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Re:Margarine by werdnapk on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:33AM (#28852597)
I prefer butter, but I leave it in the fridge and if I want to spread something on my bread in a snap without thawing the butter, I use margarine instead. It's just another spread variant. I don't understand the margarine hate.
Re:Margarine by eMSF on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:24AM (#28861110)
I use a cheese slicer for cold butter :-)

Unrelated to this, there's something weird going on on with the comment dates in this thread – or at least something I haven't noticed before. On some pages (for example, the top level thread) it says that your comment is an hour old, but if I click "reply", on that page it says 15 hours instead.

Re:Margarine by parkersweb on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:32AM (#28861495)
Or you could get a japanese butter knife!

https://food52.com/shop/products/5105-japanese-butter-knife

Re:Margarine by Doxin on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:37AM (#28861182)
A butter bell is a great way to store butter at room temperature. Doesn't really seem to make it last any less than in a fridge either.
Re:Margarine by loeg on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:26AM (#28861468)
We just leave it out on a plate. It keeps at room temperature as long as you go through it in a couple weeks.
Re:Margarine by Doxin on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:06AM (#28861652)
Depends on the local climate I imagine. Butter doesn't tend to spoil in catastrophic ways in any case, so it's fairly safe to experiment. As long as it looks, smells, and tastes fine, it's fine.
Re:Margarine by loeg on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:23PM (#28867993)
Yeah, we're at 47.6° N.
Re:Margarine by nextweek2 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:06PM (#28856086)
You can leave butter out in an air tight container.

Just get the right kind.

Re:Margarine by pacaro on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:10AM (#28861025)
A lot of this also depends on what "room-temperature" is in your environment.

My parents house has a pantry which is on the northern wall of the house and is ventilated, for most of the year the temperature in there is significantly lower than the rest of the house, butter and many cheeses do better in the pantry than the fridge. If there's a significant heatwave they need to be moved to the fridge.

By comparison, my apartment (constructed 150 years later) has an open plan with the kitchen almost in the middle of the floorplan. There's nowhere reasonable to store butter other than the fridge