BUTTER!!! How do you carry yours??

[maddave]

One of the things I miss when I'm lightweighting is a good dollop of butter, for toast, cooking etc. Now I don't want to carry a full pat, just enough for a couple of rounds of toast over the weekend and maybe to make some butties. Trouble starts when the temperature rises during the day or the lid comes off your container as your pack moves and jostles... The result, butter over all your kit and a right old cleanup job.

What are your ideas for transporting a small block of butter so that it doesn't cause mischief??

 

[Lister]

I've used a small air-tight tupperware box (~1"sq) with a bit of string poking out, put the butter in that and dropped it into my camelbak (tying the string to the top of the camelbak), providing i don't drink all the water, it keeps the block just the at the top between hard and spreadable.

 

[bilmo-p5]

I use a seamless (tuna) can with a plastic snap on lid. In the pack The tin goes inside a ziploc type bag in case the lid does get popped off.

 

[Opal]

I use these quite a lot, in goes olive oil, spices, Flora, powdered milk etc, etc and a handy label too.

 

[Lister]

I use these quite a lot, in goes olive oil, spices, Flora, powdered milk etc, etc and a handy label too.

just don't used one you've whizzed in, can imagine the weird looks you'd get at the docs giving them one with butter herbs and oil in

 

[JohnC]

I have one of the melanine/plastic ?german army butter dishes.

 

[Teepee]

I have a 2 oz Nalgene screwtop container now, but used to keep it in multiple ziplocks.

 

[topknot]

I use a WW2 German army butter dish top bit of kit. The link is only for the pic.

http://store.colemans.com/cart/german-military-butter-dish-p-2712.html

Topknot

 

[rik_uk3]

Plastic tub with the lock down tabs or take Lurpak Spreadable.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-3-x-3...en_Kitchen_FoodStorage_GL&hash=item2573815b19 but cheaper in poundstretcher / pound world

 

[DaveBromley]

Why don't you get some of the single serving ones that you get in hotels etc that come in plastic packets

Dave

 

[Bushwhacker]

Those single service catering ones you get at motorway rest stops. Same with sauce, salt, pepper and vinegar. When I was livin in a van for 10 months it was the best way.

Haha Dave beat me to it.

 

[xylaria]

small ziplock bags organised into light plastic click shut box. I keep it with salt, bicarb, dry chillis, gravy, miso, ect.

 

[sandbender]

"...What are your ideas for transporting a small block of butter so that it doesn't cause mischief??."

I gave up trying, these days I carry a v/small Sigg bottle filled with olive oil and use that instead of butter.

 

[rik_uk3]

I gave up trying, these days I carry a v/small Sigg bottle filled with olive oil and use that instead of butter.

Good idea but olive oil clashes with the marmite on my toasted soldiers, it would ruin the whole dippy egg experience...I fear you've lived in Europe a tad too long and gone 'native'

Now, good bread, olive oil, rubbed with fresh garlic is a different matter

 

[sandbender]

".....I fear you've lived in Europe a tad too long and gone 'native' ..."

That may well be true.

 

[Noddy]

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[santaman2000]

Just take some full cream in a jar and the long hike should churn it by the time you get to your campsite.

 

[jacko1066]

Does anyone no if butter can be frozen??
Im thinking maybe get a block of it, freeze it, wrap it tin foil, then bubble wrap and another layer of tin foil then as it deforsts it will go soft on the outer layer making it spreadable.
What do you guys think?
Cheers
Steve

 

[rik_uk3]

Just take some full cream in a jar and the long hike should churn it by the time you get to your campsite.

Thats pushing it a bit santaman lol.

 

[santaman2000]

Does anyone no if butter can be frozen??
Im thinking maybe get a block of it, freeze it, wrap it tin foil, then bubble wrap and another layer of tin foil then as it deforsts it will go soft on the outer layer making it spreadable.
What do you guys think?
Cheers
Steve

Being serious now; yes. I buy 2 or 3 pounds of butter at a time when it's on sale and keep it in the freezer until I need it. I only pull out 1 stick at a time (quarter pound stick) as I need it. Actually milk can be frozen as well. But be advised, it can pick up odors from other foods in the freezer (same as in the fridge) unless properly sealed.