I can't butter bread

[Hurr1cane]

I'm not even joking. I can do toast but whenever I try to butter bread all the bread breaks and I just end up with horrible lumps of butter everywhere and holey bread

why can't I butter bread?

Your butter is too cold.

Leave the butter out til it softens a bit, usually helps.

Either your butter is too cold or your bread is too dry.

The butter seems soft. I've tried leaving it out and doing the 'scrape it a few times with a knife to make it even more soft' but I still get holes in the bread. It's a fresh pack of brown bread from spar today.

butter doesn't need to be kept in the fridge

Doesn't it?

DP seems to manage with the same butter and bread

posted too soon. If you keep it in the fridge then your butter will be too cold to spread

Great thread title. Can just imagine a daily mail style sad face whilst saying it.

nah course not, butter has been around much longer than fridges

I think it's your butter temperature. Can you take a knob, that's a technical butter term I'll have you know, put it on the microwave for literally three seconds, then spread.

Or put it on your radiator.

Do you have a butter dish? Preferably with a cow on. Or Douglas.

Bread too doughy? Try different sort of loaf? I second the butter in microwave for few seconds.

I do keep it in the fridge! I'll try warning it then!

I don't have a butter dish, or a bread bin.

Hahaha daily mail sad face! I can cook reasonably well but I just can't butter bread. I don't like butter, but DP does and I was trying to make him a bacon butty this morning and shouted up "why don't you want toast? I can't butter bread!"

Leave the butter out. In a china butter dish (cooler than plastic or metal). Ours holds a whole packet of butter, which lasts over a week, and doesn't go rancid even in this warm weather.

I don't think we'd use a whole tub if butter in a week though :/ I don't like it, DS doesn't eat much that uses it and DP is only around one day a week ish.

cheap bread and cold butter are a recipe for disaster!

I started getting spreadable butter though, which makes life a wee bit simpler

The butter is lurpack spreadable, the bread is warburtons whole meal bread, if that makes a difference? I'm going to practice bread buttering later

our lurpack spreadable lives out of the fridge most of the time. It gets put in the fridge occasionally. Usually lasts a few weeks, never gone rancid so far to my knowledge

Thanks for all the advice DP will only eat lurpack, he's a bit strange with his food. But I will definitely separate a bit out a week to use!

DP now says he hates when butter is soft and then said "urrrggggh" and said I'm not allowed to leave his lurpack out of the fridge why can he butter the bread fine with fridge butter but I can't?

I thought anything other than a 'real' block of butter ended to be kept in the fridge.
The only butter we use is the blocks though so am not sure with the spreadable stuff!

Real butter all year except for the 8 weeks when it gets soft and we use spreadable

DH got rid of my Douglas butter dish and I have never really forgiven him

Maybe he can't butter it easily and just eats it in large lumps on the bread? ;)

Apparently my paternal grandmother used to say "take care of the edges and the middle will take care of itself". It seems she is more or less right - if you butter around the edges, you end up with enough in the middle too.

I will try the edges bit as he's determined I don't warm his butter either. He'll just have to butter is himself in the future because I give up haha