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😅)

It's hard to get it thin enough going downwards, much easier to just take a sliver from the top. I think it looks much neater than digging into the ends, which IMO is the messier option.

Don't anyone be tricked into trying a butter bell. They are useless! Because the cup area the butter sits in is perfectly smooth there is no friction to hold your butter up in the cup. So every day I open it to find a sad ball of butter floating in the water below.

I have the Sophie Conran/Portmerion butter dish, and another bought in a seconds china stall from Limoges, which fits better with French butter pats. But the Portmerion one is my favourite... though I now covet one of the Feldspar dishes, which are made fairly locally. No local stockist fortunately!

This is my beloved butter dish. Polish pottery from Maisie and Mac. The butter doesn't slide around or touch the lid.

@Brenna24 that one looks fab! - that's exactly the sort of thing I meant when I said the Le Crueset needed an extra lip or something to stop the butter moving around!

Thanks for the heads up @Heartbreaktuna

I've got 2 of the insulated Lakeland stainless steel one mentioned. They're classic and excellent I think.

Do yours keep the butter soft in winter and hard in the summer ?
I looked up the reviews on Lakeland and there were quite a few with the same issues I've had.
But they're better than most of the others.
They don't break or get butter on the lid.
My sister has a wooden based one with a pottery lid.
The base gets manky and the lid will break.

What you cooking first of all.

This looks suspiciously like ours
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1688203235/polish-pottery-butter-dish-with-lid?ref=share_v4_lx

When I put the lid of our Le C on the worktop, I don't put it rim down (like in Brenna's pic above), I put it down on its long side so the rim is in the air. It feels natural to do this. So if there is any butter on the rim (which mostly there isn't because there is a fair bit of clearance), it doesn't go on the worktop anyway.

We've got that one, our kitchen doesn't get very cold because we have a range cooker always on (never drops below about 17°C) so haven't really tested it at low temps but it's certainly a lot better at high temps than our old ceramic one, we never have to put it in the fridge now but used to have to in hot weather with the old one.

In fact that has reminded me to put the much disliked ceramic dome one in my charity shop pile.

What is this “thin enough” of which you speak? 😁

Never had any sticky lid issue with this one (because the lid is big enough not to touch the butter)

https://www.comaxuk.com/Products/004300010002001600050004/DEN491

I recently got a set of plastic tubs with those press at the side lock lids from sainsburys and the smallest size is perfect for butter. It is now our butter dish. Lightweight and unbreakable. Perfect for buttery little hands.

We have an electric butter dish so that the butter is always spreadable. It's fab!!

alfille.co.uk/product/cow-print-lid-with-black-base/

Thanks to this thread I have just taken delivery of an electric butter dish!

I don't understand wanting a butter dish that takes a full 250g block. How quickly do you get through butter? We have a bunch of little ramekins with bamboo lids that take about 50-60g at a time. I don't care about smears on the lids because once we've used that amount of butter it goes in the dishwasher and I get out a new clean one from the cupboard. The rest of the block stays in the fridge door in its paper wrap until needed. I would feel irrationally irritated to have a huge block-sized butter dish taking up masses of space while only containing less than 70g butter for days on end until it got finished. We do have a denby block-sized butter dish but it only gets used if we have 12 people staying eg Christmas and there's a chance we might get through a block - it sits at the back of the cupboard empty most of the time.

I have an enamel one as I break anything else. It's easy to use, goes in dishwasher and doesn't break if dropped so that's my recommendation!

We get through lots and lots!

Just coming back to say that the electric butter dish might be the best thing I've ever bought - absolutely love it (and have been eating way too much toast since getting it, just to marvel in the butter's spreadiness!)

We have an electric butter dish that keris the butter at a spreadable temperature….I love it!!

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

I’ve already posted that before. But I stand by my double recommendation!!!

@OliveHenry & @Blueuggboots

Holy shit I never heard of an electric butter dish , I think I need one in my life! My mind is blown 😮

Edit Once again I wish there was "wow" emoji in the reactions