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.

From my experience of butter dishes I would say that if you're a scraper rather than a cutter of the butter then make sure that you have a dish with a surround.

If its a completely flat plate with a lid then if you scrape the butter when its a bit hard the whole block will slide off the plate. If its a bit more dish-like then the raised edge will stop it from moving around IYSWIM

We've got a plain white Sainsbury's one. Now sans lid. Still keep butter out all day- never around long enough to go off

Good point ND.

I always leave mine out. I don't put the whole block of butter in, just a chunk that I am confident will still be fresh when we get to the end of it. In hot weather that would mean a smaller chunk.

Its the plate type with a lid on. It looks like pyrex and I think it was £2 from Wilkos.

We keep it out of the fridge.

We have this one as well as the Cornish blue one, and the Cornish blue one is much better.

Just found some lovely ones in this polish shop on ebay here

Ooh smelly we have matching butter dishes!

This one is nice and its made in the UK.

I use a plastic lock&lock box (from John Lewis or Lakeland) which holds a block of butter perfectly.

Not very glamorous, I know, but after being crushed by grief when I broke my mother's 1970s Denby butter dish I know that I can't cope with losing another aesthetically pleasing butter dish!

i have a tupperware one a bit like this www.tupperware.co.uk/xchg/uk-ie/hs.xsl/656.html

I have a version of this i.e same potter but different design.