> “It was probably 40 degrees outside, but there’s a lot of heat going on in the back,”

Would this is safe to do on a sunny warm weather? Would body heat plus the sun ruin the cream?

cogman10 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Would this is safe to do on a sunny warm weather? Would body heat plus the sun ruin the cream?

It's fairly safe. You can leave dairy products unrefrigerated for an uncomfortable amount of time :) Butter, in particular, can last for days outside a fridge.

The bacteria that tends to infest dairy products will usually (but not always) turn it into something tasty like yogurt.

Don't get me wrong, you can definitely get sick from spoiled dairy products, but it's not a 100% thing.

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shanehoban 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Butter, in particular, can last for days outside a fridge.

I live in Ireland, and once we take butter out of the fridge (to replace the one that's now gone), it doesn't go back in, whatever the weather. All butter here is basically of Kerrygold quality (I'm talking real butter of course).

	▲	cogman10 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's basically how we treated butter while I grew up. So long as it's salted, it rarely goes bad outside the fridge. We had a butter dish and that was about it. The cover keeps the butter from turning a darker yellow and drying out. But we'd still eat it even when that happened. Gotta be honest, though, I'm not a fan of grassy dairy products :). I had dairy cows growing up and in the spring their milk definitely took on a distinct grassy flavor. I personally preferred it more when it was primarily hay flavored. Store milk tastes like basically nothing in particular.
	▲	closewith 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, also in Ireland and while I wouldn't leave homemade butter out for more than a day or two, Kerrygold salted will last two weeks at 19C without issue.

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luxuryballs 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah we keep butter in a butter dish in the cupboard, refill from the fridge as it is used up. I never knew this wasn’t what everyone did until my roommate in college was blown away about how good the butter was this way.

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iamacyborg 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Would this is safe to do on a sunny warm weather?

I’d be more concerned about having plastic bags against my skin when I’m sweating heavily than the effect the heat would have on the butter tbh. Hot weather is an excuse to wear less clothing, not wrap yourself in ziploc bags

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macintux 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> This tracks with the science; according to Scientific American, room-temperature cream turns to butter much faster than cold cream because the molecules move more quickly at higher temperatures. Of course, if the temperature gets too high, everything will just melt, so their experiment probably wouldn’t have worked on a summer run.

	▲	bluGill 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Cold cream becomes whipped cream. colder yet icecream.

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helph67 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On warmer days you could swap doing the washing for food preparation!

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KolmogorovComp 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I assume they shamelessly were talking in Fahrenheit degrees.