Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

Help me find a practical butter dish!🧈

186 replies

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😅)

OP posts:
Thread gallery
7
Ilovemyshed · 26/02/2025 16:37

Good old fashion stainless steel

amzn.eu/d/0Llxcp8

Butterpause · 26/02/2025 16:37

cardibach · 26/02/2025 15:38

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.

Edited
Show quote history

Well, I've had it about 20 years and have never had any trouble accessing the butter inside the pot.

Quite the contrary, I think it's easier because if the butter is hard there's something to push against when it's in a deep pot. How do you hold butter on a shallow dish when you're trying to scrape slithers off? It skitters all over the place. Madness, I tell you, madness.

MadMadMad · 26/02/2025 16:38

MagpiePi · 26/02/2025 10:17

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

I’ve got two of these and they’re brilliant as you can stack them. I put the butter in the shallow half and cove with the deep half as it makes it easier to cut bits off for cooking.

Butterpause · 26/02/2025 16:40

Ilovemyshed · 26/02/2025 16:37

Good old fashion stainless steel

amzn.eu/d/0Llxcp8

You see, that's my idea of a butter dish nightmare. The noise of metal on metal as you put your knife in - aaargh!

Sunat45degrees · 26/02/2025 16:45

Butterpause · 26/02/2025 16:40

You see, that's my idea of a butter dish nightmare. The noise of metal on metal as you put your knife in - aaargh!

Show quote history

But i just remembered, in restaurants in South Africa - the sort of B&B type place- you used to get butter balls or butter pats that were dropped into a sort of stainless steel ball that then sat on a little stand. YOu could open the top of the ball and it would then slide under, exposing the butter.

Not wild about the staineless steel part, but my hinged idea is taking shape in my head..... Grin

northwestgirl · 26/02/2025 16:46

we are all going to be haunted by utter dish adverts for weeks now

Cavello · 26/02/2025 16:47

EarlierDistraction · 26/02/2025 11:07

We've got this one, the handle makes it easy to get the lid off, you just turn the lid over and sit it on the counter upside down while using the butter and it goes in the dishwasher. I don't like the dome ones as someone inevitably digs the edge of the lid into the butter when putting it back on and you get smears round it, don't like glass ones (FIL has one) because they look messy when the butter is half used especially if it's soft.

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/1496/insulated-butter-dish

We have this one, it's great!

northwestgirl · 26/02/2025 16:48

hmm
I wonder what an utter dish might be

Ophy83 · 26/02/2025 16:48

Le creuset here... comes in loads of colour options and can sometimes be found in a charity shop for next to nothing

Sunat45degrees · 26/02/2025 16:49

I present... roll top butter dishes!

Bamboozles · 26/02/2025 16:50

MagpiePi · 26/02/2025 10:17

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

We had this one as a wedding present 50 years ago and still use daily 😀

deeahgwitch · 26/02/2025 17:02

I have 2 of those insulated Lakeland butter dishes. One in use, one spare.
They're sold as being insulated and so the butter won't be too hard or too soft but this isn't the case. ☹️
I leave the butter dish out of the fridge in winter on the countertop with the lid on and the butter can still be quite hard. If left out on the countertop, with the lid on in the summer the butter melts.
However they are handy and better than most butter dishes.

crackfoxy · 26/02/2025 18:46

MagpiePi · 26/02/2025 10:17

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

IKEA do these without the cow design. It's perfect and goes in the dishwasher in between butters!

Newmumburnout · 26/02/2025 18:51

I got the Sainsbury's one for 6.50 and it's great

Butterpause · 26/02/2025 19:12

Looking at those ones on Etsy I think I might need an antique silver plate hinged one in the shape of a clam shell for high days and holidays 😍.

socialdilemmawhattodo · 26/02/2025 19:13

I haven't rtt, but after me or my family had broken several ceramic butter dishes, all gorgeous patterns but quite expensive, I then bought a metal one with a lid. It's perfect. Washes up easily and in the dishwasher. And if by some chance the lid falls to the floor it doesn't even seem to dent.

OliveHenry · 26/02/2025 19:15

I never knew that plug in "always the right consistency" butter dishes even existed.

And now I want one!

SiobahnRoy · 26/02/2025 19:21

I have the Nigella Lawson one from years ago. Ceramic with a wooden lid. I often just put a small amount in a ramekin in summer though. I am tempted by the idea of a French butter crock though.

VivaLaSpag · 26/02/2025 19:25

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.

Absolutely agree with you and i’m so glad I found this thread because this very morning my DH was lamenting yet another smear of butter on the worktop due to the poor containment of the Le Creuset butter dish. It is a problem!

NotVeryFunny · 26/02/2025 19:40

We have a le creuset one. Works steeply well. Comes in loads of colours. Dishwasher safe.

NotVeryFunny · 26/02/2025 19:40

*really

NotVeryFunny · 26/02/2025 19:42

Just seen the PPs about le creuset butter dishes. Not had a problem with the butter moving around even in the summer! It generally sits where it needs to be and the only time you get butter on the lid is if you get your aim wrong when putting it on!

CatteryCatss · 26/02/2025 19:46

SuperLoudPoppingAction · 26/02/2025 10:46

I have a Le Creuset one. It has a flat base then domed lid with a knob and the whole thing can go in the dishwasher.

I second a Le Creuset one too. Ours was very affordable from TK Maxx