Where do you keep your butter?

[Phemie]

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.

I would keep ‘natural’ peanut butter in the fridge just as I do tahini. But Kraft or Skippy or JIF? Cupboard all the way.

 

[lifeisbeautiful]

I would keep ‘natural’ peanut butter in the fridge just as I do tahini. But Kraft or Skippy or JIF? Cupboard all the way.

Lo, oh yeah, I’m talking JIF etc here, I didn’t try the natural till recently, but yeah, natural and tahini go in fridge, though I only used tahini for hummus when we were on a hummus kick, and we are no longer on that kick.

 

[masondoggy]

We keep our butter in a covered container on the counter, that’s just how I grew up. Never, ever have I tasted rancid butter.

When DH and I were dating, he lived with two roomates and I spent a lot of time at his apartment. At first, I got along really well with his one roomate, Dave. I started bringing my own butter over there because nobody there bought it and I liked to use it on my food when I was there. I had it in a covered dish and put it up in a cupboard. Every time Dave found it in there, he stuck it in the fridge. Then when I’d find it in the fridge, I asked him nicely to leave it in the cupboard. Next thing I know, it ends up in the fridge again. This went back and forth resulting in a HUGE battle between the two of us. It was not pretty, but now, over a decade later, me and my sil get a huge laugh over it. I had a pretty good chuckle when I saw this thread, lol…

 

[PaulinVA]

Besides, we have this mutual agreement that the one who leaves first has to take all the kids.

You too? It’s kept us together for 25 years!

 

[Just_wondering]

Wow, seven pages about butter! I say it goes on the counter, and I’m from a dairy farming family too. Having said that, though, I live alone, so MY butter is in the fridge. Actually, I use it so rarely at home that I barely use it up unless I do some baking. The only time I use butter at home is for when I have a nice loaf of homemade bread fresh out of the oven. Of course, when that happens, I can use refrigerated butter because I cut the bread when it’s still hot enough to burn my fingers… you know, it smells so good, I can’t wait to try it… and so it’s hot enough to melt the butter as soon as I put it on there, and the refrigerated butter is fine. When I get married, though, the butter is going to go on the counter again.

 

[MarieVeronica]

COLD peanut butter???!! How do you spread it?

We refrigerate our peanut butter too. We use “Jiff” ever since the PB recall <supposedly, it’s never been part of any recall>; smooth or chunky… it stays soft and spreadable, even in the fridge!