Keeping butter in a butter dish

No …what’s the point. I live alone and keep it in its block in the fridge. Never had an issue.
Decades ago I used a butter dish, but would only use one now with formal ‘sit-down to a meal’ visitors.

The thing about the stuff called "spreadable butter" is that it isn't just butter. It's contaminated with non-butter.

We put about a 1/4 of a pat in a lidded butter dish and keep it in the larder. I only keep the necessities on the worktops. (Soda stream, coffee machine etc) If it’s not an ornament (I dislike ornaments) then I don’t want it on display. The rest of the pack is in the fridge.
I keep the salted butter in the dish until it’s used up - sometimes a week, sometimes a few weeks - then replace it with more butter.

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I have a Jennifer Rose CERAMIC butter dish, from the 'honey bee' range.
White with pretty flowers and bees on the base.
Amazon £11:49.

The butter goes INTO the dish with a pretty lid with a "knob' that is easy to lift and difficult to chip or break.

I really don't like butter dishes where the butter is on a saucer-type base and the lid goes over the top to cover it.

I keep the dish continuously on the worktop (looks SO pretty), summer and winter, and the thickness of the dish keeps the butter cool but spreadable at all times (if straight from the fridge just micro' in the dish for 10-15 second).

I handwash as it is always in constant use but it can go in the dishwasher.

I've had mine for a couple of years now and would highly recommend it. Still available from Amazon (plus other decoration choices but I think the 'honey bees' is the best!!!)

I keep meaning to get other items from the range as it is so nice.
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I always keep butter in a butter dish.

I think most people using butter have more than one butter dish.

Yes. And I've bought one (from a charity shop) for DD3 that has a certain well known brandname on it (begins with L) because she thought she had been brought up on that kind of butter. I disabused her of this idea and said I bought Co-op cheapest. That was their own label but its current equivalent is Müller.

Anyway, when I first picked her up from her student flat her butter was in a screwed up bit of wrapper. Eugh! I told her she should use a butter dish but she reckoned she wasn't grown-up enough to own a butter dish so I'm keeping one for when – if – she ever is 🙃.

I don't eat butter.

Yes, we keep our butter in a ceramic dish with a lid on the worktop, and I pop it in the fridge for a while if the weather is very warm.

We have butter in a butter dish with lid kept in cupboard and a spare dish so one is always clean. Misgivings about spreadable anything made us change years ago. It keeps well and kitchen is warm due to Aga.

Yes, our butter is in a butter dish and only goes into the fridge when it's really warm. We have a few old butter knives that have been passed down from generation to generation which I love using.

I have butter on my kitchen work top, lasts for ages !

Yes, I’ve always had block butter kept in a dish in the cupboard. Never there long enough to go off.

I’m also partial to salt crystals in my butter.

Yes absolutely love it, ceramic butter dish.
While we are on the subject….whats with Anchor reducing the size of the block to 200gs from 250 !

Yes you are wrong it is 100% butter

Yes.
Does it spread well straight from the fridge?

Yes we do and have done for donkeys years, there's far too many additives in spreadable butter, we use it for cooking and baking too, its kept in a glass butter dish in a cupboard and in the fridge when the weather gets warmer.

I have an old Lurpak dish with Douglas on top playing his trombone. There is always butter in there, next to the bread.

My microwave has a ’soften butter’ setting if it’s too hard to spread in winter, or I use a microplane to grate it.

We use a butter dish but only put half a pat of butter out at a time.

Half a pat?

That isn't much. I always thought a pat looked like this: