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

If you are going to butter the bread, then obviously butter both of them.
And it absolutely needs to be butter though not marg spread.
I dont have butter on mine and tbh - it is dry!

I still have a Breville. I usually have cheese and spring onion, butter both slices on one side, add the filling, then put the sandwich in the Breville buttered sides out. Yum.

That’s only because of food labelling restrictions which have been in place for years to protect marketing by dairy producers. It’s got nothing to do with safety or quality.

The anti-UPF and organic food fads massively misrepresent the science of a normal diet. There’s no such thing as bad food, just bad diets.

I havent even mentioned good or bad diets. Its not a belief of mine

Its not butter though and for those of us who love butter you dont want it sullied by other things. I wouldnt give kids rubbish instead of the pure stuff.

And as for the comment 'its only for food labelling restrictions' - YES BECAUSE ITS NOT BUTTER

Its like complaining about those pesky apple growers refusing to allow pears to be called apples. Erm because they're not apples.

Oh well, my apologies. I thought you were suggesting that it can’t be called butter because it’s somehow less wholesome as a product, not that it just doesn’t meet the labelling requirements to be called butter, whatever it tastes like.

I’m also a big fan of the taste of butter but I do prefer salted Lurpak spreadable to unsalted butter of any type.

This thread has made me want to make my own butter now that I will spread only on 1 slice of bread but right up to the edges

Depends on the filling. If it’s say tuna/chicken mayo I don’t put butter or spread on at all. It doesn’t need it. Cheese, ham etc I’d put it on both slices.

Those things are not only protective but do not cause high cholesterol.

Please do your research for your own sake and not just to be correct on an internet forum. Nothing good comes from that for you.

Check here (and many other sources) confirming dietary cholesterol is a myth: https://www.cdc.gov/cholesterol/about/myths.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9143438/

Best of health to you!

I think you're confusing a diet high in cholesterol with a diet high in saturated fat as causing an increase in bad cholesterol. There's a huge difference and indeed that myth has been debunked, ie people with high cholesterol are no longer recommended to avoid prawns or eggs. But sadly there is a lot of evidence to show a direct correlation between a diet high in saturated fat, like full fat animal products, and an increase in LDL.

And as that clever link on myths you posted says, you can and you should reduce your intake of saturated fats in order to lower your LDL. It works, as it did for me.

Please do your research for your own sake and not just to be correct on an internet forum. Nothing good comes from that for you. 😉

Not confused at all. Wish you all the best in whatever condiments you choose!

Butter both sides with real butter, not spread.

Technically almost all spreads are a form of UPF though, because they almost all use extracted or refined oil produced via industrial processing, not simple vegetable oil, so keep them soft. In the case of Lurpak spreadable it contains refined rapeseed oil.

It’s obviously not butter, as that can only contain milk, and salt in the case of salted butter.

It's not butter...

I used to butter both side, now i only do one side, no difference to taste although I don't like it thick unless just toast etc, then I put loads on!

Depends on the filling. Today I had a ham sandwich and used no butter, but mayo instead. But i did use it on both slices of bread. If i were using butter, it should be thinly spread, right to the edges.

I don't always want to stop the filling going into the bread - it makes the flavour more. But if I making sandwiches myself, it's usually for immediate consumption. Haven't done sandwiches for a picnic in ages.

Prefer thicker butter on toast, as that should melt in.

YABU for thinking that “spread” is better for you than whole butter.

Me too - never heard of buttering just one side!

I dont butter mine and nor do my kids but, then then are dry and fall apart!

does this make you transphobic?

more seriously, kids need natural fat for brain development.

I butter both sides thinly if I have time, or one side thickly if I’m short on time

That makes no sense but I love it 🤣

Team DH OP, sorry

It’s the memory of a spread called ‘Gold’ that makes me shudder. My goodness that was rank.

Spread is awful- I’m shocked anyone is still buying it tbh. Real butter- both sides of the sandwich is the only way tbh.

i don't spread bread at all, i hate it! i put a thin swipe of mayo in my sandwiches

Nope am Scottish and dont know anyone who doesn't spread both to the edges and both slices