container is matters.
Whether the butter is salted or unsalted matters.
And the conditions in your kitchen matter.
A cool kitchen is very different from a hot kitchen.
A covered butter dish is different from an uncovered stick sitting next to the stove.
So apparently the answer is not simply:
BUTTER = FRIDGE
or
BUTTER = COUNTER
There is actually some nuance here.
Which honestly makes this whole argument even more annoying.
Because Nobody Told Me There Was Nuance
My family had one rule.
Refrigerate it.
So I never questioned it.
That’s the funny thing about household habits.
Most of us inherit dozens of them without realizing it.
You don’t sit down at age seven and ask:
“Why exactly do we store butter this way?”
You just watch what everyone else does.
Your mother puts butter in the refrigerator.
Your father puts butter in the refrigerator.
Your grandparents put butter in the
