To not like it so hard

[GlitterUnicornsAndAllThatJazz]

I'm talking butter.

It pisses me off how hard it is straight out the fridge, but someone I know says that butter dishes are "poncey" and leaving the butter dish out of the fridge to be permanently soft is "minging".

So whats the solution?

Butter dish. All year round. Glass one from Ikea. I secretly quite like butter that’s on the turn after being left out in summer. I’m a bit grim.

I'm balking at the price of butter. Just tried aldi's own lurpack spreadable. Mostly butter with rapeseed oil. I love butter but this stuff is really tasty. And I don't need a butter dish.

One cannot believe one does not have a butter dish

We use ours the other way up, which I realise is probably wrong, but it probably just means that both DP and I were badly brought up as DM and MIL both use theirs the same - ie the covered tray way not the dish with a lid way IYSWIM.

You can actually buy both types of butter dish, it's just a preference.

X-rated title

Use a cheese grater!!!

Butter Bell

I’ve started to keep my butter in the wine fridge. Not as cold. Keeps it spreadable.

(Clearly a shit wine fridge!)

Go vegan.

It’s not about the salt, it’s fat content. It’s fine to leave it out in a butter dish. I found this out after many wasted hours microwaving small bits of butter.
I even leave it out here in Aus where it’s considerably warmer. won’t mention the time I left it on the table in direct sunlight and came back to entirely liquid butter all over the place

Go vegan

No thank you

I even leave it out here in Aus where it’s considerably warmer.

We are too. My mum insists that it’s fine to leave butter out. It’s bloody not! It goes rancid in days.

Is this one time when soft it good?

We had a Le Crueset one, then we had a cow one. Now we use this dish from Ikea upside down as the kids kept breaking the other ones.

Butterdish.

I don't even put butter in a butter dish- ours broke and I couldn't be arsed to replace it. We haven't died or anything.

mummyoflittledragon soft is definitely good this time! 😁

This thread has blown my tiny mind

Firstly, it has never occurred to me that you could cut a lump off the main block of butter and only have a bit out at a time. A Maze Ing. mind is totally blown!

My butter does go rancid after a day out of the fridge so this inspired suggestion seems perfect. Except, the question remains, why on earth did I never think of this before?!

Second is the clever idea of using a vegetable peeler on fridge-cold butter. I spend ages attempting to get wafer thin curls from my knife which a peeler could do so much easier! I feel less embarrassed I didn’t think of this though somehow

@WellThisIsShit
Agreed. As a result of this thread I will be getting a butter dish and having a little out at a time.

Cheers MN!

Butter dish here too

Mine is a cow

I buy it in block form and cut half off at a time

Would this be overkill?

Hee hee GlitterUnicorn at least I’m not the only one to be new to this revelation :)

Y'all are too fancy. Mine is kept on a saucer in the microwave so the "germs can't get at it" .

I have the Lakeland butter dish too. Game changer.