Butter how do you store it?

[SmokingPat]

OT: My mom kept a tin of bacon fat on the stove. Had a sieve on top to trap the bacon crumbs. She would use some grease, she would add some grease.
But nowadays? I wouldn't leave bacon grease on the counter!

[coupster]

Maybe not on the counter, but definitely in the fridge. So much better for pan frying. How could anybody NOT reuse bacon fat??

[Parkin]

My GMa did the same thing. I wouldn't do it now, but I never got sick eating her cooking.

[Attjack]

Life is too short for torn bread. Both. Most of the butter is in the fridge but I always keep at least a stick out so it's soft enough to spread. My girlfriend likes to bake and so sometimes she has an entire box out.

[N227GB]

A couple of years ago I started noticing tiny bugs or ants of some kind accumulating in the lid of ghee I kept in the cupboard, no matter how tight the lid was. So off to the fridge. Not a big deal I have more room in the fridge than anywhere else in the kitchen.

[Parkin]

The way we burn through butter in my house of four, we always keep a stick on the counter in a Polish Butter Dish...the arguments always arise when somebody doesn't refill it after they kill it! My wife came from a butter in the fridge family...it took a while to convert her to the darkside.

[JGo37]

I freeze butter until I pull a stick, and leave it out on the counter in a simple butter dish. The exception is Irish butter, which I keep in the fridge because it's not used as fast.

But where do you keep your eggs?

[RonB]

Not all in one basket...

[Cheef]

Where do you keep your eggs?!!!
That would be an AWESOME question to start another post!
CONTROVERSIAL in my house at least.
I know I am right but my wife aways wins!

[ComfortablyNumb]

That depends. If eggs are washed, they must be kept refrigerated. Once they are refrigerated, they must be kept refrigerated. If the eggs are unwashed and unrefrigerated they can be kept at room temperature for a fortnight, but will keep longer if refrigerated. However, it is a non issue for me. I get mine from the coop to the pan daily.

[crazytown3]

We buy a big pack of butter at Costco, and it goes in the freezer. 1 pack goes into the fridge, and I pull a stick at a time out from there and keep it on a dish in the kitchen. I keep it in cupboard though, otherwise the cat finds it and licks it.

[ComfortablyNumb]

My cats don't know human food, nor have they ever jumped on a counter. But when we took in my father (he had Alzheimer's) his cat also came to live with us. He had no qualms about jumping up on the counter and licking the butter dish. Had to keep the cover on whilst he was around.

[crazytown3]

To qualify my next statement: I LOVE all animals, big and small.

If my wife and son weren't "cat people", I may have chosen a different animal.

[Huskee]

There's always a stick left out in a covered butter dish. Cold butter is useless to me unless you're making cookies.

[dtresca]

I store in the fridge, but always have a stick in a butter dish on the counter for everyday use.

[Spinaker]

I have a huge tub go Ghee that I keep in the fridge. It melts quick when I throw it in the cast iron. That works fine for me.

[Potkettleblack]

In a butter dish on the counter. Bulk storage in the fridge and freezer, depending on how much bulk. 1LB in the fridge, the rest in the freezer. Mix of Kerrygold (my choice) and LandOLakes or Signature (wife's... she doesn't like cutting the Kerry Gold to fit the butter dish). We currently have a roll of Amish style butter working, that I cut a butter dish sized slice off and put on the dish. Clear glass dish.

I always buy salted. I've read some cookbooks that recommend using unsalted, because you can adjust the salt up. I just use the salted, taste and salt if necessary. 2% of the butter isn't gonna oversalt anything.

https://qz.com/quartzy/1417175/why-d...ir-butter-out/

[Huskee]

We like Kerrygold too. I've seen it (or was it Greenfields?) in regular sized sticks now which is handy.