These are actually great for keeping room temp spreadable butter. Just remember to change water and wash the bottom and top well before reuse.
How often do you change it? My mom has one of these and I think it’s cool but never really thought about it.
Change water every few days. Clean it well. after every stick you go through
I have a recurring task called “rotate butter” scheduled once a month which seems about right to me.
How does one access the butter?
You lift up the lid/bell.
Ooohhh I see. What a weird and very French contraption.
and the butter come with the lid, or stay in the water?
You put the butter in the bell part. The butter sticks. You then put some water in the crock and put the bell in the crock. The bell/butter displaces some water and it prevents air from getting to the butter.
Imo it’s silly; there’s no real issue just leaving butter in a dish at room temp.
Leaving butter out is definitely not a safe practice. Modern butter is not shelf stable and needs to be stored in the refrigerator.
Old style butter, which had a large amount of salt as a preservative, was safe to leave out for long periods of time, but this is no longer true.
Safe but the flavour can turn rancid. You just dunked on yourself lol.
Not really. They were replying to it being unsafe. Sure, they did mention in the comment before that about leaving it in a dish, but a dish that covers butter without the water works too, just not as well as the water one, but better than out in the open. In my experience even out in the open isn’t bad in a few days like it says, closer to 1-2 weeks, especially if salted.
Asking the important questions.
I don’t think I like this.
I don’t know why people in the comments hate these. I use one and never had any issues with it. No spoiled butter either. Just replace the water regularly
They aren’t really necessary; a butter dish works fine if you’re using butter regularly. You can also just plop the stick in the dish, while with a bell you have to manually pack it in there (I assume? Never used one personally)
Also the main reason is probably just unfamiliarity
Butter’s not supposed to taste like soap??
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