Where do you keep your butter?

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ok, now I have a question regarding practicality of the butter bell… you those of you who use one have trouble with the crumbs? Do you wash it every other day or everyday? And to fill it, do you just cut a stick of butter in pieces so it will fit?

well, that’s three questions I guess. 😛
 
We keep it in the fridge at our house. If you buy those tubs of I can’t believe it’s not butter, it spreads well even when it’s cold.

Our biggest marital butter debate is I buy unsalted, she likes salted. So we generally have both laying around because of that.
 
dulcissima said:
Olive oil can become rancid. It is always best to use the freshest olive oil possible. I like to buy the smallest bottles of extra virgin first cold pressing olive oil rather than a big bottle. I read in one of Andrew Weil’s books that oils that are starting to go rancid have an immediate effect on your heart and your arteries. It’s really important to only use really fresh oil or butter.
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Yes, it can become rancid but it doesn’t happen overnight. We use olive oil for the Holy Oils and they sit there for an entire year in clear glass containers without getting rancid. OK, after Father’s had his fingers in the Oil of the Ill and the Oil of Catechumens for anointings I wouldn’t want to eat it but it doesn’t smell bad when you rub it on someone.

Salted butter will also last, covered on the counter, at least a week without going bad – longer if it’s not too hot in the house.

So, tell me, where do you keep your ketchup and mustard?😃
 
I forgot to vote when I posted my answer a day or so ago, so I just voted for you!!
I figured as quickly as you use it up, its fine on the counter. We typically use salted when we use butter (for baking), otherwise we have soft spreadable stuff in the fridge.
You’re at 48.68% 👍
 
Consecrated said:
ok, now I have a question regarding practicality of the butter bell… you those of you who use one have trouble with the crumbs? Do you wash it every other day or everyday? And to fill it, do you just cut a stick of butter in pieces so it will fit?

well, that’s three questions I guess. 😛
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Well, see I’m already a nutcase about crumbs in the butter, so, I insist you wipe your knife. i don’t think it would be more of a problem then with butter that you just have out in a container?

The way it works is, you let a stick of butter come to room temp, then you fill the ‘bell’ part of the butter bell with the softened butter. Wait just look here…

butterbell.com/airtight.php

and here

butterbell.com/video.php
 
Uhoh, we’re among the people who don’t keep/use much butter, so we do have is either frozen or in the fridge as we buy the unsalted cultured butter (even says on the box freeze if not using soon). We pretty much use oil (olive, sunflower, grapeseed, sesame…) for cooking or dipping bread and butter for baking around the holidays. Plus, cold butter works best for pie crusts. Although, butter on fresh bread is fantastic, so on the rare occasions that we bake bread, the butter sits out to soften while the bread is being made. :aok:
 
Consecrated said:
just curious… do you bake without salt, too? I can’t imagine what a horror of a loaf would tun out if one omitted the salt from bread dough. :eek: 😃
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Honestly, I don’t put salt in any baking. Nobody really notices except my mom because she always adds salt to everything she makes.
 
ketchup - fridge
mustard - fridge
peanut butter - fridge

(otherwise my fridge would look empty!)
 
I voted for the keeping the butter on the counter. After all, it is more fun to throw that at your husband that it is for him to throw hard butter from the fridge at you. 😛 Butter from the fridge is just too cold…

Uhh, I am not going to finish that sentence.

In the kitchen, I don’t use much butter except for baking. I use olive oil for pretty much everything.
 
Thanks so much for all of your votes and responses. Since I am clearly the winner, I am going to show this thread to my dear husband when he comes home. I think all of your experiences of butter on the counter without getting sick should be enough to convince him that it’s ok.

I’m also going to show him the Butter Balls… but, knowing my husband like I do, my guess is he’d rather save the $ and agree to keep the butter out.

7 pages about butter. Who knew?! 😃
 
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Phemie said:
Don’t dis the Tupperware!😃 That’s what I use right now, the one from their “Open House” collection.
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weeeeellll, maybe it’d be ok if it was “real” tupperware… but it’s not! hehehe it’s glaringly generic. 😃 I’m sure yours is much prettier…
 
I keep it in the fridge. But my mom… always kept it on the dining table.

I will never forget something that happened, when my sisters and I were kids; A couple months after we had gotten a new puppy… we got up, one Saturday morning… and found the puppy standing ON the table… licking the butter!! :rotfl:

Somehow, she had managed to climb up on a chair, hop up on the table… and nudge the cover off the butter dish.

I think that memory… even though it makes me laugh… always prompted me to keep my own butter in the fridge. :rolleyes:
 
I keep butter in the freezer, and take out one stick at a time, as I use it. That stick is kept in the fridge.

I’m the only one using the butter, and wouldn’t want to leave it at room temperature for the amount of time it takes for me to use it up. Besides, the thought of soft, mushy butter sort of squicks me out. In the summertime, it would melt outright, as I don’t have air conditioning. :eek: I never worry about it being spreadable, because anything I would spread it on is probably hot, and the butter will start melting as soon as I put it on. Anyway, I love the contrast between hot food, and ice-cold slivers of butter. 😃

Anyone who thinks you eat too much butter needs to check out this 1950s family:

youtube.com/watch?v=mPpQ8DLCzJQ

:dancing:
 
We keep our butter in the fridge as did my family as did my husband’s family. I have never known anyone to keep butter outside of the fridge. This was a shock to me, but yesterday when I needed to wash the butter dish before putting a new stick in it, I just left the unwrapped stick sitting on the counter. DH got home and said “What is the butter still doing out?” I told him I just never put it back in the fridge and he gave me this look :(:mad::confused::nope::tsktsk: and then wrapped the stick back up and put it in the fridge where it belongs. I told him I recently found out that you can leave butter out and not worry it will spoil but he just shook his head. LOL.
 
Butter is fine if left on the countertop if it’s covered. Although I’d keep it in the fridge overnight. But if you go through a stick a day or close to it, then why even bother?

Another thing you could do is cut the sticks in half (so one package of butter would = 8 mini-sticks) and put a half-stick of butter at a time out in the covered dish. Less butter to possibly go bad on you sitting out that way.

Here’s the butter rules of my house: First, only real butter. Nothing else, ever. I live alone at the moment so don’t go through anywhere near a stick a day. But I keep a tub of whipped butter (100% real) and I put it out on the counter in the morning while getting dressed, making coffee, etc. So by the time I’m ready to eat a bagel or whatever for breakfast, the butter is soft enough to spread.
 
Sina said:
Pepper… I sort of wrote a bit semantically. We don’t put the salt and pepper shakers out on the table unless people are come. I do put pepper in our food. I am a fan of spice. Don’t worry! haha. I don’t put salt in our food though. True it is needed for life, but as you guessed, I get it from all the cheese I eat! ( yeah cheese is probably just as bad for you as butter is, but I love cheese)

Yeah Olive Oil can go rancid. It has never happened to me, but they do have expiry dates…
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We used to buy olive oil in those gallon cans, and we did have a can go rancid once. So I don’t buy large cans of it any more. We keep our butter in a covered dish in the cupboard, except on the very hottest of days (because it melts), but we have a/c now. In 40 years I have never had any stick of butter go rancid.

I have recently learned a new way to butter corn from my grandkids–butter part of a slice of bread first with the butter you want to use on your corn, then butter the hot corn with that. It is easy to spread that way, esp. for kids, who usually end up eating the bread, too.
 
yellowbird said:
COLD peanut butter???!! :eek: How do you spread it?
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Until I got married, I thought PB always went in the fridge once opened lol. I had to read the label when dh told me, and then I saw that it doesn’t say refrigerate after opening. When I make pb and j sandwiches (actually I do PB and apple butter, but anyways) I stick it in the freezer a little while before I eat it because I like cold pb and apple butter sandwiches.
 
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