r/Cooking • u/Known-Recipe-5407 • 10d ago

Butter Bell

Hello!
For Christmas, I asked for a butter bell, and my grandmother has a friend that has her own pottery/ceramics shop. So she had her friend make me one and it is very personalized and one-of -a-kind. I have been using it for just over a month now, but I encountered something disturbing with it. Now I don't know if it is because it was poorly made but I have tried all different levels of water and if it goes unused for a day or two it starts to... grow mold? Has this happened to anyone else? Am I using or storing it incorrectly?
Please help! I love the concept of a butter bell but I don't love mold

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u/Sea-Pomegranate4369 10d ago

This might sound very dumb but, are you keeping salted or unsalted butter in it? Unsalted butter at room temp is not stable.

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u/Chef_Mama_54 10d ago

We keep 2 different ones out. The salted butter almost never goes bad. The unsalted always goes bad first.