BUTTER DISHES

[Rocktheboot]

Show us your butter dishes!!

mine is really boring. I'll find a picture

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

(cont) this house.

(don't know what happened to the end of the sentence - I did type it.

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

That's mine, too Sweetypie!

I love him!

(Wish those adverts were still on.)

[HumberElla]

No butter dish here. I’ve broken two so am not allowed one now.

I went on a house party/weekend away once where guests all shared the shopping and brought meals. The person in charge of breakfast food said they would bring butter for toast.

They brought spread. Entirely ruined breakfast. Never again!

[SweetieP1e]

Just read yours Schadenfreude!

And yes, I am sooooo envious that you’ve got the toast rack!!!

[Weebitawks]

Snap whisperingJesse (thought jealous of you finding it in a charity shop)

I've got a few bits matching (basically got the utensil holder when we got married then for carried away at the Le Cruset outlet shop)

[SweetieP1e]

My kids aren’t allowed near mine. My husband is very aware that it is to be treated as if priceless

[Charleymouse]

Mine is orange and was a Mother's Day present a few years ago.

[nononever]

it's kind of like this but cream coloured with 'butter' written on either side

That is exactly my butter dish!

[JoxerGoesToStuttgart]

I was very stupid for a long time. I used to buy butter and put it in the cupboard and then get fed up every time it turned to mush half way through the block but then if I kept it in the fridge it was too hard. It was only when I got a job on a homewares store and saw all the lovely butter dishes on display that it dawned on me what my problem was I appreciate my butter tub (lovely butter dish was a victim of gravity X tiles) every time I take it out of the cupboard. Great invention

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

I have the same one as @BarbaraofSeville and a white one with a cow sitting on the top.

[nononever]

I love that whale shaped butter dish!

[NoSquirrels]

SoundOfSilence that is the butter dish of my childhood!

I'm loving the butter dish examples. So much prettier than a Flora tub, anyway!

[YetAnotherSpartacus]

Do the French ones work? I always imagine the butter falling into the water.

[CravingCheese]

@smemorata

It does. It means that you cooked with butter (instead of a cheaper butter substitutes). Which then evolved to mean everything is good. At least that's what I believe to remember from school....


(I seem to remember doing a unit about sayings aka Sprichwörter in high school.)

[CosmiaGreen]

Only on MN

[Cornberry]

I love butter dishes! This is our current one :)

[TheQueef]

Twosoups making tug boat noises while making toast is how I get through breakfast time.
I feel sorry for lesser dish owners.

[JoxerGoesToStuttgart]

Oh I just remembered I have this dinky little one that I never use (bought from previous homewares store). (Knife for scale)

[smemorata]

@Cravingcheese - thank you! I like it even more now with that explanation.

@Cornberry - you win the thread! That butter dish is a thing of beauty.

[Mephisto]

@ImNotYourGranny

I don't have one, but if I did it'd be a French one like this.

Me too! No idea how they work though. Does the water touch the butter?

[TheQueef]

That's perfect for my crackers Jox I might invest in one.
Neater on my tray.

[Boireannachlaidir]

Sage green ceramic with blah blah blah can't remember the name pottery company written on the side of the lid.

Why are the butter haters on all the butter threads?

Go on, someone please start a reconstituted goo shiteslime processed to shit spread thread for them!

[ImNotYourGranny]

Me too! No idea how they work though. Does the water touch the butter?

Yes, the top of the butter is in contact with the water, but it doesn't matter as they don't mix.

[CassandraCross]

Ha SchadenfreudePersonified - not only do I have the Lurpak butter dish and toast rack but I have two Lurpak egg cups as well!

I have four butter dishes - the Lurpak one, a Portmerion one, a Border Fine Arts one and the one I'm currently using which is Le Creseut one like Charleymouse's but in grey.

Margarine or any form of butter substitute does not darken the doors of the Cross home.

[Damntheman]

Now I feel inadequate keeping mine in its paper wrapping in the fridge door :p I may need that whale one.. where does one find a whale butter dish??