Butter

[Anonymous No.5421535]

Do you leave your butter out?

My roommate was bitching today about his concerns that I never put my butter dish in the fridge.
I keep the sticks that I'm not using in the fridge, but once I put one in the butter dish, it stays on the kitchen counter.

Is this bad, or is he just being paranoid and nosey?

[Anonymous No.5421543]

>>5421535
I had to actually think about it
Growing up, we always had a butter dish out, or we would put it away in the cupboard with the plates and bowls.
It never killed me.

[Anonymous No.5421589]

I keep mine in a tupperware container on the counter. Once, I left it out too long and it acquired a smell. I tried it anyways and it was delicious.

[Anonymous No.5421591]

enjoy your listeria

[Anonymous No.5421593]

>>5421535
No, I keep mine in the fridge. I don't use it for spreading, so it's not a terribly big deal. Nothing wrong with leaving it at room temp though.

[Anonymous No.5421594]

You don't actually need to refrigerate mayonnaise either. I grew up in Canada in the country and we had a small fridge, mom just kept it in the cupboard.

The only thing is you need to make sure other shit doesn't get mixed in it.

[Anonymous No.5421610]

>>5421594
Maybe not store bought, but you most definitely need to keep homemade in the fridge

[Anonymous No.5421611]

>>5421535
I keep a pound of butter on the counter in a butter dish with a lid. Never had a problem.

[Anonymous No.5421616]

people had butter long before they had refrigeration

get a butter bell if you care

[Anonymous No.5421643]

Butter is absolutely fine to be left out unless it's so hot it's going to melt into a puddle. The cover is pretty much just there to keep flies/dirt off it.

I put mine into the fridge at night because I don't use much butter and it extends it even more.

[Anonymous No.5421661]

>>5421535
It's your butter, why do care what some roommate has to say about it? Seriously do what you want with it. Personally I keep mine in the fridge because I don't use it very often and it's convenient in there. If I had a roommate, I wouldn't care all that much about his or her opinion on the matter.

[Anonymous No.5421672]

Wait, why is this even a question?

What could possibly happen to butter if you leave it out? Does it even go off at all? Or just melt.

I cut off some butter and leave it in a butterdish for sandwiches from time to time. It's usually used within a day or two, I assumed it would be fine for a week or more. Does butter even go off at all?

[Anonymous No.5421679]

>>5421672
>. Does butter even go off at all?
Yes, it does. Usually takes a while though, I haven't had butter go wrong ever.

[Anonymous No.5421689]

>>5421535
>Do you leave your butter out?

Yes. It takes quite a while for a stick of butter to go bad--I use it up well before it spoils.

[Anonymous No.5421703]

Literally a month+ if you're talking salted butter. You'll know because it'll taste off. We've become completely retarded when it comes to food safety paranoia. Eggs don't need refrigeration either, if they're fresh and unwashed they're fine for a month+ too.

[Anonymous No.5421808]

>>5421672
Butter goes rancid, but if you keep it away from oxygen, which would happen if you use a butter bell, then it's fine.

[Anonymous No.5422260]

>>5421808

I've been tempted to order one from Lehman's Amish Store:

https://www.lehmans.com/p-1651-marble-butter-crock.aspx

[Anonymous No.5422266]

people who keep all their butter in the fridge are monsters

[Anonymous No.5422447]

>>5421610
Oh hell yes. I made some homemade butter once from a wimp.com video. Even in the fridge, it went rancid after like a week...

[Anonymous No.5422454]

>>5422260
Sounds like a gay waste of money.

Just get a rubbermaid, I've had mine for over 20 years.

[Anonymous No.5422456]

>>5421661
Personally, I don't give a shit about what he says mostly; but he is a nurse, and this is like the 3rd time he's mentioned it.

He only uses "healthy" margarine, I guess it makes him feel superior or something...

[Anonymous No.5422462]

>>5421535
clarify something.
what is this "butter dish"?
why would you keep butter on counter?
also trollthread

[Anonymous No.5422567]

>>5422462
>what is this "butter dish"?

A covered dish you keep butter in.

>why would you keep butter on counter?

Because butter does not need to be refrigerated and is hard to spread if you do refrigerate it.

People just get into the habit of putting everything in the fridge.

You don't need to put eggs in the fridge either. (Euro egg's only, American egg's need to be refrigerated because they remove the natural protective cuticle)

[Anonymous No.5422575]

>>5421616
There was polio, what's your point?
Clearly this has nothing to with butter but then neither does your assertion.

[Anonymous No.5422581]

>>5422456
He sounds like a complete homo trying to get you to suck his dick. Just ignore him and get your own place. Seriously.

I used to live in Chelsea NYC, that's fagland, and a friend in high school lived on Christopher street, even worse. I can detect these weirdos from a mile or two off.

[Anonymous No.5422635]

>>5422454

I know someone who is gay. I'll ask him if he would waste money on it.

I often go a week at a time without using any butter at all. A package of butter sometimes lasts longer than the expiration date. If a butter crock/butter bell can help make it last longer while keeping it out and ready to spread, then it will pay for itself over time.

And there are less expensive versions available.

[Anonymous No.5422689]

>>5421616
>people had butter long before they had refrigeration
wise, never thought of it that way, and I live in a farming area. they used to keep milk in the spring house

[Anonymous No.5422708]

>>5421535
I don't do it but my girlfriend does. I don't because I would regularly be buttering my toast with easily spreadable delicious butter but I have no problem with it if someone else did it.

[Anonymous No.5422714]

>>5422456
Wow nurses are idiots these days.

[Anonymous No.5422717]

>>5422462
Have you ever tried to spread butter you just took out of the fridge?

[Anonymous No.5422723]

>>5422714
Have you been to a medical center? Half of them are fat as fatasses.

[Anonymous No.5422726]

>>5422723
I'm studying to be a radiology tech so I'll be working in a medical setting soon but I would hope they wouldn't be this stupid when it came to fucking health of all things.

[Anonymous No.5422731]

>>5422714

I work at a hospital and just about every nurse I know is fucking insane

[Anonymous No.5422739]

Salted butter is fine, I know, but what of unsalted?

I've got a knob of Kerry Gold in the icebox and am in need of clarification on this matter.

[Anonymous No.5422741]

>>5422689
yea that's a great reason. people ate meat way before fridges too so I guess we shouldn't keep that in the fridge.

[Anonymous No.5422759]

>>5422731
Nursing seems to have become one of those fallback jobs for fat lazy people who are too stupid for a better job.
It's the new Mcdonalds

[Anonymous No.5422772]

>>5422581
He has enough faults that I'm trying to find my own place.

He has yellow fever; constantly skyping with Filipino girls half his age. He tried to get one shipped over here to live with him right after I moved in. Thank god that didn't pan out...

[Anonymous No.5422774]

>>5422741
If it's salted, smoked, cured, pickled, dry aged in a controlled room, or dehydrated then it can be kept unrefrigerated for a long time.

can you into preservation nigger?

[Anonymous No.5422786]

>>5422774
I said it was a dumb statement. people didn't have a lot of things and had to just do without, sayin they never had this in the old days so we don't need to do this is just backwards.

[Anonymous No.5422788]

>>5421535
It depends OP, where do you live?

[Anonymous No.5422802]

>>5422786
But you don't have to refrigerate butter.

[Anonymous No.5422806]

>>5422759
>Nursing seems to have become one of those fallback jobs for fat lazy people who are too stupid for a better job.

It pays well.

It's one of the few middle class careers left which offers relative safety and a good income. There is a flood of people going into nursing these days.

[Anonymous No.5422808]

>>5422802
>But you don't have to refrigerate butter.

Yes you do you dumb fuck, butter is dairy and dairy HAS to be refrigerated.

[Anonymous No.5422814]

>>5422808
heh

[Anonymous No.5422893]

>>5421535
we have this thing that you put the butter in, then turn it upside down into water, and it keeps the butter fresh and room temp. but before that i kept a stick out for years without any known issue.

[Anonymous No.5422910]

I don't but you can. It's easy enough to plan ahead and bring it to room temp. I was just raise that way even though I learned later that it's fine.

[Anonymous No.5423131]

>2014
>not only renting with people who are in your camp about butter refrigeration.

[Anonymous No.5423804]

>>5423131
I'm such a fool

[Anonymous No.5423812]

>>5421703
American eggs aren't unwashed.

[Anonymous No.5423813]

>>5421535
I once ate a whole stick of butter when I was 4

[Anonymous No.5423816]

>>5422808
Since butter is almost pure fat, it doesn't spoil as quickly as milk. You can leave butter out for a while before it spoils. Just leave enough out so that you'll use it all within a week or so if you're that worried.

Also, ghee can last for months without being refrigerated.

[Anonymous No.5423821]

>>5422774
>If it's salted, smoked, cured, pickled, dry aged in a controlled room, or dehydrated then it can be kept unrefrigerated for a long time.

People don't really normally eat meat like that though.

[Anonymous No.5423836]

>>5423816
butter can last weeks covered on a counter without problem.

[Anonymous No.5423869]

>>5423821
Just stop.
Your argument is running in circles.

[Anonymous No.5423873]

>>5423813
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owEjVxGEEDE

[Anonymous No.5423876]

>>5423869
>your

not the same person

[Anonymous No.5423887]

>>5423876
>Implying I give a shit who started it

[Anonymous No.5423915]

Of course I put it in the fridge. I'm not a degenerate.

[Anonymous No.5424336]

Can we change this to a Butter General?

Butter is fucking delicious man. I want to fuck a stick of butter.

[Anonymous No.5425946]

>>5421535
> glass lid
The point of a lid on a butter dish is to keep light out.

[Anonymous No.5425979]

>>5421535

yes but i put it in the fridge if it's hot as the butter seperates at higher temperatures

[Anonymous No.5425986]

>>5423887
Yeah but the point is it isn't one person making an argument against you, thus eliminating the validity of that other post of yours, and bringing upon a majority against you.

I have no idea what you guys are talking about since I'm replying to the thread from the line and not within the thread.

You give a fuck.

[Anonymous No.5426043]

>>5421535

>Do you leave your butter out?
If by out you mean do I keep my cow ghee in the cabinet where it belongs, then yes

[Anonymous No.5426086]

>>5426043
buying clarified butter

[Anonymous No.5426112]

>>5426086
Right? Fuck convenience. Gotta keep the cooking rep strong for the internet!

[Anonymous No.5426131]

>>5426112
It doesn't take any time to make. Just put it on low, forget about it for a bit, then come back, scoop off the solids, and put in a tupperware through cheesecloth/single ply paper towel.

[Anonymous No.5426133]

>>5426131
You don't seem to understand what the word convenience means.

[Anonymous No.5426136]

>>5422454
you can get a butterbell for $10 cheapskate. and it is THE ONLY way to store butter at room temp without it going rancid (if you can't tell the difference between fresh and rancid butter then you've been eating rancid butter for too long)

[Anonymous No.5426147]

>>5426136
The fuck are you talking about? That rubbermaid is air tight AND the shape of a stick of butter, making the transfer less retarded.

[Anonymous No.5426161]

>>5421535
>Is this bad, or is he just being paranoid and nosey?
It's okay for a week, if tightly sealed and salted. A little less than a week if unsalted, depending on your heat/humidity. If it's a higher fat butter (most of mine is) it just becomes too liquidy at room temperature. I don't have a butterbell, just a covered stick container.

If you simply must have spreadable butter on demand, what I do is have two butters, the stick in the fridge, and the "whipped" butter that comes in a plastic or waxed container. I can chip off or scrape off curls of that which melts instantly on toast. It tastes sweeter/fresher than sticks too, imho.

[Anonymous No.5426166]

>>5421661
This. Just tell him he can use his butter, and you use yours. Mention that you do other nasty things too, like kiss people, have oral sex, eat rare steaks, etc etc. Thank him for caring, but that sometimes you roll the dice. If you want to be all food sciencey on him, there are flavor compounds only delicious at room temperature (but if you were having it on hot toast, you'd get that anyway). We already know he has shit epicure tastebuds anyway, he uses fake butter for being healthier. That makes foodies gag. LOL, right?

[Anonymous No.5426359]

>>5422456
>margarine
>healthy
And he's a nurse? What an asshat

[Anonymous No.5426740]

>>5426166
Foodie, he is not.
98% of what he eats is either microwaved, or pre-made at the store. He practically lives off of roast chicken from the grocery store.
He has absolutely zero fucking sense when it comes to cooking. He can't even marinate meat; he just dumps shitty dollar store marinade on whatever he's cooking, after he's already put it on his George Foreman grill. The whole house reeks of burnt marinade.
He can't cook anything on the stove. Every time I have seen him use the stove, he cooks on the highest setting the burner will go to, and just goes until everything is burnt black. Then he makes a little joke about 'good thing he likes his food charred'. I honestly believe he has no taste buds left...

[Anonymous No.5426747]

I don't use butter. It's empty calories and unethical. I make nut butters (with no additives) in a Galaxy-class or Sovereign-class blender (I have a Sovereign-class at home, but use Galaxy-class blenders when visiting other people.). I currently have pecan butter. I'm going to make walnut next.

[Anonymous No.5426765]

>>5426747
I make my nut butter sitting in front of the computer.

[Anonymous No.5426876]

>>5421535
It's bad.
If I were your roommate I'd throw the butter in the trash after a day that you'd left it unrefrigerated.

[Anonymous No.5427101]

>>5426747
>I don't use butter. It's empty calories and unethical.

Anyone who thinks that using butter is unethical is nothing more than someone walking around looking to be offended.

[Anonymous No.5427157]

>>5422447
Sounds like you didn't drain off all of the buttermilk. I make butter every other week or so and it stays fresh for a very long time.
Pic related (buttermilk, creme fraish, butter, ghee)

[Anonymous No.5427922]

>>5427157
I rinsed it out a couple of times, but I'm pretty sure you're right.