How is it that every dairy product goes bad outside fridge but butter is meant to be stored in butter dish outside fridge?
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Follow up question. How do I know butter has gone bad? My family would keep butter in a butter dish for maybe a couple weeks at a time and I don’t remember any significant difference
Follow up question. How do I know butter has gone bad? My family would keep butter in a butter dish for maybe a couple weeks at a time and I don’t remember any significant difference
USDA says you can store it at room temp safely, but recommend not going past 2 days. I know people who use the water dishes, and keep their butter out all the time. I think it’s more common in cooler climates (I grew up where it is very hot…and butter at room temp may be almost liquid).
The why? Man…I wish I could say. I also don’t understand why some baked goods are just fine for days or weeks unrefrigerated and in the open. You would think cookies, with eggs, oil, butter, flour, lots of moisture… would be bacterias dream at room temp.
USDA says you can store it at room temp safely, but recommend not going past 2 days. I know people who use the water dishes, and keep their butter out all the time. I think it’s more common in cooler climates (I grew up where it is very hot…and butter at room temp may be almost liquid).
The why? Man…I wish I could say. I also don’t understand why some baked goods are just fine for days or weeks unrefrigerated and in the open. You would think cookies, with eggs, oil, butter, flour, lots of moisture… would be bacterias dream at room temp.
In a regular butter dish, the butter will spoil unless used within a relatively short time. The conditions of your home, like temperature and humidity, will effect this time greatly, allowing butter left at room temperature to keep up to a couple weeks.
There are also butter bells, which essentially keep the butter in an airlock to prevent bacteria from accumulating and multiplying. The butter is placed into the bell, and then an accompanying container has water which the bell is placed into, open end down. The air in the bell keeps the butter from touching the water, and the water prevents additional air from entering. The water is replaced periodically; the bell is washed before adding new butter. Butter stays room temperature and spreadable, and keeps for much longer than in a regular dish.
Butter is mostly fat content with little water so it isn’t a friendly environment for bacterial growth. Salted butter has even less water so that’s why people keep their salted butter out in a butter dish instead of the fridge. Contrary what others has said it does not go rancid. Lived in farm country geowing up and the butter we kept on the counter tasted the same as the fresh butter from the dairy farm.
Butter is mostly fat content with little water so it isn’t a friendly environment for bacterial growth. Salted butter has even less water so that’s why people keep their salted butter out in a butter dish instead of the fridge. Contrary what others has said it does not go rancid. Lived in farm country geowing up and the butter we kept on the counter tasted the same as the fresh butter from the dairy farm.
Butter is mostly fat content with little water so it isn’t a friendly environment for bacterial growth. Salted butter has even less water so that’s why people keep their salted butter out in a butter dish instead of the fridge. Contrary what others has said it does not go rancid. Lived in farm country geowing up and the butter we kept on the counter tasted the same as the fresh butter from the dairy farm.
unsalted butter lasts only a day or two, and wiill melt rapidly at room temperature. SALTED butter will last a week or more kept covered. First hand experience. I switched to a low sodium diet and unsalted butter will only last in the fridge. I put a stick in a butter dish, as usual, and went to work. When I got home, there was a buttery, oily mess to clean up.
unsalted butter lasts only a day or two, and wiill melt rapidly at room temperature. SALTED butter will last a week or more kept covered. First hand experience. I switched to a low sodium diet and unsalted butter will only last in the fridge. I put a stick in a butter dish, as usual, and went to work. When I got home, there was a buttery, oily mess to clean up.
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