how is butter solid without being frozen?

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At room temperature, butter melts and becomes a liquid. But when refrigerated, it’s solid but not quite frozen. Why does this happen to butter and no other dairy products?

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> It’s solid but not quite frozen

The fat in the butter is in fact frozen. But the water in it is not. And as others have said what separates butter from cream or milk is the relative proportion of fat to water.

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