On 20 Nov 2005 14:10:36 +0100, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>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. :-)

I use mine similarly here in summer. When it gets hot (anything over
95 qualifies as hot to me, even though the weatherman-I-mean
meteorologist insists on calling it merely warm until it's over 100!),
I close up the house in the morning and set the thermostat at 80. It
cools nicely at night here, so after sundown, I open up the house, and
before I go to bed, run the whole house fan to cool down the attic.
Keeps things comfortable.

TammyM in Sacramento, California