stark wrote:

> In article >, this one
> > wrote:
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>>
>>Some sticks of butter will disappear in a few days, other hang around
>>as much as a couple weeks. Butter is marvelously resistant to
>>rancidity and spoilage just out in the room. Can't see a good reason
>>to use a bell.
>>
>>Pastorio
>>
>
> Thanks. The folks I mentioned above live in Middle Tennessee where I'm
> sure like Virginia the temps can reach 90 deg. Here in the Mid South
> our 90 deg. feels more like 105 because of our peculiar humidity and
> the pestilence that accompanies it. We may be the mould capitol of the
> vorld. But I'm game for leaving some butter out and seeing just how
> long it takes our air to attack it.

We leave the butter out on the counter (covered). Never had a problem
with it going bad. There are two of us and we use butter, maybe a 1/4
pound a week or so. Granted, our house has A/C so it's a constant 72dF
but even before we had the A/C we left it out until the temp's hit the
mid 80's or so and then put it into the fridge.

Never seen it go bad in the 50 years I've been on the planet. (but
then again, there's a few early years that I don't really recall ;-) )
--
Steve

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