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To ask you to show me your butter dish

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MixedFamily · 23/01/2025 07:50

Following from the (ver popular!) thread about butter I started s few days ago, I decided I want a butter dish to start keeping part of the butter outside the fridge.
Need inspo, how about a show me a pic of your butter dish thread? 😆

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HippyKayYay · 23/01/2025 16:21

Had it for years though...

HotCrossBunplease · 23/01/2025 16:23

This is such a lovely thread, and very appropriate for someone with my username!

LionAndEmperor13 · 23/01/2025 16:24

HotCrossBunplease · 23/01/2025 16:23

This is such a lovely thread, and very appropriate for someone with my username!

I just had a hot cross bun!

WithASpider · 23/01/2025 16:26

Mine is the LC too, in Navy. It was a Christmas present a few years ago!

DD1 is at university and has one with bees on from The Range. Cost about £8.

Youbutterbelieve · 23/01/2025 16:27

I've changed my user name because this is outing (yep seriously).

My sister broke my old, tasteful butter dish and replaced it with this monstrosity. Which for some reason I still use despite a) the aforementioned hideousness and b) it won't hold a full block of butter!

To ask you to show me your butter dish
Springflowersmakeforbetterhours · 23/01/2025 16:29

Cost me £1 in a charity shop. Also have the honey pot...

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MrsJHernandez · 23/01/2025 16:30

Youbutterbelieve · 23/01/2025 16:27

I've changed my user name because this is outing (yep seriously).

My sister broke my old, tasteful butter dish and replaced it with this monstrosity. Which for some reason I still use despite a) the aforementioned hideousness and b) it won't hold a full block of butter!

What even is that?! A horseshoe? A cowboy hat? 🤠

GentlyAnarchistic · 23/01/2025 16:31

I collect it. Mine is blue.

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mollymazda · 23/01/2025 16:33

i have 2 identical ones, one for in use and one for the dishwasher... very sad i know

BlueRabbitWasNaughty · 23/01/2025 16:37

I have this one currently from Amazon but keep breaking the lids (granite worktops and china butter dishes don't seem to go well together) so always have a spare in stock.

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User781 · 23/01/2025 16:38

I have this one. We've had it five or six years, it's really sturdy, looks good as new, and I love it. canterburypottery.com/shop/product/butter-dish/

eatreadsleeprepeat · 23/01/2025 16:42

Check out TKMaxx/Homesense if you can get to one. We got out Le Crueset one there for about £20.

BusyCaz · 23/01/2025 16:42

Never realised how expensive butter jars were lol

PumpkinSpicePie · 23/01/2025 16:45

LionAndEmperor13 · 23/01/2025 16:24

I just had a hot cross bun!

So did I. A blueberry and lemon one

Happyher · 23/01/2025 16:46

Bought for me by my MIL about 30 year ago.

To ask you to show me your butter dish
jmh740 · 23/01/2025 16:49

I've got one like this I got years ago from Bury market

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CleansUpButWouldPreferNotTo · 23/01/2025 16:50

I was given this one for Christmas - it's lovely but doesn't go with anything else I have.

I'm contemplating returning it before the extended returns window closes next week. But feel guilty as it was from a good friend who thinks my kitchen needs 'cheering up'. I disagree and love my plain ware.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ceramic-European-Style-Dessert-Vintage-Container/dp/B0CKX3CH7S/ref=asc_df_B0CKX3CH7S

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Sacredhandbag · 23/01/2025 16:53

This is mine.

Pretty boring and I'm jealous of all the pretty ones. But I also like to be able to always see how much butter I have 😄

To ask you to show me your butter dish
ErinAoife · 23/01/2025 16:58

Got this one

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WhatHoJeeves · 23/01/2025 17:02

WearyLady · 23/01/2025 09:12

I'd suggest quite the reverse. I find that in cold weather like we're having now, the butter is hard and moves around on a flat base. I have both types of butter dishes (I.e. flat base and container) and I much prefer the container type. I have no problems getting butter out when there's very little left.

I prefer the flat base/domed top due to terrible memories of my in-laws constantly putting a new block of butter in their deep dish without ever washing it. I had rancid butter at their house so often I can still taste it now many years after they died! The trauma!

BusyCaz · 23/01/2025 17:03

Ordered myself a butter dish and a butter knife, I now feel officially grown up 😆