to butter both slices of bread in a sandwich?

[IsabellaMilborne]

Could you help with this debate, which arose during the frantic buttering of sandwiches for a children's party?

My Dsis thinks that you only butter one slice of bread in a sandwich; I think you need the buttery stickiness on both slices of bread, to make sure that the top slice adheres to the filling properly, and to make it tastier and less dry.

Can you help me prove that I'm being eminently reasonable here...?

Both of course, just one is where madness lies!!
I am open to one butter and one mayo/pickle/chutney/mustard etc but both sides must have something

Both, unless you use mayo instead for some sandwiches. And always butter, never ever that grim spread/marg stuff- that just ruins a sandwich!

Both unless I am using cream cheese then I just do the one side as the cc is sticky enough. I butter right up the to the corners too which not everyone does either I find

...perhaps that's why my DD has always eaten her crusts as they are moist and not dry

I don't use anything unless it's mayo to hold together grated cheese or relish because I fancy the taste. I was brought up like that and honestly didn't realise that most people butter their sandwiches. If you are a butterer however, I'd have thought both sides would be the norm.

I was brought up to do only one side as that's what my mum always did, (am sure it was to make the butter go further as we were skint!!)

It was totally alien to me when I met dh that he insisted it was both, (he also spreads it too thick as well, I cant eat his sandwiches, it tastes vile!).
So continued to butter my own on one slice and his and the dc's on both.

My dad eats his sandwiches dry as he doesn't like butter.

Both

I only butter one side. Thought it odd when our au pair started buttering both sides, thought it was an Icelandic thing! She's away now and I'm back to buttering one side only - as others have said, leaves a dry piece of bread to add mayo or chutney.

Just the one here too.

It's the 'base', then filling goes on top, next a squirt of something like salad cream or a 'wet' product-think beetroot, gherkin etc

DH is a man of both buttered. My argument is how do you then know which side is the top?!

Usually both slices. Sticks the top to the filling, especially if its something dryish, like cheese or sliced meat. Slightly waterproofs the bread if it's something wettish, like tuna-mayo or sliced tomato.

But if I'm just piling up stuff for a sandwich I'm going to eat straight away, then I don't usually bother buttering the top slice.

Usually both sides, unless we have hummus in the fridge, then one side with butter and the other with hummus

Both. Especially with more basic sandwiches

Both or neither. Neither in the event of a spreadable filling. It needs to be thin, though, I like butter but don't want it to taste stronger than the filling.

Both - whether you're using butter or mayo (I do use mayo only when that's my choice, which it is for certain fillings like chicken) you need to put the bread coating substance on BOTH sides, absolutely.

I like tomatoes (plum, tinned) on toast for breakfast. Once, in the middle of an enthusiastic run at Weight Watchers, I thought 'maybe I could just do without the butter on the toast, and put tomatoes straight on it'. It was claggy to the max. That's what an unbuttered sandwich is like, even half-unbuttered one.

Both sides unless it is a bacon sandwich and then no butter at all. My pet hate is buying a bacon sandwich and being given it with butter. I can't eat it. Why don't they ask...

Butter on both slices, whatever the filling, but amount of butter reduced or increased depending on type of filling. E.g. ham - meagre smear, but plenty of mustard; marmite - liberal smear to enable lots of marmite marbling. It's an exact science which requires years of testing and experience to perfect.

Both.

she - nooooo, bacon sandwiches need oozy butter and mustard melting from the heat. And now I need one.

Both, and always to the corners.

Whoever said about arteries - there is increasing evidence that it is not butter and other 'real' fats that cause artery damage, but fake processed foods.

Bacon sandwiches need marmalade.

Mmmmmmm

I butter one side for me as I have mayo/ chutney/ hummus which is wet enough. But for dd I butter both sides otherwise her sandwiches fall apart when she waves them around

I hate butter in sandwiches (or indeed anything that doesn't result in the butter melting) but I'd butter both sides for someone else. Always thought that was the norm!

Both, anything else is sacrilege.

Gag. This is the reason I cannot abide store-bought sandwiches in the UK. Butter has no place on sandwiches.

Gag.

Since starting to diet last week, I butter one side. It tastes no different.