• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    One of my wife’s friends got persistently sick last year. She just could not get better. Sometimes she’d be fine for a week or two, but then she’d get sick again. Eventually it came down to her needing to document everything she did each day - and they discovered she was getting sick from warm butter.

    Turns out her mom had come over at some point and saw that she refrigerated butter and said “you don’t need to do that, it’s so much easier to use when warm and it doesn’t go bad.” Yeah, that’s the case if you eat a stick of butter in a few short days. But you can’t leave it out for more than that or it starts getting filled with all sorts of germs.

    • Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Was it unsalted butter? Salted butter can be left out for a while, certainly more than a few days without concern, but unsalted needs to be refrigerated.

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        5 months ago

        i eat salted butter that stay days outside the freezer without getting sick, never tested with unsalted, or my immune system is better idk

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      5 months ago

      For the last few years, I’ve been using butter I leave out in a covered butter dish on the counter since I learned that’s fine. It’s always been a stick of salted butter which I typically finish within 2-3 weeks and that’s never caused any problems. I wonder if it being unsalted would really change things that much…

    • Willy@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      did she just leave it out uncovered? one of those ceramic dish things with a cover seems to keep it out fine.