does butter have to be vaccum packed?.....I usually just throw mine in the deep freeze.
No it doesn’t have to be vaccum packed, but it will last longer that way and taste better.
Things that I just stick in a bag and put in the freezer begin to taste off if they aren’t used right away or get lost at the bottom.
I found some packages of corn that I vacuum packed in 2014(IIRC) and I thought sure they needed to be pitched. However it was a good year for corn - so I decided to test one. It was as good tasting as the year it was grown.
That sold me on vacuum packing anything that I want to last a year or longer.
I never vacuum seal butter. I just freeze it as is.