"Just to be sure about the official American government perspective, I contacted the Food and Drug Administration. While the FDA has plenty of warnings about the perils of raw milk, the agency concedes that keeping butter out in the open is usually fine. An FDA food safety expert wrote in an email, “One can get away with storing butter at ambient temperature for a while since the temperature usually won’t be high enough to deform or melt the product and it will not appreciably accelerate the oxidative rancidity process, meaning that the butter will keep just fine for a while.”"
https://gizmodo.com/stop-refrigerating-your-butter-1624023431
My family always had butter out in a butter dish and my mom used to joke that we were probably just eating it too quickly for it to go bad, but now our gross butter behavior is vindicated!
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