Butter on the counter?

[cosine]

Unsalted for cooking, but I prefer to have salted for toast. Both kept in the refrigerator.

[Ron]

Counter, fridge and freezer.

[K Frame]

Gunsafe.

*expletive deleted*it's expensive.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I'm that one who voted "margarine".
Butter is for rich folks. 

The butter/margerine price issue is one I catorgize as "screw that, I'll pay for the good stuff, or do without all together!"

I'm sorry, but margerine is just nasty. 

[Balog]

So do I. it has tooth marks in it.

She's dumb, but not dumb enough to chew up a glass cover (so far anyway).

[Strings]

Ok... Dozer probably would...

You know... pets DO act like their owners...

[BlueStarLizzard]

Ok... Dozer probably would...

You know... pets DO act like their owners...

Oh, now that ws cold. 

[Strings]

You don't know Bedlamite and I...

That was actually fairly nice!

[lupinus]

Around here, the price for the two isn't much different.

Though to fair, I generally dish out the extra dollar or so it costs for decent butter. Something like Cabbot has much better flavor than store brand or something like Land O'Lakes. Lupark or similar is even better, though I don't require really good butter often enough to keep it on hand all of the time.

[bedlamite]

I should post the video of Strings' drooling cat.

[T.O.M.]

Price?  Here in Ohio, I get a pound for around $2.20.  Lasts me about two weeks...

[grampster]

I cook my bacon in butter.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I should post the video of Strings' drooling cat.

Do you hold that cats are also like their owners?

If so, I shall wear rain gear if I ever meet strings. 

[Strings]

That wasn't my cat: it was Spoon's.

Dig a lil deeper, bro. Or maybe go fall out of another treestand... 

[Hawkmoon]

I'm sorry, but margerine is just nasty. 

It's worse than that.

A good many years ago, my summer job was in a factory that made swimming pool filters. The sales manager was a young guy who had a degree in chemical engineering. Dunno how he ended up selling swimming pool filters, but there he was ... and we were both car nuts, so we became friendly.

A year or so after the last summer I worked there, he moved on to a much better-paying job at a chemical company. Got himself a pretty wife, bought a new house, and a Mustang Shelby Cobra 500 (the original -- I did say this was awhile ago). He invited me up one Saturday to meet his wife and see the new house and car. Somewhere during the over-dinner conversation, the topic of butter vs. margarine came up. He flatly stated that he would not allow it in the house. Naturally, I asked why. He told me.

Turns out, margarine is a chemical by-product. My friend found out that margarine is made out of what's left over from when his company made other, higher-priced chemicals. He said once he learned what it is (not "what's in it" -- I said "what it is"), he decided it's completely toxic and not fit for human or animal consumption.

Who am I to argue with a chemical engineer about chemicals? Butter tastes better anyway.

[MrsSmith]

When I don't have a teenage son in residence with a fondness for anything that even remotely resembles butter, I keep it in a butter crock on the counter. Since I do have one of those in residence, I hide it in the vegetable drawer under a bag of spinach.

[Boomhauer]

When I don't have a teenage son in residence with a fondness for anything that even remotely resembles butter, I keep it in a butter crock on the counter. Since I do have one of those in residence, I hide it in the vegetable drawer under a bag of spinach.

JETHRO!

[Scout26]

JETHRO!

That woke up the dog and made Robert come running.   MrsSmith, your son officially has a new nickname.

 

[K Frame]

"My friend found out that margarine is made out of what's left over from when his company made other, higher-priced chemicals."

Huh?

Margerine is made from hydrogenated oils, such as soy, cottonseed, corn, etc.

It's partially hydrogenated (to make it solid) using a catalyzation process.

There's no doubt that there are some interesting chemicals used in the manufacture of margerine, but it's not as if it's a complete and total byproduct of, say, the manufacture of pesticides or nuclear weapons.

[Marnoot]

What Mike said. Margarine = partially hydrogenated oil. They (partially) hydrogenate it by bubbling hydrogen through the oil (sometimes with nickel as a catalyst, though it's not present in the final product). No odd chemistry experiment byproducts. Transfat-free margarine has a little more chemistry involved, but is still not a byproduct of anything.

[MrsSmith]

That woke up the dog and made Robert come running.   MrsSmith, your son officially has a new nickname.

 

Perfect!!