Page 6 | Help me find a practical butter dish!🧈

Montuaklighthouse · 2025-02-26T09:20:38+00:00

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😅)

jaundicedoutlook · 26/02/2025 22:52

We have a tray with dome style one that we bought in some random shop on holiday in Italy donkey’s years ago, but it is absolutely tiny and only takes about 1/4 of a pat of butter at a time. It only gets used on Sunday mornings as that’s the only time the proper butter comes out for toast.

ilovemyhamster · 26/02/2025 22:56

QuimReaper · 26/02/2025 13:20

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.

May I applaud your thorough and scientific approach. 👏🏻👏🏻☺️

NewMarmiteJar · 26/02/2025 22:59

beetr00 · 26/02/2025 10:41

@Montuaklighthouse this 🙂

That looks like an urn.

DuesToTheDirt · 26/02/2025 23:01

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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We had 2 butter dishes and broke the lid on both. They had flat bases and domed lids. Then we bought the ProCook one above, and about 2 months later... broke the blasted lid. I've given up on buying more and we just use it without a lid now.

socialdilemmawhattodo · 26/02/2025 23:17

Montuaklighthouse · 26/02/2025 21:58

Has potential!

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That is pretty much identical to my metal one. No regrets from me at all. I couldn't keep afford to keep replacing the ceramic ones that were broken.

rosyvalentine · 26/02/2025 23:26

Also recommend Le Creuset.

ooooohnoooooo · 26/02/2025 23:36

I've got. Brilliant stainless steel insulated one. Keeps butter cool in summer and the right temp in winter.

It's fab but not as pretty as a stone one.

GreenPinkYellowOrange · 26/02/2025 23:54

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!

OMG me and DH had a conversation only last weekend where we said the dream would be a butter dish that keeps the butter at a spreadable temperature! And it's a real thing!!
Yes I know we have exciting conversations 😆

TheFirstTimeEverISawYourFace · 27/02/2025 06:13

Butterpause · 26/02/2025 10:29

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

This!

LifeAtForty · 27/02/2025 07:06

just put it on a plate!

Mightymoog · 27/02/2025 07:53

GreenPinkYellowOrange · 26/02/2025 23:54

OMG me and DH had a conversation only last weekend where we said the dream would be a butter dish that keeps the butter at a spreadable temperature! And it's a real thing!!
Yes I know we have exciting conversations 😆

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honestly, buy one.
you'll thank me.

TheGlitterFairy · 27/02/2025 08:20

We have a pink Le Creuset butter dish and I love it!!Pink butter dish

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deeahgwitch · 27/02/2025 08:43

Le Creuset £42 for a butter dish and you'd need 2.
I thought my Lakeland insulated stainless steel ones at £19.99 each were extravagant. 😀

devildeepbluesea · 27/02/2025 08:44

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 found this very dish in a chazzer and it is indeed perfect.

sweetpickle2 · 27/02/2025 08:46

You can get LC for cheaper than that- https://www.charlies.co.uk/le-creuset-stoneware-butter-dish-meringue/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAt4C-BhBcEiwA8Kp0CZzW9mtb4qRf2xK83k75_Yf-4A5JNQArSqxh40sTDMOupvJYig3KdBoC4BYQAvD_BwE

I picked mine up in TKMaxx for about £15 I think.

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Montuaklighthouse · 27/02/2025 09:06

There sure is a lot of love for the Le Creuset on here!

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Pearl63 · 27/02/2025 10:28

https://butterbell.com lovely dishes and can be left on countertop so butter is always nice and soft

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 27/02/2025 11:43

BaronessBomburst · 26/02/2025 09:28

Photo:

Ohhh that is so pretty .
And I don't eat butter but I am thinking of ways to justify having this

EarlierDistraction · 27/02/2025 11:56

I keep clicking the Le Creuset links in case I change my mind but no, I still don't like them. I will never buy the flat bottom / dome top type again, the deep dish with a flat lid ones are so much better IMO.

MagpiePi · 27/02/2025 12:01

I agree with @EarlierDistraction although I've never had a dome butter dish. I would imagine that you get buttery smears everywhere when you put the lid down as it is bound to catch on the butter as you are lifiting it on and off.

BaronessBomburst · 27/02/2025 12:12

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 27/02/2025 11:43

Ohhh that is so pretty .
And I don't eat butter but I am thinking of ways to justify having this

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You could keep toffees in it.
Or cheese.
Even garlic......

EarlierDistraction · 27/02/2025 12:29

MagpiePi · 27/02/2025 12:01

I agree with @EarlierDistraction although I've never had a dome butter dish. I would imagine that you get buttery smears everywhere when you put the lid down as it is bound to catch on the butter as you are lifiting it on and off.

Yes, we also found the butter moved around when you were trying to take some off the top with the knife, so it left smears near the edge where the lid sat which got on the lid and looked unsightly. Whereas any movement is totally contained in the deep sort and it is far easier to skim some off the top instead of digging down.

deeahgwitch · 27/02/2025 12:36

Pearl63 · 27/02/2025 10:28

https://butterbell.com lovely dishes and can be left on countertop so butter is always nice and soft

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Have you to cut the butter to fit ?
I buy a half pound of butter and it's a cuboid shape.

minipie · 27/02/2025 12:48

EarlierDistraction · 27/02/2025 12:29

Yes, we also found the butter moved around when you were trying to take some off the top with the knife, so it left smears near the edge where the lid sat which got on the lid and looked unsightly. Whereas any movement is totally contained in the deep sort and it is far easier to skim some off the top instead of digging down.

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If you have the dome sort of butter dish you don’t scrape off the top like with the bowl sort. You cut a slice from the end of the butter block.

This is one of the reasons I like the dome sort, I dislike the scraping off the top as the butter looks a bit grim after a while, cutting off the end is much neater <fussy about butter>

Pearl63 · 27/02/2025 13:02

@deeahgwitch the butter gets softened and scooped into the bell bit (if that makes sense) the bottom bit is then filled with water (Ihe water only is changed every couple of days) and it means the butter does not need to be kept in the fridge and is always ready to spread - it was a French way of keeping butter before refrigeration