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I prefer butter, but I leave it in the fridge and if I want to spread something on my bread in a snap without thawing the butter, I use margarine instead. It's

I prefer butter, but I leave it in the fridge and if I want to spread something on my bread in a snap without thawing the butter, I use margarine instead. It's just another spread variant. I don't understand the margarine hate.

nextweek2 5y ago
You can leave butter out in an air tight container. Just get the right kind.
- pacaro 5y ago
  A lot of this also depends on what "room-temperature" is in your environment. My parents house has a pantry which is on the northern wall of the house and is ventilated, for most of the year the temperature in there is significantly lower than the rest of the house, butter and many cheeses do better in the pantry than the fridge. If there's a significant heatwave they need to be moved to the fridge. By comparison, my apartment (constructed 150 years later) has an open plan with the kitchen almost in the middle of the floorplan. There's nowhere reasonable to store butter other than the fridge
Doxin 5y ago
A butter bell is a great way to store butter at room temperature. Doesn't really seem to make it last any less than in a fridge either.
- loeg 5y ago
  We just leave it out on a plate. It keeps at room temperature as long as you go through it in a couple weeks.
  - Doxin 5y ago
    Depends on the local climate I imagine. Butter doesn't tend to spoil in catastrophic ways in any case, so it's fairly safe to experiment. As long as it looks, smells, and tastes fine, it's fine.
    - loeg 5y ago
      Yeah, we're at 47.6° N.
eMSF 5y ago
I use a cheese slicer for cold butter :-) Unrelated to this, there's something weird going on on with the comment dates in this thread – or at least something I haven't noticed before. On some pages (for example, the top level thread) it says that your comment is an hour old, but if I click "reply", on that page it says 15 hours instead.
- parkersweb 5y ago
  Or you could get a japanese butter knife! https://food52.com/shop/products/5105-japanese-butter-knife https://food52.com/shop/products/5105-japanese-butter-knife
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nextweek2 5y ago

You can leave butter out in an air tight container. Just get the right kind.

pacaro 5y ago
A lot of this also depends on what "room-temperature" is in your environment. My parents house has a pantry which is on the northern wall of the house and is ventilated, for most of the year the temperature in there is significantly lower than the rest of the house, butter and many cheeses do better in the pantry than the fridge. If there's a significant heatwave they need to be moved to the fridge. By comparison, my apartment (constructed 150 years later) has an open plan with the kitchen almost in the middle of the floorplan. There's nowhere reasonable to store butter other than the fridge

Doxin 5y ago

A butter bell is a great way to store butter at room temperature. Doesn't really seem to make it last any less than in a fridge either.

loeg 5y ago
We just leave it out on a plate. It keeps at room temperature as long as you go through it in a couple weeks.
- Doxin 5y ago
  Depends on the local climate I imagine. Butter doesn't tend to spoil in catastrophic ways in any case, so it's fairly safe to experiment. As long as it looks, smells, and tastes fine, it's fine.
  - loeg 5y ago
    Yeah, we're at 47.6° N.

eMSF 5y ago

I use a cheese slicer for cold butter :-) Unrelated to this, there's something weird going on on with the comment dates in this thread – or at least something I haven't noticed before. On some pages (for example, the top level thread) it says that your comment is an hour old, but if I click "reply", on that page it says 15 hours instead.

parkersweb 5y ago
Or you could get a japanese butter knife! https://food52.com/shop/products/5105-japanese-butter-knife https://food52.com/shop/products/5105-japanese-butter-knife
- deleted 5y ago
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