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Nor does it need freezing.
Stop serving me bricks with my food.
You fucking morons.
Stop serving me bricks with my food.
You fucking morons.
I've left butter out for weeks in the summer, not a particularly cool house, and it's been fine.
I've left butter out for weeks in the summer, not a particularly cool house, and it's been fine.
My mother used to leave butter out and it never went bad but remember butter has salts and preservative crap in it now.
I’m sure pure organic butter would spoil, also I’ve heard the fat turns rancid overtime not all at once so it begins to taste funky slowly over time.
Regarding food places if you want soft butter ask for soft butter.
Salt is a preservative, that is why you buy salted butter, especially if you're going to leave it out at room temperature all the time.
That and taste, unsalted butter is bland like an egg without salt.
Unsalted butter is typically used for baking.
That too.
My wife brought home unsalted butter once... I almost divorced her.
You want her to eat dry white toast? While you sit there with your four fried chickens?
This is how it went down.
I made some cookies and I didn’t realize I had two sticks in the freezer. New unsalted box goes into the freezer.
I use all but a tablespoon or two of the unsalted butter.
She uses that unsalted butter the next morning.
I pick up proper salted butter, she continues to use the unsalted.
Later during the week she takes a stick of unsalted butter out of the freezer.
She had a weird aversion to salt but it was mostly fixed by some bloodwork she had done and being low on iodine(?). Doctor recommended she have more salt.
Yup, people need more salt, not less. The problem is we all rely on knee-jerk anecdotal information for the majority of our decisions in life:
Whole book on it:
The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life - Kindle edition by DiNicolantonio, Dr. James . Health, Fitness & Dieting Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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Same with fat. Eat your eggs, lard, and bacon. The real problem is excessive sugar intake:
Over 50% of America is now diabetic in some form; Type II is largely self-induced & is reversible for the majority of the population:
I haven't followed up on the latest data yet, but last I read eating less than 20g carbs per day for 9 months does the trick in most cases. Couple that with some exercise & voila! Especially since sitting apparently kills you:
There’s more evidence that sitting in your free time can kill you
Sitting more than six hour a day during your free time raises the risk of early death by 19 percent.www.nbcnews.com
Anyway, I quit buying unsalted butter. I personally haven't found a use for it over the years. Every single recipe I've used that calls for unsalted butter has benefited from using salted instead. Good article on unsalted butter:
Stop Using Unsalted Butter
We've been told to use unsalted butter. But is there really enough salt in salted butter to make a difference? Chef Max Hull of The Chopping Block tests itwww.thechoppingblock.com
Which leads into why I preach macros so much:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/d0rxv6/muscle_growth/ezebxg9/?context=3
My current approach:
1. Eat macros, including lots of salt & fat
2. Use a strong but simple meal-prep system to make things easy
3. Use modern appliances to make things even easier
4. Profit! (literally - I saved so much money by cooking at home that I bought a Mustang lol)
TL;DR: Use salted butter & get a sports car.
What about bread?If you need butter at a restaurant, then you are not eating at good restaurants. Sufficient butter should be cooked inside the food to begin with.