Where does the butter melt?

[john_morris_uk]

i think you first have to look at what you mean by 'melts'. I think a better criteria would be 'when the butter is spreadable'.
Its about 32ºC in mi casa just now and I ran a rough test by taking butter from fridge and sticking an oven thermometer just under the surface. Spreadable at 20ºC . I'll do another test in the AM when the temp is expected to be 19C. Temp rose a bit too fast this arvo.
This was using 'Mainland'(NZ) salted butter.

Going to this site earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions that puts us in about 30ºN or the lat of the Canaries.

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I like the research.

However I think ‘when the butter melts’ refers to it collapsing into it’s liquid state. Which a quick google says is 32-36C.

 

[Frank Holden]

I like the research.

However I think ‘when the butter melts’ refers to it collapsing into it’s liquid state. Which a quick google says is 32-36C.

Ed Zakery. If you keep sailing south until the butter liquifies before turning right you'll probably end up in Recife or maybe even Antarctica..
This assumes the butter is in the shade in a well ventilated saloon. Also that its 100% butter and not a 'spreadable' blend.
More research to follow.

 

[Frank Holden]

Research completed.
Butter out of fridge while making first coffee of the day. Surface temp 8ºC. Butter can be carved at that temp.
Drank first coffee, checked butter, surface temp 18ºC. Easily spreadable. By time it hit 24ºC yesterday it was beyond spreadable, I would have called it sloppy.
So depending on the individual perception butter may be said to 'melt' anywhere from 18ºC to 36ºC.
This would mean that on a voyage from northern Europe to the Indies you would be turning right anywhere between Madeira and the equator.
'Spreadable' would seem to work - after a fashion.
It may be some months before forumites resident in the UK can replicate this experiment.
Ambient here is currently 22ºC indoors and out.
earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

 

[boomerangben]

Brave man bringing an anchor of that vintage to this butter knife fight

 

[Boathook]

Every time I see the thread title no one has mentioned in a butter dish. Could be messy if outside a container !

 

[Frank Holden]

I've just taken out a new block of butter and see I made an error. It isn't 'Mainland' brand, that's cheese, it's 'Westgold'.
I also, in the wee small hours, had an idea.
Why not invest in one of them newfangled thermometers and turn right when the daytime tempreature in the shade reaches 18/20 º ?
Better still - just turn right when the wind comes away from the NE?

 

[Wansworth]

Well you wouldn’t turn right off Galicia at the mo……buttersolid in dish!