After breakfast or after brunch, have you ever forgotten the butter on the table for a few hours? But then is it dangerous for health? Does the product lose freshness or quality? We tell you everything!
Who has never been tempted or who has simply left their butter outside the fridge at room temperature to be able to spread it more easily on their toast or in a cake mold? This is a fairly common practice that many people do without even asking themselves the question of the real danger of the preservation or proliferation of bacteria. Indeed, our cooking habits can be surrounded by bad habits which are actually harmful to health, such as not washing fruits and vegetables after peeling them, or even defrosting meat at room temperature.
So is butter also affected and is leaving it out of the fridge at room temperature dangerous for your health? Don’t panic, the risk of bacteria developing is actually minimal even if you forget for a few hours! Made up mainly of fat and very little water, butter is not conducive to the proliferation of bacteria and even less so if it is salty! Indeed, salt is a very good preservative agent used for millennia. However, while eating unrefrigerated butter is not a danger for the proliferation of bacteria, it can go bad very quickly.
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Tips for storing butter
You must have already noticed that butter changes color over time, it gradually becomes darker and this is also the case when it is stored outside the refrigerator. In fact, this color is the result of fat oxidation which will then alter the taste and odor of the butter by making it rancid. If you do not want to eat rancid butter, it is advisable to consume unrefrigerated butter within one or two days maximum.
But then, how do you keep your butter out of the refrigerator so that every morning you don’t have to struggle when you need to spread your bread? In this case, simply do not leave the entire block of butter out of the fridge, but only a small quantity which you will keep in an airtight box and preferably with high opacity to protect it from the sun. But be careful if the interior temperature of your home exceeds 21 degrees, it is strongly recommended to keep your butter in the refrigerator at all times.
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