Buttered sandwiches

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Please help me and my DP with this. He's just made a sandwich for me. Do you butter both pieces or just the 1?

Both ides lightly buttered. DH only has butter with certain fillings - not cheese for eg.

mayo, both pieces, right to very very edge. Unless it is marmite, in which case butter and not by DH, he applies it like honey which burns my mouth!

Mayo for preference, otherwise butter both pieces.

This tip looks a good way to get the butter soft enough to spread - haven't tried it yet!

Both sides!

Both. It is too dry without and some fillings like grated cheese just go everywhere without having butter to stick to.

It also prevents tomatoes from making the bread go soggy.

Sandwiches without butter would require a moist filling to be palatable for me.

A slice of ham between 2 slices of dry bread is stingy and hard to get down.

Both buttered. I don't really like sandwiches anyway but dry bread makes them even worse.

I've only ever known crappy cafes not butter bread and I always thought it was stinginess. Never met anyone in RL who doesn't use butter.

Just one side.

Why just one side?

Absolutely none

I do both. I also knew (from MN) that some people did neither. Never in a million years thought there was a middle way of just the one slice being buttered :)

Both but spread very thinly, right to the edge with real butter and definitely not the abomination that is easy spread butter. There is no sandwich filling that is not enhanced by the delicious salty goodness of butter.

I LOVE sandwiches, my favourite, favourite food. My family are all away this weekend and I have ordered a finger sandwich tray from M&S party food service. That is my breakfast, lunch and tea for the next 2 days. Perhaps with a bag or two of crisps thrown in. Bliss and no washing up.

Depends on the filling. If it's cheese and Branston I'd only butter the slice immediately touching the cheese. If it's a crisp sandwich (with Walkers cheese and onion of course) it has to be both sides. If it's a salad sandwich with lettuce, tomatoes and mayo/salad cream then no butter at all as it's wet enough.

Just the one side is buttered but the other side will have mayo, mustard etc on it. Like another PP, I dislike dry sandwiches.

Neither. Though I'm the only one in our house like that. Dh and kids have both.

Only one side. Enough to stop it being dry but buttering both is a waste and extra calories. It doesn't add anything to the sandwich.

Neither. DH doesn't like it and has converted me too. Now think any sort of butter/marg/mayo is oversweet, grim and ruins the taste of your sandwich.

Neither here

Depends on filling. Both sides need something to avoid dry bread, but one side could be butter and the other pickle/chutney/mustard/etc

I've always done both however my husband only does one side and I have recently started to copy him due to pure laziness. I'm generous with the butter to make up for it

If I'm making bacon sandwiches I use cream cheese (Philadelphia).

Argh, butter on sandwiches is on my top ten most hated foods. Especially if a sandwich ingredient is alway a fat, like mayo or avocado. Never "double fat"! And it just doesn't go with spicier sandwich ingredients. I've never understood it. The only time butter goes in a sandwich is when it's a jam sandwich.

Butter both sides thinly

IMO butter adds something to the sandwiches. I would never use margarine (shudder).

Both. Unless one piece of bread will be getting mayo/pickle/salad cream/etc. Then that piece gets only that. The only time no bread lubricant (as above) is acceptable is when the filling is mayo heavy...tuna mayo, chicken and sweetcorn mayo, etc.