This is a very exciting moment in my life. I may never buy margarine again.
Now pray that my H stops asking me every single day: "Do you think the butter is still good? Being outside the fridge and all? How long does it stay? Maybe it went bad?"
because he is kinda cute and fun to have around and it would be a shame if I had to stab him to death with a butter knife. And messy.
i only have real butter in my house. this annoys the HELL out of my ILs and my parents. my ILs because they're obsessed with dieting. my parents because my mom is INSANE and prefers margarine (which, no. ew.) and my dad because he's incapable of remembering to take the butter out of the fridge a little bit before you want to use it and then is all "THIS WON'T SPREAD." it's not that hard! i do it ALL THE TIME.
i only have real butter in my house. this annoys the HELL out of my ILs and my parents. my ILs because they're obsessed with dieting. my parents because my mom is INSANE and prefers margarine (which, no. ew.) and my dad because he's incapable of remembering to take the butter out of the fridge a little bit before you want to use it and then is all "THIS WON'T SPREAD." it's not that hard! i do it ALL THE TIME.
anyway, congrats on the butter dish.
This reminds me of my college roommates. Two of them used to use my real butter all the damn time for whatever and then I would ask them to get more (nicely). They would then buy country crock because it is the same but cheaper. NO IT IS NOT!!!!!!!!! It was then that I declared butter no longer community property and wrote my name on it. So I became that roommate over butter.
Actually, they used to replace my whole milk with skim and I would not let them use that either.
It has now occurred to me that they are probably posting about their annoying roommate on some other message board somewhere.
I've always left buttor out (in a covered dish). DH is all happy now because it's summer so it's soft (we keep the A/C on at 26C). I haven't eaten margarine since I moved out of my Mom's place.
We really don't use much butter, but we go through 1L bottles of EVOO very fast.
I tried to start keeping the butter out. Then H lost his shit and started googling and emailing me a bunch of news and FDA articles so I gave up. It wasn't a battle worth fighting for.
i only have real butter in my house. this annoys the HELL out of my ILs and my parents. my ILs because they're obsessed with dieting. my parents because my mom is INSANE and prefers margarine (which, no. ew.) and my dad because he's incapable of remembering to take the butter out of the fridge a little bit before you want to use it and then is all "THIS WON'T SPREAD." it's not that hard! i do it ALL THE TIME.
anyway, congrats on the butter dish.
Processed chemicals are SOOO much better than natural fat.
I've been trying to get H on board with using the butter keeper, but he's convinced the butter is going to spoil and kill him. I think I'm going to just start using it myself, and he can keep his massive tub of Country Crock.
This is a very exciting moment in my life. I may never buy margarine again. Now pray that my H stops asking me every single day: "Do you think the butter is still good? Being outside the fridge and all? How long does it stay? Maybe it went bad?"
because he is kinda cute and fun to have around and it would be a shame if I had to stab him to death with a butter knife. And messy.
Post by kellykapowski on Jun 4, 2013 16:58:10 GMT -5
I've always left my butter in a covered butter dish on the counter. I've only ever had it go rancid once and you can tell immediately. It tastes and smells sour. But it's not deadly. And even if it was, I'd prefer to die a soft butter death than eat margarine.
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.” - Natalie Goldberg
We always kept butter out and in a butter dish growing up. I have a butter dish but I don't use it, the humidity of my house spoils things like bread and butter VERY fast.
And the dog LOVES butter, she'll do anything to try to eat it so it's easier to keep it in the fridge.