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[Canadian John]

We have a French butter keeper. It uses water for as an airlock to keep the butter fresh on the counter at room temps. Unfortunately, we can't use it now because our Lab Retriever eats anything and jump up on our counters.
If you've never seen one, check it out.

That reminds me of our wonderful Newfoundland, Lady.  My mother had just put a 1LB brick of butter on a butter dish that was placed in the middle of the kitchen table. I don't remember all the details,

as it was over 60 years ago.

We had left the room, came back and found the butter dish exactly where my mother had put it. Just the dish, no butter. The dish was clean as a whistle and nothing in the surrounding area had been

disturbed. As I recall, we had left the room for a very short time.. Lady acted normal as if nothing had happened.


 

[Brushpopper]

We have a French butter keeper. It uses water for as an airlock to keep the butter fresh on the counter at room temps. Unfortunately, we can't use it now because our Lab Retriever eats anything and jump up on our counters.
If you've never seen one, check it out.

We tried one of these and quit using it.  The butter keeper, not the Lab.  It made the butter get moldy for some reason.  I guess all of the moisture for the airlock along with our high humidity causes it.  The humidity is 84% right now.  We may have been doing something wrong with it but I don't know what.  Luckily I wasn't in charge of that department.

[pmillen]

We tried one of these and quit using it.  The butter keeper, not the Lab.  It made the butter get moldy for some reason.  I guess all of the moisture for the airlock along with our high humidity causes it.  The humidity is 84% right now.  We may have been doing something wrong with it but I don't know what.  Luckily I wasn't in charge of that department.

I'm guessing that you were using unsalted butter.  Butter is salted to create an environment incapable of supporting bacteria.  Make sure that it's salted butter if you're going to let it sit out.

[Brushpopper]

We buy salted butter.  At least I do.  I now wonder if it was some unsalted she had bought.  Might be there was mold on the dish.  All I can remember is we quit using it due to mold.  I'll ask my wife when she gets home because she will remember what it was.  We need to try it again looks like.

[bregent]

You can add a pinch of salt to the water if you are using unsalted butter to help prevent mold.

[Brushpopper]

You can add a pinch of salt to the water if you are using unsalted butter to help prevent mold.

Might ought to do that with the salted butter too.  I'll suggest it to her.  I wonder if she was putting too much water in the thing and then getting the butter wet when she'd put the lid on from displacement now that I think about it.  I need to find it and see the set up of it again.