On Sun 20 Nov 2005 06:02:42a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Rhonda
Anderson?

> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
> :
>
>> On Sun 20 Nov 2005 01:42:28a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Rhonda
>> Anderson?
>
>>> If I did want spreadable butter in summer, I'd have to try the butter
>>> holder with the water like Jill has, and see if that worked. On the
>>> plus side, except in the coldest weather, it doesn't really take too
>>> long for butter to soften enough for creaming when baking cakes.
>>>
>>> Rhonda Anderson
>>> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia
>>>
>>
>> Yes, the butter bells do keep it firmer. We keep our home
>> air-conditioned to 70-72 degrees in the summer, so butter left out is
>> not a melting problem.
>>
>
> Wayne, do you mean that your air-conditioning runs all the time, even
> when you're not home?
>
> Rhonda Anderson
> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Yes, most of the time. Our summer temps are almost always above 110
degrees F, often running as high as 115 and occasionally as high as 118.
If we didn't run the air-conditioning, it could/would affect many things
in the house, not just the butter. :-) Our 5 housecats and 1 puppy would
probably have heatstroke.

Here it is past the middle of November and we're still having temps in the
low 90s. All the penalty of living in the desert. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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