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Just dropping in to say you absolutely can leave butter out at room temp for weeks at a time and it'll be perfectly fine. Been doing it my whole life. Never once had it go rancid. Don't know what a butter bell is, but I do put it on a tray and keep it covered, but that's all.

Earth balance is an acceptable vegan margarine/butter substitute for most applications

Ghee

Cold butter is too annoying to try to spread on a piece of bread so yeah, I just use margarine. I do always keep butter around for cooking and baking purposes though

I use butter/ghee for baking/cooking, I don't use it as a spread on bread/toast so I don't need to worry about leaving it on the counter. I grew up in a margarine household, I made the switch when I grew up & got into baking and I just can't go back. Butter just makes baked goods taste better.

Here's a tip: anyone can make delicious brownies from a box, just sub water with milk, use melted butter instead of oil, and toss in some instant espresso powder & some extra vanilla extract. Takes basically no effort & it improves them immensely

Depends. There's a very good, very butter tasting vegan "butter" (it's margarine) that I use a lot nowadays. All depends a bit on what's on sale too.

Often we use a margarine that is a mix of butter and oil, not sure what is is techically. I've also made my own margarine from butter, oil and water and it's very easy to make and pretty nice. Having something soft for bread is preferred, but I tend to cook and bake with olive oil, removedseed oil or butter.

tallow

jk, I like to use margarine

Olive oil cuz vegan and not wacky nasty flavor that margarine sometimes have in some uses

That said, I'd love for butter to be vegan cuz I really miss it lol

I don't like margarine because the 1 time i made soy buttercream icing the sweet taste of the soy has become very apparent

I don't like butter because i started getting that bourgue Irish butter and other butters just seem inferior

Fun fact about the butter they buy at my work: it's 50% margarine! We literally buy margarine for vegan shit and 50% butter for nonvegan shit

For bread margarine, because it's vegan and healthier than butter, even the bad margarine. If you choose one with good fats, even better. The taste can also be good, but it varies. Also there's special margarine for baking that works similar to butter and it can taste similar too, of you want that. For cooking: olive oil or other oil.

Butter. It’s not the healthiest thing so I don’t mind more trouble spreading it on bread out of the fridge as it’s not a daily use item anyways and it usually softens enough within a few minutes I can carefully slice a little off.

Margarine because .

Whoever is able to get animal-free dairy products going should be given the Nobel prize.

I’m a butter truther. Got a butter bell which uses a bit of water to keep it sealed from mold and keeps the temp pretty steady so it’s nice and soft when I want to use it. Highly recommend

Butter for any cooking application, but margarine for any reheating situation, especially corn and pasta

Coconut oil and olive oil mix. Just kidding I can’t afford that combo.

For general cooking it makes almost no difference but to me a bread with margarine or potatoes with margarine is pretty much inedible but quite tasty with butter instead.

Rawdog

Margarine because it's vegan.

coconut oil

I would rather eat nothing than anything with margarine. It tastes like the underside of a cafeteria tray in jail.

Buy a butter bell.