So, why do we keep our butter inside the fridge and keep it hard as a rock and let it break up our bread every time we try and spread it?

Meanwhile, theirs was soft as butter and spread easily.

Outside the US, eggs are not refridgerated. As for the butter, I do not know.

We do not keep the butter we are using in the fridge. It is used fast enough it does not spoil. Hard butter is not very easy to work with.

We do keep eggs in the fridge, since we do not use them as fast. I can't think of a good reason not to keep them in the fridge, as they will last longer.

Dan

In Mexico eggs in the stores are not stored in the fridge. It is not necessary.. but I keep them in the fridge to keep them safe..

we never put the stick of butter we are using in the fridge. Only the unopened ones.

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how long have you keep it out (covered of course)?

Also, is it salted or unsalted butter?

Wonder how the Amish do it.

In the 1950s, I would visit relatives who had a 50 farm way out in the country. They had no electricity. They were really isolated. As they were elderly at the time of my visits, the farmland was unused. They had a few cows, several chicken, a few goats, and I can't remember what else. I do remember that they would store butter in the creek all year. I'm not sure what they wrapped it in. They would churn butter every few weeks, so I don't know why they would need to store any. They also had a root cellar. I'm pretty sure that I could not live like that. But they were in their 70s at the time and enjoyed their life.

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I have never seen butter spoil, so it must last a long time unrefrigerated.

I even remember seeing an old house in where the people left in a hurry and left butter, in a dish, on the table.

40 years later, when we went in the house, the butter was shriveled up, but still recognizable. It never molded in all that time.

I often wondered why they had to leave so quickly.

Dan

Butter does go rancid though, and acquires a very sour "off" taste after enough time, I suspect that had you tasted that 40 year old butter, it would have been pretty awful!!

Salted butter would keep longer, as it's preserved, so to speak -

In Europe cheese doesn't go in the fridge either, and we had nice baskets to keep the eggs on the counter or hanging in a corner somewhere

When I was in Mexico all the eggs were in the aisles.

At the farmer's market a gal sells some eggs "dirty" with gunk on them...feathers and yuck. She says these eggs have never been washed so they don't need to be refrigerated. Once they're washed the outer protective coating is removed and the egg goes bad more quickly.

Oddly, I was buying some eggs from an Amish farm and they were lovely clean but I could leave them unrefrigerated. I don't know how they did it.

In India I would buy milk in a cartoon that was unrefrigerated. After about five day it would be to nasty to drink.

I've had mold on my organic butter kept in the fridge.

I've heard that butter is salted to prevent rancidity but that sometimes it's salted to hide rancidity. I always buy unsalted butter.