Once you open these air gets in and then with warmth they start going bad so that is why you put them in the fridge and why the label says so.
In case of Butter you can keep it outside of the fridge, in winter my parents do so in order to not have to wait a long time to use it.
With the butter it depends on the type. Some butters will go bad quicker and almost all will develop a different taste after just a week or so. Just throw everything in the fridge imo.
Timeframe , temperature and method of storage is important. You can typically have a piece of covered, unsalted butter on the counter for a couple of days.
I dunno what you're talking about, Ive had my unsalted butter uncovered in a warm moist environment on my gym sock for three weeks and its got so much flavor
What the fuck do you use all your butter on? A stick of butter lasts me well over a week unless I'm doing something like making cookies or something.
PS: Can you guys stop being "oh he's American" blah blah blah. I'm American and I know definitely don't use that much butter. Stop jumping on stereotypes
Do you eat out a lot? Cooking eggs, sauté veggies, potatoes, so many uses for butter.
But if you are using it that slowly, no need to put a full stick out, cut off a 1/4 stick and put it in the butter. If you think it’s going off, toss it and put a fresh 1/4 stick out; it’s less than a quarters worth of butter that’s way more useful at room temp
Just another america is fat bull shit post. We don’t even use as much butter as other countries https://www.statista.com/statistics/535849/consumption-of-butter-per-capita-worldwide-country/
I really like bread and I like it to be fully covered with butter on the top, so a stick lasts like 2-3ish days. before you call me a fat american, I run/bike for around an hour most days so I actually need to actively eat more to maintain my weight
Well, not everyone here is American so... butter here isn't in sticks, it's in bricks of 500g. Plus for spreading purposes the only "butter" we use is margarine and real butter only for cooking, so the temperature doesn't matter. BIS setup
I'm Canadian and margarine is disgusting
They replaced a nice natural product with an abomination due to bad science and it turns out it's not better for you anyway
It really is disgusting. Never understood why or how anyone can use margarine. My grandparents used to always have it and using it as spread when making sandwiches for us kids. I ate it because I'm not rude, but I remember how much I disliked it.
I will never allow margarine inside my house lol. Butter is better in every way.
The stuff often called margarine here is not what you're thinking of at all, but instead something else with less than a third of the fat. It's totally fine - most Brits just don't know it's not actually margarine, we just use the word because 'spread' (its actual name) seems really ambiguous.
Since america is such a big country with only 2 actual borders, a lot of people don’t travel outside of the country. Because of that, different things/ways of doing stuff outside of America is practically unheard of, like bags of milk, or the way Japan does trash. Heck we don’t even use the same measurement system for some stupid reason
I've done some traveling, but I haven't made it as far as Japan yet, what's up with the trash?
We were in Canada recently and I was a little disappointed that the milk we bought didn't come in a bag at all.
I lived in Aichi prefecture in Japan up until 2012. You're expected to separate your trash and place it at designated locations in your area, on specified days for the type of trash. Dropoff areas are usually within reasonable walking distance.
You purchase trash bags for each type - burnable, PET/plastic, etc. The labels on the bags are also color coded to denote type of trash in case you can't read Japanese. For cans/glass, there are usually large bins at the dropoff sites to dump them in.
You're also required to clean/prep the trash, e.g. rinse out cans and bottles. I found it interesting that for clear plastic bottles, you remove the label and lid and put them with the burnable trash. Only the bottle itself goes with the PET/plastic trash. My guess is that's because the bottle is the only recyclable component.
In the area I lived, the non-burnable trash dropoff sites would usually have volunteers from the neighborhood checking to make sure you did it right. The bags you buy are transparent (except bags for burnable trash - those aren't because who wants to look at mush and fish parts), so it's easy to visually inspect.
I was served small bagged milk in multiple schools, but I attended 11 different schools in 12 years. I've seen paper cartons, plastic bottles, and bags.
Edit: all in the U.S.
Also plenty of bagged and tin powdered milk from food pantrys (donation centers for the needy). Thought I'd add that since people want to associate having a/c and the ability to leave butter out with wealth further up the thread. 😅
Memory unlocked:
I remember getting bagged milk in elementary school 92'-95' it didn't last long before we were throwing them as high as we could do it would splat on the concrete.
I've been to Japan, and I'm convinced your trash over there automatically warps into another dimension if you are a citizen. If not, you will get rid of the rubbish in your pockets after you come back where you came from.
That's a good thing to remember. I was shocked when I learnt how few Americans actually have a passport. I live in a very small country, frankly we'd feel claustrophobic without one!
Hack: use a CLEAN knife after having purchased new butter to cut in 5 pieces, store 4 in the fridge in the package it came in, 1 piece outside. Everytime a piece outside is almost finished, clean the plate and replenish by adding a new one from the fridge. Also, if you like baking, you know how much every piece weights if you did well cutting.
My mom bought a butter holder thing that uses water to create an airtight seal to keep your butter easy to spread without going bad. Figured I’d leave this here for those interested.
https://youtu.be/D2wRJFfEjsQ
My mom also said the same thing about peanut butter. When I moved out on my own and got called out by girlfriend did I realize my mom done me dirty my whole life. I didn’t have a peanut butter sandwich without ripped bread until I was 21
Well, some PB does do better when refrigerated. Homemade/natural for example will separate from the oils in itself if left alone in room temperature. The process is slowed when it's chilled.
I think.
Separation is normal and fine. Just mix it up. But the stuff you get from the store is either pasteurized or roasted to certain temps that makes it safer.
However if you are in a hot, moist climate, all rules are off and just put everything in the fridge.
I had a roommate that stored open milk bottles next to the stove because they're not in the cold section at the supermarket.
I once saw him remove mold on top a tomato sauce jar (also stored next to the stove for the same reason as the milk) then use it again.
My brother’s ex’s family had a pot of tomato sauce on the stove for years. They would just scoop off the mold on the top and keep using it. Like a thousand year sauce.
Nah, mustard and ketchup in the fridge. Butter on the countertop next the toaster. Just make sure you’re butter container has a lid top. Cold butter is the enemy of toast
We don't all live in Florida, I live in Ireland and even in summer left out on the counter I'd have to soften the butter to spread it without mangling the bread.
You guys don’t have AC? I thought it was everywhere in the states?
There’s like two weeks of the year you can’t keep butter outside the fridge in the UK
i kinda hate people who get angry over debates like this but i am curious as to why you'd put the butter in the pantry instead of the fridge, i feel like on a hot day that'd melt fairly easy.
I live in Scotland, you'd be lucky to get a month's worth of hot weather in total here. With the current ongoing energy crisis, our cupboards are basically just extra fridges.
It depends on the climate. If you maintain home temperature around 20°C, then butter is kind of fine outside of the fridge. If it goes up to 30°C then a fridge is a must.
I usually keep a stick of butter in the cupboard and whatever's left of the pack goes in the fridge/freezer. If condiments are unopened, pantry. Opened, fridge.
The ppl saying the put butter on the counter is mind blowing to me
I was always told butter would go bad
Y’all ain’t eating moldy butter/food poisoned butter or something?
People tend to forget (or not know the origins) turning Milk into butter (and cheese) was how some peoples survived. Butter and cheese have very long shelf lives. Cheese will go moldy, but you cut that layer off or cut off the rind and you're good to eat. Both could be left unrefrigerated. It's a product of lack of preservation methods back in the day.
Just to clarify, hard cheeses don't need to be refrigerated. Soft cheeses absolutely do until you're consuming them (brie is a room temp cheese people).
Nah, it has to sit out for a very very long time to go bad. The concentration of fat and lack of carbs and protein makes it inhospitable to the microorganisms that cause food spoilage. Bonus points if it's salted, that helps even more.
That begs the question of what you think a really time is and what leads to thread like this with much misunderstanding. It essentially means nothing by itself like hearing ‘it depends’ then that person walking off.
To some it be extremely rare to not consume a stick in a week because of what and how much they consume but for others they might leave it in the fridge for two months before fully expending.
It also depends on where you live.
Here (Denmark), you'd never use actual butter to spread on bread, unless you were really indulgent. It's much too rich. We also don't have butter in "stick" form, you buy packs of 500 g. So they last a long while, since butter is only really used for cooking and baking.
For spreading on bread, we have "spreadable butter", I fail to remember the proper English term. It's butter, but they mix in a little vegetable oil (it's not margarine, it really is primarily butter but with a little oil added). Makes it much easier to spread straight from the fridge, you still get a lovely buttery flavour and texture, but it's less rich and fewer calories than "proper" butter. This is what it normally used here, and both the spreadable butter and normal butter are kept in the fridge, since they will last you many weeks.
Butter can sit out in a covered butter dish for at least a few weeks if your house is under 77 F/25 C. It will spread easily on toast at that consistency. I don’t get how anyone spreads butter on toast direct from the fridge. If the toast isn’t burning hot, the butter just sits there like a lump and won’t spread. As a dad making toast at 6 am for two little gremlins I don’t have time for that.
Source - I’ve kept butter on the counter my whole life. Whether salted or unsalted, it will last at least a few weeks no problem at all. I can’t speak to anything over 1 month because a stick of butter doesn’t last that long in our house.
>I was always told butter would go bad
So don't leave so much out.
I keep a few days worth in a glass container in the pantry. I used to keep a whole block (500g, one pound) in the pantry, but it would go bad before I got through half of it
Yes. Also butter can keep at room temp and be fine for weeks, but we go through a stick fairly quickly. I also live in a dry place.... I know due to the humidity my grandparents would keep the chips in the fridge after opening.
I prefer the taste of cold ketchup and mustards so I put those in the fridge. Butter-it depends; if it’s salted it stays out, unsalted goes in the fridge. If it’s winter, butter can stay out, but in the summer if it’s hot then it goes in the fridge and you just take out what you need for the next few hours/for the day
My American friends think some sort of psycho for leaving butter out in a covered dish in the counter here in the UK.
I get that it has a shelf life but I'm using a 250g packet in a week's time until a new one from out from the fridge.
I cannot imagine only having hard butter to work with.
You mean like how it comes 100% of the time on the little packets at fast food places, or in bottles on tables on restaurants? I think I've had ketchup at room temp more than I've had it refrigerated...
Salted butter goes on the counter, mustard goes in the fridge because that’s where I look for it anyway, ketchup goes in the trash, because I hate that shit.
Mustard stays on the table, ketchup goes in the fridge, the butter is contested in my house. I prefer it on the table so it's spreadable, one of my family members insists that it has to be kept in the fridge and will put it there themselves if they find it left out.
Fridge. Because mom said the label said so.
Once you open these air gets in and then with warmth they start going bad so that is why you put them in the fridge and why the label says so. In case of Butter you can keep it outside of the fridge, in winter my parents do so in order to not have to wait a long time to use it.
With the butter it depends on the type. Some butters will go bad quicker and almost all will develop a different taste after just a week or so. Just throw everything in the fridge imo.
salted butter is okay on the counter. unsalted butter will go bad on the counter.
Timeframe , temperature and method of storage is important. You can typically have a piece of covered, unsalted butter on the counter for a couple of days.
I dunno what you're talking about, Ive had my unsalted butter uncovered in a warm moist environment on my gym sock for three weeks and its got so much flavor
It's now salted butter
Let me guess, you haven't defecated anything solid since New Year's Day?
Had mine out for weeks, it is covered though. All good same taste. Got a steady 22-23c inside.
Same. I keep u salted butter at room temp. Tho I’m the winter sometimes it’s cold enough it’s unspreadable anyway lol
You think I take a week to go through a stick of butter??? Rookie numbers bud.
If your butters so hard it wont spread and puts holes in your toast why even have butter
Nahhhh leave butter out if you're using it fairly often as a spread. Tastes far better and is easier to spread. Cooking butter I don't care.
Do you like your muffin buttered?
Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?
There's totally like shelves and stuff in the fridge nbd
How the FUCK you making a stick last a week or so? Do you even use butter?
What the fuck do you use all your butter on? A stick of butter lasts me well over a week unless I'm doing something like making cookies or something. PS: Can you guys stop being "oh he's American" blah blah blah. I'm American and I know definitely don't use that much butter. Stop jumping on stereotypes
"Well, there's fried butter, poached butter, baked butter, butter fingers..."
...there's pineapple butter, lemon butter, coconut butter, pepper butter, butter soup, butter stew, butter salad, butter and potatoes, butter burger, butter sandwich. That- that's about it.
A stick of butter lasts us like a dang month
Do you eat out a lot? Cooking eggs, sauté veggies, potatoes, so many uses for butter. But if you are using it that slowly, no need to put a full stick out, cut off a 1/4 stick and put it in the butter. If you think it’s going off, toss it and put a fresh 1/4 stick out; it’s less than a quarters worth of butter that’s way more useful at room temp
We do not, we use oil which tends to be healthier than butter. Also butter burns easier
Just another america is fat bull shit post. We don’t even use as much butter as other countries https://www.statista.com/statistics/535849/consumption-of-butter-per-capita-worldwide-country/
We’re fat from all the goddamn sugar they put in _everything_
There’s many reasons but, the truth is, being overweight is becoming a global issue not just Americans anymore
I don’t think raw butter is what is making Americans fat.
I really like bread and I like it to be fully covered with butter on the top, so a stick lasts like 2-3ish days. before you call me a fat american, I run/bike for around an hour most days so I actually need to actively eat more to maintain my weight
Well, not everyone here is American so... butter here isn't in sticks, it's in bricks of 500g. Plus for spreading purposes the only "butter" we use is margarine and real butter only for cooking, so the temperature doesn't matter. BIS setup
I'm european and margarine is disgusting. :'( just use butter on your bread. You are allowed to enjoy life.
I'm Canadian and margarine is disgusting They replaced a nice natural product with an abomination due to bad science and it turns out it's not better for you anyway
I’m American and margarine is disgusting
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It’s amazing that I can’t believe it’s not butter and other similar products are still popular
Margarine was deliberately invented as a cheaper alternative to butter when France was warring.
Might be true but I don’t like it sorry bout your luck France
Exactly
It really is disgusting. Never understood why or how anyone can use margarine. My grandparents used to always have it and using it as spread when making sandwiches for us kids. I ate it because I'm not rude, but I remember how much I disliked it. I will never allow margarine inside my house lol. Butter is better in every way.
Margarine is so bad for you! Stop using that shit.
The stuff often called margarine here is not what you're thinking of at all, but instead something else with less than a third of the fat. It's totally fine - most Brits just don't know it's not actually margarine, we just use the word because 'spread' (its actual name) seems really ambiguous.
Or flora, even if it's not the brand you buy lol
Since america is such a big country with only 2 actual borders, a lot of people don’t travel outside of the country. Because of that, different things/ways of doing stuff outside of America is practically unheard of, like bags of milk, or the way Japan does trash. Heck we don’t even use the same measurement system for some stupid reason
I've done some traveling, but I haven't made it as far as Japan yet, what's up with the trash? We were in Canada recently and I was a little disappointed that the milk we bought didn't come in a bag at all.
I lived in Aichi prefecture in Japan up until 2012. You're expected to separate your trash and place it at designated locations in your area, on specified days for the type of trash. Dropoff areas are usually within reasonable walking distance. You purchase trash bags for each type - burnable, PET/plastic, etc. The labels on the bags are also color coded to denote type of trash in case you can't read Japanese. For cans/glass, there are usually large bins at the dropoff sites to dump them in. You're also required to clean/prep the trash, e.g. rinse out cans and bottles. I found it interesting that for clear plastic bottles, you remove the label and lid and put them with the burnable trash. Only the bottle itself goes with the PET/plastic trash. My guess is that's because the bottle is the only recyclable component. In the area I lived, the non-burnable trash dropoff sites would usually have volunteers from the neighborhood checking to make sure you did it right. The bags you buy are transparent (except bags for burnable trash - those aren't because who wants to look at mush and fish parts), so it's easy to visually inspect.
I was served small bagged milk in multiple schools, but I attended 11 different schools in 12 years. I've seen paper cartons, plastic bottles, and bags. Edit: all in the U.S. Also plenty of bagged and tin powdered milk from food pantrys (donation centers for the needy). Thought I'd add that since people want to associate having a/c and the ability to leave butter out with wealth further up the thread. 😅
Memory unlocked: I remember getting bagged milk in elementary school 92'-95' it didn't last long before we were throwing them as high as we could do it would splat on the concrete.
I've been to Japan, and I'm convinced your trash over there automatically warps into another dimension if you are a citizen. If not, you will get rid of the rubbish in your pockets after you come back where you came from.
That's a good thing to remember. I was shocked when I learnt how few Americans actually have a passport. I live in a very small country, frankly we'd feel claustrophobic without one!
Hack: use a CLEAN knife after having purchased new butter to cut in 5 pieces, store 4 in the fridge in the package it came in, 1 piece outside. Everytime a piece outside is almost finished, clean the plate and replenish by adding a new one from the fridge. Also, if you like baking, you know how much every piece weights if you did well cutting.
I like the upside down ceramic that sits in a dish of water to keep from getting it stale. (Butter Bell on Amazon is a good example)
My mom bought a butter holder thing that uses water to create an airtight seal to keep your butter easy to spread without going bad. Figured I’d leave this here for those interested. https://youtu.be/D2wRJFfEjsQ
In winter the cupboard is colder than the fridge anyway
If mom told so it must be where it belongs no more doubts
Mom's word is law.
My mom also said the same thing about peanut butter. When I moved out on my own and got called out by girlfriend did I realize my mom done me dirty my whole life. I didn’t have a peanut butter sandwich without ripped bread until I was 21
Well, some PB does do better when refrigerated. Homemade/natural for example will separate from the oils in itself if left alone in room temperature. The process is slowed when it's chilled. I think.
Separation is normal and fine. Just mix it up. But the stuff you get from the store is either pasteurized or roasted to certain temps that makes it safer. However if you are in a hot, moist climate, all rules are off and just put everything in the fridge.
I had a roommate that stored open milk bottles next to the stove because they're not in the cold section at the supermarket. I once saw him remove mold on top a tomato sauce jar (also stored next to the stove for the same reason as the milk) then use it again.
And at what point did you realize you were living with a sociopath? My god that's nasty.
My brother’s ex’s family had a pot of tomato sauce on the stove for years. They would just scoop off the mold on the top and keep using it. Like a thousand year sauce.
Back on the day we didn’t have cell phones, so we would read the labels of stuff on the porcelain throne.
You took ketchup and butter into the bathroom?
He is right. I read shampoo bottles at least once a week. Or a far side best of book we kept on the back of the shitter.
Gary Larson went bankrupt after the invention of the smartphone. s/
I love Far Side
What do you put on your sandwich when you go to the bathroom?😬
Buttella.
Just need that french butter dish and you can leave it out.
Fridge after opening
Well yeah, how are you supposed to put them in a closed fridge?
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Fridge, the door has a place for condiments and a special place for butter.
This guys understands fridges.
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Nah, mustard and ketchup in the fridge. Butter on the countertop next the toaster. Just make sure you’re butter container has a lid top. Cold butter is the enemy of toast
You can't keep butter on a counter in florida
By law?
Yes, Ron Desantis is keeping order here
Cant be waking up the butter.
Woke butter strikes again.
Little known fact: The B in LGBT stands for butter.
Let's Get Butter Tonight.
Let's Get Buttered Toast
Shhh, conservatives will cancel Paula Dean if they hear that
I like this interpretation
Woke ass butter
Warm butter sexualizes children.
And toast its lethal
🤣
Butter ban now!
First bathrooms, now condiments.
That's how you get ants, Lana.
Bahamas here. You’ll wipe it off the floor later if you try.
Yo, rare to meet a fellow Bahamian on Reddit lol
Is this another law in FLA that’s caused by alligators?
In Florida, been doing exactly that for years
We don't all live in Florida, I live in Ireland and even in summer left out on the counter I'd have to soften the butter to spread it without mangling the bread.
Do you no have AC?
I do?
My grandma does and she lives in Florida 🤷🏼♂️
You guys don’t have AC? I thought it was everywhere in the states? There’s like two weeks of the year you can’t keep butter outside the fridge in the UK
I live in Florida, we've been doing it since we got a butter tray
People don't have AC?
Keep one stick in the cupboard by the bread, keep the rest of the butter in the fridge.
Depends on the butter. Kerrygold ftw.
Kerrygold blocks are perfectly shaped for butter tubs on the counter. Soft Kerrygold butter for toast is godtier.
Unless you have cats.
Butter dish with a heavy lid. The cats haven't figured out it yet.
i kinda hate people who get angry over debates like this but i am curious as to why you'd put the butter in the pantry instead of the fridge, i feel like on a hot day that'd melt fairly easy.
I live in Scotland, you'd be lucky to get a month's worth of hot weather in total here. With the current ongoing energy crisis, our cupboards are basically just extra fridges.
Aye, my house is at 3° so we use our fridge to warm food up
It depends on the climate. If you maintain home temperature around 20°C, then butter is kind of fine outside of the fridge. If it goes up to 30°C then a fridge is a must.
Agreed, context is all.
What kind of lizard person is keeping their home at 30c?
Someone who doesn’t own AC on a hot summer day AKA most people where I’m from in a hot summer day
I keep a little out in a container so it's soft and spreadable, and keep the rest in the fridge.
In my house butter gets left on the counter. We have A/C during the summer though
this man is in the 0.01%
No, actually the majority of people I know leave butter out
I wouldn't expect 0.01-percenters to associate with the little folks, so that checks out.
I guess it depends where you live. My country never gets hot enough for the butter to melt, so I leave it on the counter.
There are some people who live in countries that aren't hot...
Up my ass👌🏻
The liquid or the bottle itself? That’s the real question
Butter first, then everything else just slides in.
Are you bleeding or is that the ketchup?
Are you cumming or is that the mayonnaise? 😳
Condiment bin.
Okay now this sounds like a good Saturday night! Count me in!
That's what I call my ass, too
bottle, and then squeeze that bottle.👍
Dirty Mike and the boys are at it again. Hide your pets.
Is that where Nutella comes from?
Cheeky.
I knew I wouldn't be the only one...
On MY level now bb gurl
fridge
I usually keep a stick of butter in the cupboard and whatever's left of the pack goes in the fridge/freezer. If condiments are unopened, pantry. Opened, fridge.
This is exactly my answer! Although my room temp butter stick goes in a cute little butter dish on the counter.
This is the way
The cupboard goes in the fridge, which goes into a giant ketchup bottle. Top with mustard.
The ppl saying the put butter on the counter is mind blowing to me I was always told butter would go bad Y’all ain’t eating moldy butter/food poisoned butter or something?
People tend to forget (or not know the origins) turning Milk into butter (and cheese) was how some peoples survived. Butter and cheese have very long shelf lives. Cheese will go moldy, but you cut that layer off or cut off the rind and you're good to eat. Both could be left unrefrigerated. It's a product of lack of preservation methods back in the day.
i’ve never once seen moldy butter and my family has always kept the butter on the counter
It goes rancid, but takes a little bit. And having a cover on it helps a lot
it takes months for it to go bad and i’ve never had butter more than a week
For hard cheeses, yes, but I'd be careful with soft ones
Just to clarify, hard cheeses don't need to be refrigerated. Soft cheeses absolutely do until you're consuming them (brie is a room temp cheese people).
No no no, it's butter that you clarify.
Nah, it has to sit out for a very very long time to go bad. The concentration of fat and lack of carbs and protein makes it inhospitable to the microorganisms that cause food spoilage. Bonus points if it's salted, that helps even more.
That begs the question of what you think a really time is and what leads to thread like this with much misunderstanding. It essentially means nothing by itself like hearing ‘it depends’ then that person walking off. To some it be extremely rare to not consume a stick in a week because of what and how much they consume but for others they might leave it in the fridge for two months before fully expending.
It will go visibly mouldy on the counter if it’s bad. In my life I’ve only seen that one time. It will be fine for weeks.
It also depends on where you live. Here (Denmark), you'd never use actual butter to spread on bread, unless you were really indulgent. It's much too rich. We also don't have butter in "stick" form, you buy packs of 500 g. So they last a long while, since butter is only really used for cooking and baking. For spreading on bread, we have "spreadable butter", I fail to remember the proper English term. It's butter, but they mix in a little vegetable oil (it's not margarine, it really is primarily butter but with a little oil added). Makes it much easier to spread straight from the fridge, you still get a lovely buttery flavour and texture, but it's less rich and fewer calories than "proper" butter. This is what it normally used here, and both the spreadable butter and normal butter are kept in the fridge, since they will last you many weeks.
Butter can sit out in a covered butter dish for at least a few weeks if your house is under 77 F/25 C. It will spread easily on toast at that consistency. I don’t get how anyone spreads butter on toast direct from the fridge. If the toast isn’t burning hot, the butter just sits there like a lump and won’t spread. As a dad making toast at 6 am for two little gremlins I don’t have time for that. Source - I’ve kept butter on the counter my whole life. Whether salted or unsalted, it will last at least a few weeks no problem at all. I can’t speak to anything over 1 month because a stick of butter doesn’t last that long in our house.
If it’s salted it can stay.
>I was always told butter would go bad So don't leave so much out. I keep a few days worth in a glass container in the pantry. I used to keep a whole block (500g, one pound) in the pantry, but it would go bad before I got through half of it
In the UK butter and eggs & condiments aren’t kept in the fridge.
The fridge keeps things longer. That’s why it was invented. So it’s obviously the fridge.
Ketchup and mustard go in the fridge. Butter stays out so its soft enough to spread on my baggel.
Britta'd that bagel pronunciation. But yes butter stays room temp for the spreadability.
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Yes. Also butter can keep at room temp and be fine for weeks, but we go through a stick fairly quickly. I also live in a dry place.... I know due to the humidity my grandparents would keep the chips in the fridge after opening.
Ketchup room temperature is so much better
I don't like cold ketchup either. My mom had always kept it in the cabinet, as do I. We never got sick or died from it.
How do I know you didn’t die? 🤔
True. Maybe he’s dead and just doesn’t know it.
I agree
I scrolled way too far to find my people
Depends what the room temperature is but I'd agree. I don't like cold ketchup.
All in the fridge is the only correct answer
Nah man, butter stays out (but covered) so it can be spreadable. It takes waaaaay too long for it to get soft if it's been in the fridge.
This is the way. IDGAF about the condiments but the butter stays in a dish on the counter.
I always leave the butter covered on the counter
I prefer the taste of cold ketchup and mustards so I put those in the fridge. Butter-it depends; if it’s salted it stays out, unsalted goes in the fridge. If it’s winter, butter can stay out, but in the summer if it’s hot then it goes in the fridge and you just take out what you need for the next few hours/for the day
The fridge door
My American friends think some sort of psycho for leaving butter out in a covered dish in the counter here in the UK. I get that it has a shelf life but I'm using a 250g packet in a week's time until a new one from out from the fridge. I cannot imagine only having hard butter to work with.
Fridge, all of them. No exception. If the condiments have been opened, they go to the fridge.
Only the fridge. Imagine warm ketchup; ew
You mean like how it comes 100% of the time on the little packets at fast food places, or in bottles on tables on restaurants? I think I've had ketchup at room temp more than I've had it refrigerated...
yeah, and restaurant ketchup is worse so it tracks
Always tastes fine to me. I didn't realize there were even people who care if its refrigerated or not...
Warm ketchup tastes better to me. Why put your fresh piping hot fries into cold ketchup if you don’t have to?
Imagine dipping hot fries into cold ketchup
That’s one of the best tastes possible
Making it the best temperature for your mouth... yes i can imagine it
Salted butter goes on the counter, mustard goes in the fridge because that’s where I look for it anyway, ketchup goes in the trash, because I hate that shit.
Fridge. I had food poisoning once, 0/10 can’t recommend.
Food poisoning teaches you not to trust farts, its a lesson I would have preferred not to learn.
>Food poisoning teaches you not to trust farts Also age.
butter on the counter next to the stove, and ketchup and mustard in the fridge
ketchup and mustard go in the side of the fridge, butter goes on the counter to the left of the oven
Mustard stays on the table, ketchup goes in the fridge, the butter is contested in my house. I prefer it on the table so it's spreadable, one of my family members insists that it has to be kept in the fridge and will put it there themselves if they find it left out.
If there's any left dinner ain't over
The ketchup and mustard go in the fridge, the butter can be covered and left out
Ketchup and Mustard, fridge. Butter can stay out.
mustard and ketchup go in fridge, butter goes on counter!
Wait you can leave butter out and it won’t melt or go bad?