter dish. He wasn't very well the day after, as being an Alsatian cross had a sensitive tummy! Yuk!!

He was a bu99er though, I also remember him having a whole pan of hot soup off the cooker top, and on another occasion, a whole raw frozen chicken, including the cligfilm wrapper (he did leave the polystyrene tray, though).

He quite often wasn't my Mum's favourite creature on earth......

rachbc

another one who won't let the m stuff in! I by 500g blocks of butter an put 1/4 out in the vintage glass butte dish at a time for on toast etc. If I need more softening quickly for a cake or similar then I give it 20 secs on low in the microwae.

hen the price shot up I did try the plastic stuff for baking but cakes lost that specialness!