BUTTER DISHES

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Show us your butter dishes!!

mine is really boring. I'll find a picture

Is that a particularly terfy butter dish sashh? It seems to be blocked.

My MIL does the small portion in a ramekin thing dudsville. It’s like rationing. Makes you feel like you can’t be liberal with it.

Surely where you store your butter (fridge or out in kitchen) has bugger all to do with where you live and everything to do with your house temperature?
Ours is most definitely too warm to keep butter out of the fridge - it goes unpleasantly soft and melty. Also, I love slicing butter and putting great big slabs of it on my toast and crumpets etc.
But the butter dishes are indeed gorgeous.

That’s what I do, Venus. Except I use a small flat dish for the same purpose. When I was a child, we didn’t have a fridge, so there was no reason not to put the whole block in a butter dish. This habit continued long after we got a fridge. It was only as an adult that I questioned this and started just cutting what was likely to be used to put out in a dish . I can then put this in the microwave to soften. I’m quite surprised that so many mumsnetters use these large old fashioned butter dishes.

I've been awsy. What's all the fuss about butter?

Flora (the company that produce it, Upfield Global) have pulled out of advertising with Mumsnet because we're spreading hate about trans people not spreading love with margarine subsitutes as we should.

Upfield Global do not like uppity women.

But we all prefer butter anyway.

blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/mumsnet-flora-and-the-spread-of-the-corporate-culture-wars/

Mine.... posh eh?

I once got slagged off on another thread for liking my butter in curls. Apparently it was trying too hard like a cheap B&B. Gosh.
An advantage is that once curled butter straight out of the fridge softens very quickly, v useful in hot weather.

But the butter dish isn't for serving butter that will get used at that meal.

It's for putting your whole butter pack in and using every day. I don't transport it anywhere, though maybe to the table at breakfast if I have guests, and it definitely does not need two hands.

As I live on my own it takes me a while to get through a pack of butter so I do tend to only put half in, keep the other half in the fridge, and keep spare butter packs in the freezer. As soon as the second half goes in the dish, a spare goes from the freezer to the fridge.

Here's mine! £1 from Asda, my 2 year old dd chose it

I love butter curls! I am useless at making them though.

I used to use an empty ferrero rocher tub,

Phillistine!

I love my butter dish (Denby linen)

But now I really want the Lurpak one, with matching egg cups!

oh oh oh....so much want on this thread

I want the Le creuset one, and a fancy french butter bell and the one with stars on!

I have three, two white china cow ones and a green denby one I got in a charity shop
One of the cow ones is tall and thin so the butter has to go on its side

I leave them out all year round, but it's never that hot in my kitchen in the darkest north! I do sometimes only put in half of the butter if it is high summer as I hate it when it goes too warm

I did have an old glass art deco one like someone already posted, but it got dropped, I like to have a proper handle on them the cow ones are very easy to get a hold of!
Also had a nice glass one with a lid, but that exploded in the dishwasher, so I did not replace that one!

I need to get a butter dish, I was going to pop into Asda and get a cheapie but this thread has inspired me to do a bit of online shopping around. I quite fancy this one but WIBU to spend £28 on a butter dish?

This is mine, had it for a couple of years now.

I've changed my mind and I'm going to get this one - think I might splash out and buy the matching toast rack as well because I love toast racks.

I don’t get the toast racks, surely you need to butter the toast within 3.5 seconds of coming out of the toaster to ensure superb meltyness 🤔

I’m quite surprised that so many mumsnetters use these large old fashioned butter dishes.

@CecilyP but a lot of the ones posted are modern too and anyway what with the "old fashioned" retro ones still being in use is great for anyone with environmental concerns and all that...

Unlike shitty fake I can't believe it's not misogyny Flora and the like. "Plant based" = processed to buggery with slick advertising and getting round food labelling laws to market it as health. Hope the research into diabetes type 2 & polyunsaturated fats is coming along nicely. There's no such thing as sustainable palm oil and Flora know this. I'm off to research what else they make too.

I hope I can't believe it's not misogyny becomes a trending hashtag on twatter too, every time they post about their vile-tasting "product".

I've got the blue Denby one shown upthread and this beauty from Cosmo China

I smashed the lid of my butter dish getting it out of the dishwasher this morning! I was traumatised as I trailed round my small town to find that one.

YANBU at all @morningtoncrescent62. That is a very nice butter dish indeed and worth every penny.

Toast racks are essential because, like most food, toast needs to rest. It is easier to butter after a little rest, not long though as the butter must melt and then you don't get condensation on your plate.
What's with all the Lurpak love? We used to have that in the 70s when there wasn't much choice but there is so much delicious uk made butter, why import? (If you are in the uk of course).
Btw M&S Softer Butter isn't mixed with anything but I'm going back to proper blocks after reading this thread

DM has a beautiful brushed stainless steel butter dish. It dates from the 70's. I've been looking for a similar one for over 20 years.
I've just requested a butter curler for Christmas.

Ours was made by BIL, it is stoneware and looks like a loaf of bread

@morningtoncrescent62 if you’re taking bites, I bite for the first one you linked to. I think that’s lovely! The second one isn’t my taste at all - which isn’t especially relevant to what you buy 🤣

@venus WTAF is that zombie monstrosity. I’d go back to being vegan if I had to use butter out of that 🙄🤮

I can’t remember who posted the brown cottage one - but I have the cookie jar that was my Grandparents!

Such a huge mixture on here, fab thread!!