To not butter both sides of a sandwich?

[RoaryLion1]

Please help settle a (light-hearted) dispute between me and DH.

Buttering sandwiches for child’s birthday party (with spread, not actual butter, before anyone worries about kids arteries). I butter one slice of bread only and leave a little gap between buttered area and edge of slice, so spread doesn’t ooze out over the edge. DH butters both slices of bread AND spreads butter right to the edges of the slice. DH says my sandwiches are too dry, I say his are clarted in spread and too greasy.

Obviously how much butter you apply is down to personal preference - but DH maintains that I am in the minority and most people butter both slices and butter right to the edge.

YABU - DH is right, only buttering a single side of the sandwich is wrong
YANBU - one side of butter is sufficient

I use the spreadable. What’s wrong with it?

Okay, I’ve read your update, spreadable butter is real butter with a little bit of oil to make it softer. It isn’t margarine. So that’s fine 😁 still unreasonable for not buttering both sides of the bread though

I did live in the UK for a time during my student days, so I am familiar with the concept of putting butter on sandwiches, but unlike tea-drinking, it was not a concept that I brought back home with me. 😀

What fresh hell is this. Half buttered sandwiches? Yuk. I've never heard anything like it in my life.

There is nothing wrong with real butter, 'spread' is just nasty ultra processed crap.
And the whole point of the butter us so the bread isnt dry and the sandwich sticks together nicely, why on earth would you skip buttering one slice and not even spread the butter to the edge of the bread! So mean/stingy

Real butter, both slices, up to the edge.
It tastes great, holds the filling in, moistens the bread but stops wetter ingredients making the bread soggy.

DH doesn't do butter. His beans on toast is boggingly soggy 🤢

It’s a personal choice.

I prefer 100% butter, but probably use less of it over a week (say) than some people as I don’t eat much bread.

@RoaryLion1 are you Scottish? I am and it wouldn’t occur to me to butter both sides.
I hope I haven’t just reinforced the stereotype that we are tight up here

I only butter one side, but I do it liberally, so I guess I am half on your side and half on your DHs 🥲

You should be grateful you don’t have to eat my husbands sandwiches - they are truly tragic. He doesn’t butter the bread at all, yesterday he had brown bread, no butter and two slices of wafer thin chicken. That’s it.

I only butter one side but would always use butter / spreadable butter so I didn’t vote

I only butter one slice but spread it to the crust.

I am! DH is English. This might explain it!

One side butterer here. Clarity spreading though with proper butter none of that spread shite allowed

For clarity, it's clarty

Yours sound yuck. Also, buy real butter. Margarine is disgusting

My DH only butters on side as he argues mayo on the other side is sufficient. What actually happens is the mayo disappears into the bread rather than being held on top by the butter

My DH makes the driest sandwiches where you also can’t taste the mayo. Both my kids sigh when he offers to make their lunch and ask if I can do it instead.

Team DH all the way!

Or too wet if - it's a very moist filling that really needs a buttery barrier to stop making one slice soggy.

Never heard of anyone doing sandwiches like that tbh. I butter both sides thinly and right up to edges. Never had butter squidging out the sides, and the butter helps keep the filling where it should be.

Never heard of anyone doing sandwiches like that tbh. I butter both sides thinly and right up to edges. Never had butter squidging out the sides, and the butter helps keep the filling where it should be.

When you say ’a little bit of oil’ the two I looked at are only 50% butter, with about 23% - 29% oil and the rest water and salt.

Lurpak Slightly Salted Spreadable Butter
Full Product Name:
Blended Spread 75% (52% milk fat & 23% rapeseed oil).
Ingredients:
Butter (64%) (Milk), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Lactic Culture (Milk), Salt
About 25% water, perhaps? No wonder it spreads easily.

Anchor Spreadable Blend of Butter and Rapeseed Oil
Full Product Name:
Blended spread 70% (41% milk fat, 29% rapeseed oil)
Ingredients
Anchor Butter (50%) (Milk), Rapeseed Oil (29%), Water, Salt (1.1%), Colour (Beta Carotene)
Almost 20% water, then.

Contrast with M&S Softer Butter
Ingredients
Butter (Milk), Salt (1.8%), Minimum 80% Milk Fat

President French Unsalted Spreadable
Ingredients
Butter (Milk), Single Cream (Milk), Cultures

President French Slightly Salted Speadable
Ingredients
Butter (Milk), Single Cream (Milk), Salt (1.3%), Cultures (Milk)

More examples of both here.

The ubiquity of mayonnaise wasn’t a thing when I grew up in the ‘50s, and pickle would be at most on only one side of the sandwich, so if you didn’t have butter or marge next to the bread the sandwich would be very dry.

I suppose we could have used Heinz Salad Cream instead of mayonnaise?
But that went on Salads, not in sandwiches.

I don't butter any sides of bread. I'm definitely in a minority. I hated spread since I was little and still do.

I never use spread, its not that good for you. Butter all the way to the edge of both slices using a tea spoon, purly as I find it spreads the butter easier.

I suppose it wouldn't matter if you were eating the sandwich straight away but I always thought that some kind of oily spread/butter/mayo was needed in order to stop the bread from going soggy if made with certain fillings.

Team dh unless you are putting mustard/horseradish sauce on the other side.

We have a one vs two side debate on our house too. I'm with you on just doing one side otherwise all you can taste is butter. I do both of I'm making it for DH though because I know he prefers it.

Having said that, you have to butter all the way to the edge or you get a horrible dry bit. Also proper butter all the way. Spread is horrible!