Tell me about your butter dish...

[welshandproud]

We eat butter in our house.....I know it's bad for you but it tastes so yummy!

I need a butter dish but can't decide which type i want. A dish you put butter in with a lid or a plate with a lid. I'm a bit of a novice. Have no idea if these 2 types have different types.

Do you keep yours in the fridge or not?

Any guidance gratefully received.

i have a plate with a lid on the top

usually with one or 2 cat hairs in it.

not kept in fridge. Even more cat hairs in there.

Mine is like a little board with a ceramic cover you put over it. I find I can't get a good angle of attack with the lidded dish kind. Though maybe those are OK if you're a scraper rather than a chunk-cutter-offer.

I just leave butter on the side

lol i cant't believe that such a thing as the butterdish blog really exists!

Butter isn't bad for you (or at least, it isn't bad for me, nope, no way).

We keep ours in a mini Le Creuset (we had it in an old blue pate dish before but the lid broke) and we keep it out of the fridge.

Dish and lid. Easier to limit mess that way, easier to wash up. Hate scooping butter out of a bowl thing.

(can't beleive there is a blog!)

I have a Koziol Butter Dish and I keep it out of the fridge most of the time (but never sure if this correct but hey I am still here and well so must be ok) I am a recent butter dish convert and love it!! Have just been looking at butterdish blog - would love the butterfingers one.

We have a butter dish. Plate with lid job. I agree with Heartease - makes getting the butter out easier.

Lives in cool, dark cupboard with the bread and goes in the dishwasher whenever it's empty.

Had heard that a little butter is much better for you than margarine. Too many chemicals and processes in margarine. Butter is natural

We have an insulated dish with lid one from Lakeland (here)
Tis very nice but can get a bit greasy fingered looking if DS gets his fingers in the butter. He's 2 and likes to eat lumps of butter...

It lives on top of the breadbin!

Lovely butter dish (tray and lid), cut glass job a bit like <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=images.oneofakindantiques.com/5243_pressed_glass_butter_dish_1.jpg&imgrefurl=www.oneofakindantiques.com/catalog/5243_pressed_pattern_glass_covered_butter_dish_canadian_design_1.htm&usg=__o4ZB5Ez3FWOOQuhA3X9z6kYfJJE=&h=419&w=640&sz=42&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=Vid_daRwIe-tzM:&tbnh=136&tbnw=176&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbutter%2Bdish%2Bglass%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1137%26bih%3D440%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C115&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=304&vpy=140&dur=312&hovh=182&hovw=278&tx=164&ty=97&ei=DnCbTJP7JMbIcYqZ5d0J&oei=AHCbTJePOsGPcey-2M4J&esq=3&page=1&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0&biw=1137&bih=440" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this, lives out on the side at the moment but will end up in the fridge in summer or the contents become a puddle of melted grease.

Butter far better for you than chemically altered oils, just don't have too much :)

I've got a stainless steel one. It's more of a bowl with a shallow lid than a plate with a domed lid, if that makes sense. I find I make less mess with this type- but I am a
scraper, not a chunk-cutter-off .

It took me agesto find one too- I didn't want glass/ceramic because I'm clumsy and would break it for sure.

It was quite dear, as well, I thought, so it had better last.

Oh and it lives in my 'breakfast cupboard'.

Since I had loads more available space when I had the kitchen redone, I now have a shelf with tea, coffee, jams etc etc on it.

I is dead posh.

I have a Guzzini one. I keep it out on the side, DH tidies it into the fridge. Butterdish wars!

I have a blue and white cornishware one bowl with lid much easier for us scrapers. :)

MrsMI love the look of the Alessi but it doesnt sound big enough for us!

shodan I can only dream of a breakfast cupboard. Someone mentioned breadbin earlier...oh for the space!

Amazon have a nice range of spotty ceramic dishes but i think now having heard your advice that cutting chunks esp when baking probably more my thing than scraping!

I had thought if i found one i liked I'd leave it out unless weather really hot then I'd stick it in the fridge

I have this one

Plate with lid is the only way to go!

I have a Cath Kidston one that DH got for me. He said it was prob cheapest thing in shop (apart from keyrings). Stays on work surface

We did have a stainless steel one from freecycle but dh never liked it and it got "lost" when we moved house

I have a Charlotte Watson creamware one which sits on the dresser with lots of whistles, small screwdrivers, rubber bands etc in - is very very pretty.

The butter stays in it's lurpak carton as I can then just chuck it away and it is not something else I have to wash up.

But that must mean it's Lurpack Spreadable Madame, which is not Real butter.