To butter both slices when making a sandwich ?

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DH only butters one side and says I am doing it wrong, but will accept the results of a MN vote.

YABU: You should only butter one side
YANBU: You should butter both sides

Both sides unless it's beef and salad in which case it's butter one slice and mayo plus horseradish on the other slice!

Sometimes I only butter one side if I’m putting mayo / mustard etc on the other

DD told me her MIL only butters one side, and, as MIL is very glam with a six pack I thought I might start doing the same. 😆
It doesn't really taste much different.

Sorry but this is the exact opposite of my philosophy on life! There's no such thing as 'double the quantity' because there's no limit to how much butter is delicious 😁

Both sides. Why would you only butter one side? What do you think the butter is for? (It's to insulate the bread from the filling and to help the filling stay in place.)

I know some people don't like butter and so don't spread either side. That makes more sense than buttering one side!

Also, a very thin spread of mayo on the OUTSIDE of a toasted sandwich (before toasting) is a game-changer.

Only time I don’t butter both is when having a bacon or sausage sarnie then it’s too much to have both sides with melty butter

Me too for savoury sandwiches

No butter. 😁

depends what is in the sandwich

Both sides. Maybe one side butter, other side mayo.

I'm American. I've never put butter on a sandwich.

If you mean one side of each slice YANBU.

If you mean both sides of one slice, YABU.

To me it depends on what’s in the sandwich. If it was bacon I would do one side butter, one side brown sauce or ketchup. Likewise if there was pickle involved. If it was a “wet” filling like tuna mayo or hummus I wouldn’t use any butter at all.

DP would do butter under pickle or mustard which makes me heave. I would never put butter under peanut butter on toast either, but DP would die on that hill.

Why use half the quantity, as you do? Why is using less butter better? If it’s about cost or calories, why use it at all?

Well obviously! It would get a bit messy otherwise.

It’s not about calories or cost. I just don’t see the point of buttering both slices.

I guess if I was making a sandwich to eat a few hours later and it had something like tomato in, then it would make sense to add butter on both slices to stop the tomato making the bread soggy. I never make sandwiches to eat later though. So for me there’s no point buttering both slices.

I can see from the thread that my butter habit (or lack-of-butter habit) is unusual though. I thought it was fairly normal until now! 😂

I’m sorry, what? Crumble without custard?! How can you live with this monster!?!

I’m still baffled tbh 😂 if you don’t see the point of buttering both, what’s the point of buttering one?!

Both sides always and edges completely covered.

Only one slice buttered sounds like a British Rail sandwich from the 80s - dry and disappointing.

The first BLT I had was a British Rail one. Just bacon, lettuce and tomato. I couldn't understand why DF raved about them until I tried a not BR one. Sandwich bars took a long time to get to my corner of Hertfordshire.

Both sides ✅

The one side butterers have fundamentally misunderstood the scientific mechanics of a sandwich. One has to butter both sides because bread is porous and dry. The non buttered side won’t stick to the sandwich if you don’t butter it (has anyone tried sticking a dry piece of bread to a slice of ham or cheese), or, worse will absorb the juices of anything wet, like tomato, chutney, pickle or cucumber and the whole thing will fall apart and you’ll end up with an open sandwich (buttered side) and a soggy mess on the side. In a proper sandwich you need something oily and moist on both sides to act as an adhesive and a barrier to wet stuff if the thing is not going to be a tasteless disaster. The only possible exception I can see is if you are using mayo in place of butter, as it serves the same purpose, but it still isn’t quite the same.

Plus butter tastes lovely and you only need a thin layer to perform its function.

Hear hear. 🤣

It's a personal preference.
I always butter both slices for myself, husband prefers just one slice buttered, one of the kids can't stand butter so doesn't butter either slice.

You must butter both slices otherwise its known as Ian Beale-ing the sandwhich