Keeping butter in a butter dish

Half a pat?

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

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

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.

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.

Yes.
Does it spread well straight from the fridge?

Yes you are wrong it is 100% 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, 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.

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

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.

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, 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.

I don't eat butter.

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 always keep butter in a butter dish.

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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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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.

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

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.

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

AreWeThereYet thanks for the info re M&S spreadable butter.
Just looked it up.

Apologies Albangirl14 - I'd looked at a lot of spreadable butters recently as I'm trying to persuade my son to go back to butter (at his own home but he "can't be bothered" if it won't spread easily!
Does it really spread easily straight out of the fridge?

NotSpaghetti

Albangirl14

We use the only pure butter that is spreadable . It is by Marks and Spencer and can be found in laeger stores. It can be kept in the fridge . It is made in Nortern Ireland usind a very creamy milk .

I think that contains about a quarter rapeseed oil (from memory).
Could be wrong!

No, it is actually 100% butter with a little added salt.

Gfplux

We have two butter dishes. Used alternatively.

So do we. We put about a third of the bar in each dish and keep one in a cool dark cupboard until needed. The other one stays on the counter top. It's usually used before it ever gets too soft or goes rancid.

We use Country life spreadable butter for sandwiches, toast etc & block butter for cooking - English of course, we need to be supporting British dairy farmers! We did have a very nice butter dish but I think it broke some time ago & we don't need it these days anyway. I can't imagine not keeping butter in the fridge...

NotSpaghetti

Albangirl14

We use the only pure butter that is spreadable . It is by Marks and Spencer and can be found in laeger stores. It can be kept in the fridge . It is made in Nortern Ireland usind a very creamy milk .

I think that contains about a quarter rapeseed oil (from memory).
Could be wrong!

M&S do do a full butter spread - apparently churned specially to keep it soft. They also do one that contains rape seed oil.

Albangirl14

We use the only pure butter that is spreadable . It is by Marks and Spencer and can be found in laeger stores. It can be kept in the fridge . It is made in Nortern Ireland usind a very creamy milk .

I think that contains about a quarter rapeseed oil (from memory).
Could be wrong!