Refrigerate Or Not...HELP....?!
I'm not talking about margarine..(vegetable oils or spreads) Those items harden your arteries and I only eat that stuff when I have to.
I am a butter lover!!!!...I don't like hard butter, and find that when it goes back into the frig, I use the microwave or a pan to soften what I need, however I don't like it completely melted butter on breads, or things and I don't like bubbles or that weird look butter gets when it gets softened like that...
I leave mine out...but every time I turn around my roommate is putting it back into the refrigerator...Pet Peeve to say the least...LOL....So please someone help me?? ..so I know what to do here....
What do you do??
Answers: If you have "real" butter in a butter container, would you leave it out so that it can stay soft and you can butter things with ease, or would you put it back in the refrigerator time and time again where it gets hard and difficult to spread onto anything??
I'm not talking about margarine..(vegetable oils or spreads) Those items harden your arteries and I only eat that stuff when I have to.
I am a butter lover!!!!...I don't like hard butter, and find that when it goes back into the frig, I use the microwave or a pan to soften what I need, however I don't like it completely melted butter on breads, or things and I don't like bubbles or that weird look butter gets when it gets softened like that...
I leave mine out...but every time I turn around my roommate is putting it back into the refrigerator...Pet Peeve to say the least...LOL....So please someone help me?? ..so I know what to do here....
What do you do??
In the winter and spring then my father and I leave the butter on the counter 24/7 and we have NEVER EVER EVER had any problems with it...
NEVER once have we had food poisoning...
The ONLY reason we even covered it was because my cat would jump up on the counter in the middle of the night and eat half a stick of it!! (This cat lived to 21 and MIGHT have made it longer if his arthritus hadn't gotten so bad... So it didn't give him a heart attack and he ate a LOT of butter...)
In the summer we take it out at night for the morning and put it in the fridge when we leave the house...
If you go through a lot of butter you can leave it out in the summer until it turns... You know when it turns because it gets a more "Translusent" look to it and it smells funny... As long as it doesn't smell then it is fine.
I have left it out for days even in the summer when we ran the air conditioner for family visiting and it was fine.
My grandmother was like your roommate... My father had to actually put the butter on the stairs leading to the upstairs appartment so she couldn't see it and put it in the fridge...
I have NEVER gotten sick from counter butter and I have even eaten some when it had started to turn...
I leave it out...just like generations before us have done. :o)
I leave mine out all the time and have for years just make sure its tightly covered..
does not need refridgeration. I leave out small amounts all the time, haven't croaked yet. If you left it out weeks at a time, it might get sour but if you are using it in a timely fashion, no prob,
Put it in the fridge!
I just can't imagine not having cold butter. I'l actually throw it away if I leave it out too long and the whole sick gets mushy.
I leave my stick butters out...then they are soft when you go to use them.
we leave it out so it's soft =] just cover it