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My mom & my nana both have the ceramic crock that's upside down with water in it. we keep ours in the fridge but don't use it super often.

We put it in the fridge

I looove butter! I leave it in the fridge, and then cut a few thin slices before I toast my bread. Within 5-7 min, the butter is soft enough to spread!

We keep it in the fridge.

We put the stick we're using in a butter dish, covered, out. The other three sticks stay in the fridge until they're needed. Hard butter is just an extra obstacle in the morning : )

We keep most of it in the fridge, but keep a butter bell on the counter for spreadable butter anytime.

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I put a half a brick out and the rest in the fridge. Sometimes it does go bad, but what is nice is that it goes rancid and it's very easy to tell. You will never accidentally eat bad butter. Plus, it takes weeks.

I leave my butter out in a covered butter dish and it has never gone bad. It's pretty mild weather in the seattle area though and we use up the butter pretty quickly.

We only leave salted butter out in a covered butter dish and we always use it up before it goes bad.

We leave it in the fridge.. but this thread reminded me of this and the bane of my existence

Believe it or not but we never regularly have butter in the house or a butter substitute! If we did it would be in the fridge.

Onetime DH wanted boxed mac and cheese that requires butter and we had to use yogurt lol since we forgot we don't have butter.

We leave one stick out in a covered butter dish. It would take quite a while to go bad, and it would be very obvious if it was rancid (it would smell and taste terrible), so I don't worry about it.

in the fridge. we rarely use it except when cooking/baking so it doesn't matter if it's hard. (also, we don't have a toaster or toaster oven; maybe if we did we would use it! ahh the annoyances of living in an nyc apt with limited countertop space...)

We primarily keep it in the fridge, but will put half a stick or so in a covered butter dish on the counter. It makes life so much easier when all you want is to butter a slice of toast without being aggravated.

when we're on a buttered bread kick, we'll leave out a stick of a butter in a covered wooden butter dish. it stays good for at least 2 or 3 weeks, depending on ambient temperature. readily soft butter is so much nicer for spreading. we keep the rest of the butter in the fridge for cooking and storage.

The butter is kept in the fridge, but if I want it softer before use I just take it out while I prep the rest of the meal.

I leave it out, but only a 1/4 cup or so, the rest is in the fridge. Just don't leave out more than you can eat before it goes bad!