Do you refrigerate butter?

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  • not_my_first_rodeo
    not_my_first_rodeo Posts: 311 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    I wonder how many use real butter?

    Some is out and some is in the fridge at our house. Real butter. Never oleo. Never any problems leaving it out.

    I use real butter. Always. I haven't had margarine in decades. I buy it, freeze it, take one stick out and it lives in the fridge. Unless I have a recipe where it calls for softened butter. These days it goes much further as I use less of it than I used to.
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    elphie754 wrote: »
    Growing up, my mom always left the utter dish with a stick of butter, out on the counter. It was disgusting. Anytime I actually wantednor needed butter, I went in the fridge and got a new stick of butter and cut a piece from that. When ever she would say something, I told her I'd rather her be upset with me for a few minutes than get sick from dairy that was left out for days and started to look like soup.

    Now I buy land o lakes spreadable butter and I have turned her on to it as well. She always claimed to hate butter (well duh, it was rancid and disgusting) and now she likes it.

    LOL
    Never in my life have we refrigerated butter - 46 years old, never got sick, never had rancid butter...my parents before me ate unrefrigerated butter all their lives (born in the late 1920s...) Only kept the extra in the fridge, always had the stick out on the counter.
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    macelmer wrote: »
    Yes, because we purchase nondairy butter, Earth Balance. But the folks who work with me keep real butter out on top of the fridge, which causes it to melt all over the place. I stopped picking up after them.

    That's not real buddah. :s
  • butterfli7o
    butterfli7o Posts: 1,319 Member
    fr3smyl wrote: »
    I had no clue that there was an option of not refrigerating it.

    This, LOL.
  • Braddlzz
    Braddlzz Posts: 76 Member
    We have 40-50 degree celcius summers... There is no way we can leave it out without it becoming a puddle

    Even winter is like 25-30deg c
  • laur357
    laur357 Posts: 896 Member
    The container stays in the fridge, and I'll keep a quarter of a stick out to soften. It's fine for a few days to a week, unless it's the dead of summer. It's just me or me and my boyfriend, so we only need a little out at a time.
  • SkyFerret
    SkyFerret Posts: 53 Member
    Yes, because I live in Florida and it would go bad quickly otherwise. We used to have a butter bell, and that worked really well during the cooler months, but it broke a while back.
  • SkyFerret
    SkyFerret Posts: 53 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Wikipedia says "Butter remains a solid when refrigerated, but softens to a spreadable consistency at room temperature, and melts to a thin liquid consistency at 32–35 °C (90–95 °F)."

    It's never that warm in my house unless the AC is broken. We have hot summers, Oklahoma USA.

    Y'all really live and sleep in temps hot enough to melt butter?

    Hot enough to melt the butter? No. Hot enough to speed up spoilage and promote mold growth? Absolutely. I keep my house between 76 and 82 degrees most of the year, any cooler and the AC costs would beggar me.
  • Skyblueyellow
    Skyblueyellow Posts: 225 Member
    Yes, we refrigerate. It's how we roll. I know you don't HAVE to but it makes me feel better to do so, plus we have some pesky ants that try and hang out in our home during the spring and I don't need a food source out in the open.

    As far as spreading, I just take it out of the fridge a bit before eating or setting it on the stove helps to warm it a bit.

    I think it's simply a personal preference related to what you are used to!
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    edited January 2017
    minority18392 wrote: »
    We have 40-50 degree celcius summers... There is no way we can leave it out without it becoming a puddle

    Even winter is like 25-30deg c

    You winter is our hottest days of summer. LOL It's about -24C right now - I can feel it if you get within 2 feet of the walls. Brr.
  • 3rdof7sisters
    3rdof7sisters Posts: 486 Member
    nvmomketo wrote: »
    minority18392 wrote: »
    We have 40-50 degree celcius summers... There is no way we can leave it out without it becoming a puddle

    Even winter is like 25-30deg c

    You winter is our hottest days of summer. LOL It's about -24C right now - I can feel it if you get within 2 feet of the walls. Brr.

    It is 6 F here right now (MN)
    Who knew butter got mold on it?
  • evileen99
    evileen99 Posts: 1,564 Member
    TmacMMM wrote: »
    Not usually. Just keep it covered. We go through it fast enough that it doesn't go rancid. I do put the extra sticks in the fridge for storage. In the summer, I do refrigerate because it won't stay solid.

    This.
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