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

Wrong I'm afraid. There's loads of evidence that saturated fats increase LDL levels (bad cholesterol). non-UPF is not always better, and this is one of those cases (if you have high cholesterol of course).
And I know that some people make their own bread and buy Jasons etc, but we all know the vast majority don't!

YABU to use “spread”🤢

Thank goodness you mentioned that, Id somehow missed the 71 other posts saying the same thing😂

I do it your way op, butter the bottom side, then add the fillings then put the unbuttered top on.

However, proper butter is much better for you than 'spread'. I thought everyone knew this already.

Not wrong at all. Butter is better than spread. Butter is not UPF. You do you.

YABU to use spread, because butter is healthier and nicer. And I am team DH. Hope it’s a lovely birthday party 🎂

Only 71?😂
Thats what happens when I’m being lazy and jump straight to commenting without reading the whole thread😂😂

I have always buttered (proper butter) both sides.

You're both wrong of course. You don't butter BOTH sides of the bread,you butter one side of each slice, then any filling goes in. My DH puts far too much butter on bread,toast,I like a scraping.(, I spent my childhood on a fat free diet) My oldest DD,spreads it so thinly,we used to say she went to the British Rail Catering School! yes, it's butter.

YABU for using spread! We only have butter, better to use in moderation, much nicer taste and no additives or unknown ingredients.

Team DH. Butter both sides and filling in middle.

Edit to add must use butter not some chemical spread!

Well depends what you're talking about! No point being evangelical about UPF if you don't understand why it's bad for you and what the tardeoffs may be. In this case, not being UPF doesn't make it better for you than low saturated fat. Just science!

I'm wondering now if I added rapeseed or olive oil to my real butter would that work to spread from the fridge? My real butter has suffered a bit of unwanted melting during the heatwave when left out on the side in the butterdish. Hmm, how would I do that, just mash it in or what. Ah forget it, weather's cooling down now anyway so butter in the dish will be ok again I reckon. But still, for research purposes.... ha ha!

I know very well the info. Have researched it for years. Buy organic and from the farm, for that reason. Eat butter and full fat everything. UPF and low fat foods are not good for us. My cholesterol is optimal, no diabetes of any sort, no high blood pressure, weight on point, no medications. But, like I said, you do you!

Nah, I'm just scarred from a childhood of globs of bland, low-fat flora light dripping off the sides of insipid sandwiches.

I much prefer the saltiness of butter, and it melts better.

I don't eat vast amounts of bread due to low soya tolerance issues, so when I do I want it to taste its best.

I only butter one side (I'm English not Scottish) but only if there was something 'wet' like mayo to go up against the other side and stick it together! If it's a toastie I'd butter both outsides and not the inside at all.

Go up to the edges!! You do NOT need a gap around the edge.

#teamDH and only proper butter.

Scottish too and I don't know anyone who only butters one slice in a sandwich. Or doesn't butter to the edges.

Always make sure the correct side of each slice is buttered too and for sandwich platters - cut the crusts off the top and bottom before cutting into triangles.

YABVU for using spread in the first place instead of proper butter and then for not buttering properly both sides and to the edges.

Sorry! I missed your post about using Lurpak.
I take back what I said about you using spread. I hate it when people don't RTFT! 🙈

Strictly speaking spreadable butter is a UPF the same as other spreads, because it uses an industrial vegetable oil blend to change the physical texture of the butter. But there are plenty of people who either don’t understand that, or think that’s being too strict on the definition of an UPF. But it’s clearly not butter in the traditional sense, and for that reason I am with the purists. And what sort of person only butters one side of a sandwich, unless of course it’s an open sandwich ;)

To be fair, if you’re not going to eat the crust there’s no point buttering them. Perhaps the habit of not buttering right to the edge comes from those who just cut the crusts off :)

The sandwich police should lock you up

I would be most unimpressed in a one sided 'spread' sandwich

Why give your children that shit?

Spread butter, generously, to the edges, on BOTH pieces of bread.

Fair enough, you're lucky you don't have high cholesterol, but that's genetics not because some how your organic full fat milk and butter are protecting you from it!

Its not butter though. So yes the comments about 'spread' are valid. I dont think anyone assumed she was using margarine, mainly given Im not sure I can remember the last time I actually saw 'marg'

Spread is in the shops under the guise of 'spreadable butter'

Its not butter.