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Help me find a practical butter dish!🧈

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Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 09:20

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😅)

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Mightymoog · 26/02/2025 14:19

https://alfille.co.uk/product-category/butter-dishes/

I have a plug in one!

absolute game changer.
Set it to your preferred butter consistency .
It's genuinely amazing. Especially if you're tight with the heating like I am!

MrsCarson · 26/02/2025 14:20

I have a few glass storage containers with plastic snap lids on, they fit a block of butter perfectly and seal up nicely.
Like these

theboffinsarecoming · 26/02/2025 14:21

After a succession of DH butterfingers (literally) incidents, I decided that there was no point in having a breakable butter dish.

Our current one is a 70's metal job with a wooden knob on the lid and wooden handles at the side. Washes well too. I got it from a car boot sale about 10 years ago. You can get chrome ones with a plastic lid as well.

HundredPercentUnsure · 26/02/2025 14:25

Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 10:41

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

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https://www.johnlewis.com/sophie-conran-for-portmeirion-butter-dish-white/p230400928

This is our one. Microwave, dishwasher and freezer safe too. Also oven safe but I'm not sure why anyone would put a butter dish in the oven 🤔

KittenPause · 26/02/2025 14:28

I have a le Creuset one too and never had any issues

MagpiePi · 26/02/2025 14:30

theboffinsarecoming · 26/02/2025 14:21

After a succession of DH butterfingers (literally) incidents, I decided that there was no point in having a breakable butter dish.

Our current one is a 70's metal job with a wooden knob on the lid and wooden handles at the side. Washes well too. I got it from a car boot sale about 10 years ago. You can get chrome ones with a plastic lid as well.

I can totally picture it!

Maybe we had one when I was a kid back in the 70s?

MagpiePi · 26/02/2025 14:31

Butterpause · 26/02/2025 14:10

On the cats' paws thing, my understanding has always been that the only reason they don't run away is because they are so busy licking it off.

Disclaimer - I have never actually tried this, despite my username!

I thought it was to make them lick their paws which makes them feel relaxed and less likely to run away.

RockaLock · 26/02/2025 14:34

I have the le creuset, and it's OK but I wouldn't say that it's great. It looks good but is annoying.

The problem with it is that butter slides around on the tray, and inevitably it moves towards the edge and then butter gets all over the edge of the lid when my children and husband people put the lid back on. Culminating with butter all over the work surface.

There is a groove that the lid sits in, but IMO it needs to have a second inner lip, to keep the butter from moving around so much.

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Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 14:38

probablyabadidea · 26/02/2025 10:59

I got this Tesco one recently - very basic but cheap, has a handle and can go in the dishwasher so I'm happy with it!

Like it! Bargain!

Is it tall enough to not touch the butter block?

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Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 14:39

Sunat45degrees · 26/02/2025 10:45

@Montuaklighthouse we are clearly butter dish twins so I present my second one (I like to use once then in dishwasher so one is being used, one is being washed): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QJZ38Y6?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1

The handle on this one is not quite as good, but still works well. It's quite deep which works to keep things under control but I find mildly more difficult to access the actual butter. It's not a deal breaker. I also supsect (I've only had this one since late last year), that it will be less irritating when the butter is less cold.

Definitely acceptable, although less keen on the style of this that the first one 👯

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Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 14:39

Butterpause · 26/02/2025 11:00

The 'butter bell' linked above is intriguing but my life is too short to be fashioning rectangular butter into a small upside down bell every few days.

And the accompanying video of people buttering bread on the palms of their hands makes me feel a bit sick.

It’s not for me😅

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Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 14:43

HundredMilesAnHour · 26/02/2025 12:27

I fell in love with a butter dish at the Boudin store in San Francisco but when I returned the next day to buy it, it was gone. And they didn’t have any more. 😥

That sent me down a rabbit hole quest for the perfect butter dish (and now this thread has set me off again!)

I ended up with this lovely handmade butter dish from Feldspar but it’s almost too nice to use:

https://feldspar.studio/products/butter-dish

Now that’s what I’m talking about! But it’s out of stock (Sod’s Law!)

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Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 14:45

Mightymoog · 26/02/2025 14:19

https://alfille.co.uk/product-category/butter-dishes/

I have a plug in one!

absolute game changer.
Set it to your preferred butter consistency .
It's genuinely amazing. Especially if you're tight with the heating like I am!

Oh my god!

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WillYouShutUp · 26/02/2025 14:48

Mightymoog · 26/02/2025 14:19

https://alfille.co.uk/product-category/butter-dishes/

I have a plug in one!

absolute game changer.
Set it to your preferred butter consistency .
It's genuinely amazing. Especially if you're tight with the heating like I am!

I can second this - perfect spreadable butter no matter the weather.

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Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 14:49

QuimReaper · 26/02/2025 13:20

<stands up>

I feel VERY STRONGLY about this subject.

Point I: I cannot and will never fathom the butter dish design that favours a deep dish with a lid, and not a flat base with a dome. Having your butter sunk into a dish gives no access for the blade of a knife, meaning the user needs to dig straight down into the pat and brace it against the sides so that the whole thing gets covered in butter and the butter gets all crummy and messy and gross.

The ONLY acceptable butter dish design in my view is the flat base with dome; and - point II - in my view, the only acceptable butter dish material is ceramic, which helps control the temperature. I have seen butter dishes composed of glass, meaning that if your butter dish lives on your kitchen counter and is ever exposed to sunlight, you are essentially melting it like a shipwrecked sailor trying to start a fire on a desert island. Like others have already mentioned, the Le Creuset dish is the way forward. Plus it comes in pretty colours.

<sits down>

I approve of this reply 👏🏻🧈👏🏻

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Mightymoog · 26/02/2025 14:50

Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 14:45

Oh my god!

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I know!
Honestly, get one.

Mightymoog · 26/02/2025 14:51

WillYouShutUp · 26/02/2025 14:48

I can second this - perfect spreadable butter no matter the weather.

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You'd think that plug in ones would be a common thing in this country but AFAIK nobody else does them.

GoldMoon · 26/02/2025 15:04

CoachTheCat · 26/02/2025 13:12

Me too, they can be expensive but often are cheaper in TK Maxx if you’re not fussy about colour and they last forever (as long as you don’t drop them on a hard floor). We actually have two, so that we can use a clean one for a new block of butter and put the dirty one in the dishwasher.

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Yes , me as well .

cardibach · 26/02/2025 15:38

Butterpause · 26/02/2025 10:03

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.

No, these ones are rubbish. You can’t scrape the butter because it’s down inside the pot. It needs a flat tray and a sort on upside down pot to go over it like @HalfasleepChrisintheMorning’s example. I’d prefer a China/pottery/wood one though.

HundredMilesAnHour · 26/02/2025 15:59

Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 14:43

Now that’s what I’m talking about! But it’s out of stock (Sod’s Law!)

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It’s only the Cobalt (blue) one that’s out of stock. They DO have the Gold and the Geranium (red).

I have the gold one. Because I’m fancy. 😛😂

probablyabadidea · 26/02/2025 16:16

Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 14:38

Like it! Bargain!

Is it tall enough to not touch the butter block?

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Yes! It doesn't touch it at all (assuming you have normal height butter!). I'm really pleased with it, especially at such a low price.

northwestgirl · 26/02/2025 16:23

Butterpause · 26/02/2025 10:03

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.

we have this
in fact we have 2 so we can use one while the other is in the dishwasher
bonus point- you an put it in the microwave for a few seconds if the butter is rock hard

fitflopqueen · 26/02/2025 16:26

I have this https://www.tg-woodware.com/tgcollection/tg-commodity/butter-dishes-egg-cups-dip-dishes/pride-of-place-butter-dish-white
in a butter yellow colour, fits standard pack of butter with space all round and room for lid so no smeary edges, my favourite to use.
We also have a Denby dish with flat base and brick like lid, this looks messy quickly.

AdoraBell · 26/02/2025 16:28

I have a Le Creuset butter dish, it’s heavy but I love it.

Blarn · 26/02/2025 16:33

beetr00 · 26/02/2025 10:41

@Montuaklighthouse this 🙂

I never knew I needed one of these.