Storing butter at room temperature

blackandwhitebunny

Another vote for butter only, we try and use as little as possible but I'm far more comfortable with it being a natural product than the M thing.
I tend to cut about a quarter off a block and it goes in the dish on the counter unless its very hot.

lapis_lazuli

alex21 wrote: »

Came home tonight to find DS finishing off the dishes from his romantic meal last night.
Me. Hi love, er, where's the butter?
DS. Oh, I just threw it out
Me. WHY?
DS. Mum, it had been lying out all day. yuk
Me. In a butter dish (strangled tone)

Haha! You should have got him a pot of cream, put some in a screw top jar and got him to shake it, and shake it, and shake it. After about 15 minutes he would have tired arms and you would have fresh butter!

Ben84

Butter has existed for thousands of years before refrigerators. I keep mine in a cupboard in a glass dish for weeks and it has never gone bad. I think the problem is people think it's dairy so it won't last long, but really I'm sure the major reason why people first made butter was as a way to store milk fat before refrigeration and other modern preserving methods like cans.

redlady_1

I don't even acknowledge the M stuff! The OH has Benecol and I hate it. My butter lives in a butter dish and if you buy the large one from Waitrose it works out quite cheap. It never goes in the fridge.

I made the decision that when I had my own place I would never eat the M stuff, and I never have. My mum always used it but my great gran was the one who introduced me to butter.

If this makes me a snob too, I really don't care.

terra_ferma

I got duped into buying Lurpak spreadable, when it was called 'spreadable butter' and didn't have a list of ingredients (different laws at the time apparently, for some reason they were allowed to call it butter). Got used to it, and liked the fact of lower calories, and also that you can spread it.
But now can't wait to finish the stock I have in the freezer to buy the proper stuff, and leave out.
My OH looked a bit worried when I said I was planning to keep butter out, 'won't it go off?'

TrashyBook

Slightly off topic... but my gran used to always refer to butter as "best butter".

So I wondered - were there ever different grades of butter?

Anyone else heard it referred to as "best" ?

peachyprice

Another butter user here, I can't stand any of these artificial 'spreads', yuk. I always leave it out in a glass butter dish, I've never known it to go off. The work top in the kitchen it's on is north facing and always seems to keep it cool enough.

EstherH

Hi, yes, I've heard people call it best butter but I always assumed they were differentiating between butter and marg.

We never put butter in the fridge either, always out in a butter dish.
Esther x