Help me find a practical butter dish!🧈

[Montuaklighthouse]

Is it just me, or are all butter dishes just a bit crap?

Latest purchase has a bamboo lid that fits into a china dish, but it just gets covered in butter and becomes so tricky to remove due to being wedged into the dish and causing a sort of vacuum - I usually end up with the dish itself slipping out of your hand and using a knife to lever the lid out!

All I want is a basic dish with a lid/cover that doesn’t slip out of your hand and is big enough to fit a 250mg butter pack.

Is this too much to ask?🫠

(Lighthearted-ish😅)

I like ones like this, so no-one can put the lid onto the butter.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leonardo-Collection-Pimpernel-Dishwasher-Butterdish/dp/B0DD7QF7T6

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I have just bought this one and am pleased with it

Here

John Lewis website has plenty.

That's so beautiful

This is the perfect size for a 250g block of butter.

The lid is domed and rests on a lip above the butter so it doesn't get messy.

The butter is easy to get out because you can hold the outside of dish while you cut/press the butter against it with your knife.

It's not fancy but if you're after one that works this is it.

Details have been cut off the photo but are visible if you tap it. The brand is Bartleet and it's available on Amazon. There are different sizes - the one you want is 13.5 x 11 x 9 cm for a tenner.

I got one of these when I was a student about (oh god) 30 years ago and it is still going strong. It's great as you can put it in the dishwasher when it gets too manky and it has a picture of a cow on the lid.

I thought this design would have long gone but you can still get them from loads of places, just google glass cow butter dish

ProCook do a nice range of butter dishse that are all pretty solid, easy to use, and can be popped in the dishwasher. The key thing to consider is whether you want one where you remove the lid but the dish is in a sort of bowl - benefit that the butter stays put but it can be more difficult to access - or where the butter is on a plate and the "bowl" bit is the lid that you remove - very easy to access the butter but I do find it can move around a bit.

I have one of each.

I think I would seriously consider looking for (or inventing) one with a dish that is hinged in some way. My biggest furstration with both versions is having to find somewhere to put the lid while I use the butter.

I like the see-through ones in theory but in practice am irrationally annoyed by the visibility of smears on the glass!

@MagpiePi I also have the cow butter dish but I use it upside down compared to the screenshot I
E. I put the butter on the flat bit and the dome over the top

Here is mine. Does the job well. Came with a butter knife that you can keep on top, although we don't use it.

Ahh see we had this one, but the lid kept getting covered in butter and my kids kept dropping it! It’s very robust, but slippery due to lack of handle/knob!😅

A PP after my own heart😇

The lid placement dilemma also coupled with the fact that ‘butter fingers’ make the lids slippery to hold onto!

I never thought of doing it that way.
Where do you wipe the excess crumb encrusted butter if not on the edge of the dish? ....Asking for teenage/adult children 🙄

Yep! Plus my DH and kids are messy gits and so it would need to be in the dishwasher before the butter was even finished!

I have this one in a different colour I think (I assume it's the same - I've had it for a while and it looks the same) https://www.procook.co.uk/product/malmo-charcoal-butter-dish-150-x-125mm

Lid is fine, easy to hold onto. Just annoying to find somewhere to put it! :) I looked on amazn - the only hinged lid options were plastic.

We have the cow one too! Bought about 26 years ago when we had a new kitten to defend the butter from her! Kitten lived to 22 still liking butter!

I have a glass one, but we use it upside down to most. Always thought that's what you were meant to do.

See this one looks remarkably like the one I have, but the inside of the dish ends up with butter being smeared into the sides of the lid and then it adds to the vacuum effect of the lid, so becomes hard to open without levering with a knife😅

@Montuaklighthouse this 🙂

Now this looks like a true contender, I mean it has an actual handle! Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻

This looks rather complex?!

I prop my butter dish lid against the edge of my breadboard. Practical breadboards are a whole other thread but mine is slotted with a crumbcatcher tray underneath so minimal crumb transference risk. 😅