• pacoboyd@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Stick always in the butter dish for room temp and spreadable. Also for frying up stuff. Rest of it, in the fridge.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I’ve been doing this since CoOViD. Previously I never used butter because it’s too hard from the fridge and “everyone knows” you need to refrigerate it.

        However I started doing a lot more cooking, so it’s always been finished before it goes bad:

        • FDA recommendation 3 days on counter
        • “rule of thumb” 1 week on counter
        • some streamers claim 2 weeks

        I’m not even sure what “going bad” means for butter. I have seen it change color so the outside is darker than inside, and threw it out. But ive never noticed an off taste or smell.

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
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      5 months ago

      I live in a hot enough climate I can’t do it all year, but my butter is out except for summer. I keep it in a container that I can pull a vacuum on since a lot of spoliage is basically oxidation.