Do you refrigerate butter?

ConnieT1030

Only in fridge though sometimes I try to get it out ahead of time to warm a bit. I have experimented with keeping it out various times in my life, and what happens most often is I use WAY MORE, because it's very handy and so easy to use. Butter is a weakness for me, so it's better if it's out of sight. I am trying whipped now to make measuring small amounts easier, but if it's too easy to use, that will be a fail, too lol.
In Florida, it's easy for things to get too warm and moldy if they sit out. I can keep bread on the counter for a week or two in the winter, but in the summer, it can go moldy in about 3 days if it's left on the counter (in the bag).

jayeless

I definitely refrigerate butter - it wouldn't have occurred to me not to, due to being dairy and prone to melt. I also refrigerate my eggs, seeing as fridges generally come with special egg-holders and it'd be a waste not to use them. (Also, it was what my parents always did.)

Then again, I'm also an Australian who lives without air conditioning, and even my parents' house only had AC in two bedrooms (not mine). In the summer we have to refrigerate chocolate too

amusedmonkey

Speaking of eggs, I don't have to refrigerate them (ours are not washed or treated), but I like to anyway. They hold together better for sunny side up and poaching when refrigerated.

tiptoethruthetulips

No to winter, summer yes.

fishshark

i refridgerate everything. Even things that done need to be/shouldnt be. I dont like food out.

unsuspectingfish

As a kid, we never did, but I don't use that much, anymore, and I mostly use the spreadable butter (with olive oil in it), these days, so it's soft without being left out. We did keep it in the fridge during the summer, though, because we didn't have AC and we lived in the desert, where it would get up in the 100s, meaning butter puddles.

lynn_glenmont

jayeless wrote: »

I definitely refrigerate butter - it wouldn't have occurred to me not to, due to being dairy and prone to melt. I also refrigerate my eggs, seeing as fridges generally come with special egg-holders and it'd be a waste not to use them. (Also, it was what my parents always did.)

Then again, I'm also an Australian who lives without air conditioning, and even my parents' house only had AC in two bedrooms (not mine). In the summer we have to refrigerate chocolate too

Actually, for food safety, it is recommended that you don't store eggs in the refrigerator door.

I refer you to the Egg Farmers of Canada.
http://www.eggs.ca/eggs101/view/39/egg-storage-freshness-and-food-safety

onsickmom

I set it out if I'm gonna be baking or something....But store all dairy products inside the fridge

Emily3907

I buy my butter at Costco and this is how it goes in my house:
- Kept in Freezer until ready for fridge
- 1 box is kept in fridge
- 1 stick is kept in butter dish on counter
and then I move them as needed. So, when my fridge butter starts to run low, I grab a box from freezer.

I always have a stick on the counter. I like my butter to be spreadable, so I have to have some ready to go at all times.

jcraig10

I've never seen anyone around here (MD) leave butter on the counter.

fr3smyl

I went to a friends house today...and surprise...they don't refrigerate butter.

nvmomketo

I keep some in the fridge and some in a glass container with a lid (keeps out dog hair or bugs) on the stove top. It is rarely so hot that the butter melts here. The house is usually 17C but will go up to 25C on our hottest days. At those temps it is just nicely spreadable.

And butter NEVER goes bad here, We go through more than one block per week. LOL

ritzvin

Depends on room temperature and how fast it gets used. In summer, it will melt if left out. In winter, it's fine. If used sparingly, it will eventually mold (possibly due to cross-contamination where untouched butter might have been fine) or go bad if left out (but that will take a while). (Salted butter. Unsalted butter may act differently).

Need2Exerc1se

I do. It's what my mom did so I never really considered doing otherwise. I keep a mix of butter and olive oil in the fridge for easy spreading. I don't use much butter and only use stick butter occasionally for cooking.

GottaBurnEmAll

fishshark wrote: »

i refridgerate everything. Even things that done need to be/shouldnt be. I dont like food out.

That's pretty much me. I have all sorts of things hanging out in the fridge.

SoDamnHungry

I refrigerate, but only because I go through butter so slowly. I eat it on toast once in awhile and it takes me six months to get through a tub of whipped butter. And I only use sticks for baking so may as well keep them in the fridge as many recipes call for cold butter.

mattdhall

I keep mine in the fridge, but I get it out and put it on the counter about an hour before I'm going to use it so it will soften up.

FitBitFitter

I keep one stick out, in a glass butter boat and the rest goes in the fridge, until the boat needs a refill.

BruinsGal_91

One stick out in a butter boat. (Covered because otherwise the cat thinks it's for her).

The rest in the fridge, unless a recipe calls for room-temperature butter; then it goes into a cat-proof cupboard until it's ready to use.

3rdof7sisters

I have a covered butter dish that is left out on the counter. Land o'Lakes has butter wrapped in 4 TBSP with 8 in a 1pound box. I keep the rest of the pound refrigerated.

BruinsGal_91 wrote: »

One stick out in a butter boat. (Covered because otherwise the cat thinks it's for her).

The rest in the fridge, unless a recipe calls for room-temperature butter; then it goes into a cat-proof cupboard until it's ready to use.

LOL, I hear you about the cat-proof cupboard My dd's cat has been know to get up on top of the refrigerator to get goodies.