Hard Butter

[Hotwired]

If something in your mind was spreadable it wasn't chilled or it wasn't butter.

Butter out of the fridge needs cutting not stroking. A big wodge for cooking and a cheese slicing impression to get something that will melt acceptably on toast.

 

[PaulM]

I’ve been using a butter bell for a while, not 100% sure how hygienic they are (change the water every few days) but you don’t keep it in the fridge

 

[Uther]

Salted butter, keep it on the counter in the kitchen. Sorted.

We do that, but still need to run a knife under the hot tap for a few seconds just now. As the weather warms up the (first world) problem will go away.

 

[haaammit]

Just slice the butter onto the bread. Moar butter ftw!!

 

[mingeroonie]

I’ve been using a butter bell for a while, not 100% sure how hygienic they are (change the water every few days) but you don’t keep it in the fridge

Never heard of a butter bell, off to google I go

 

[DXP55]

Wife put a new pack of butter in the butter dish -same as before and this one spreads - Perhaps the kitchen is slightly warmer I don't know but it's great to be able to spread butter on bread and not have bread disintegrate.

 

[jpaul]

proof that lurpak is good - >

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368636250_Comparison_of_the_Spreadability_of_Butter_and_Butter_Substitutes

lurpak (no salt) is Lome, president prme is good too, at 20min out of fridge, and 20C - twice as spreadable as some alternatives.

if you are using a pat of butter a week, you don't leave it all out of the fridge, just decant what you need every couple of days into (Genx thing ?) butter dish

Currently have lurpak + Aldi + farmfoods butter (pats not spreads) on the go -
lurpak is always a lot softer and easier to spread despite cooler spring temperatures, and reserved for bread/toast,
but costs more, had frozen a lot of lurpak when they sold off the 250g's pre-shrinkflation to new normal 200g.

 

[monkentage]

What isn't as good as it used to be today?

*shuffles deck, removes a card*

Butter!

 

[Reuben klang]

proof that lurpak is good - >

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368636250_Comparison_of_the_Spreadability_of_Butter_and_Butter_Substitutes

lurpak (no salt) is Lome, president prme is good too, at 20min out of fridge, and 20C - twice as spreadable as some alternatives.

if you are using a pat of butter a week, you don't leave it all out of the fridge, just decant what you need every couple of days into (Genx thing ?) butter dish

Currently have lurpak + Aldi + farmfoods butter (pats not spreads) on the go -
lurpak is always a lot softer and easier to spread despite cooler spring temperatures, and reserved for bread/toast,
but costs more, had frozen a lot of lurpak when they sold off the 250g's pre-shrinkflation to new normal 200g.

Honestly, try Grahams if you can get it. I don’t know if it’s just a the placebo effect as I’ve been to their factory but it tastes great and is easier to spread.

I get their gold milk as well. Tastes so good in a brew. It’s roughly the same price as lurpak but it’s usually on offer. It’s I can’t get it i’ll use yeo valley - whose yogurts I get!

Brand loyal

 

[mattyfez]

I peel slices off the end of a block with a potato peeler.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Allinone-Kitchen-Potato-Peeler-Multifunctional-Vegetables/dp/B09GYBVSZ4/ref=mp_s_a_1_5_sspa?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vYs0L3TcrdDRZeZ0BPcQ5kOSqXJUHFTUHOwcBUv-8_lmMaPZR2JcrWimGZeovIQ3SvfDkXMnQEdPH0sREGjsTvTzQNGPsMpevXw-pDi6zKo7zL5oX9TT8Ud87CwItFUSFe0OLcO3c8OTWTCX-FHVhSAqS_2_OJJsjZGzoySiokykBu0bDkhgsSGAZZddyCEwj-PbSCpZNfYOeeeLdfPhrg.UGJcbWuEnnnGWSIuRA-L0AqSO6HOw9IG2hQjInAAxyc&dib_tag=se&keywords=potatoes+peeler&qid=1710731464&sr=8-5-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfbXRm&psc=1

 

[Bubo]

I use it as a handy excuse to put more butter on. I'm like "Oh, no! I can't thinly spread this butter in a fashion similar to average marg without risking tearing this bread slice, so I will instead chisel large chunks off and cover the same area, but in large chunks."

 

[Andy__C]

Totally down to the time of year.

We never store the 'in use' butter in the fridge, it's always on the counter.

Sometimes when it's been a roaster of a day in the summer it starts to liquefy which is the opposite kind of Ballache.

Like most others.... shave off pieces but I pop the oven on and let them soften... doesn't take long.

 

[Brazo]

Last Tango in Paris would have been a very different film indeed…..

 

[DXP55]

I have found that, as it's well into spring the butter has sofened a bit and can spread it on soft brown bread.
I have stopped having white bread toast as all versions of white bread now to me, taste like wet cardboard.

This week when shopping I put a malt loaf in basket as I haven't had one for years (Soreen I think) - it was like cutting a brick in half - so unless it was past it's eat by date they have now become uneatable. I used to love those soft squidgy covered in butter slices of malt loaf.

 

[mattyfez]

I have found that, as it's well into spring the butter has sofened a bit and can spread it on soft brown bread.
I have stopped having white bread toast as all versions of white bread now to me, taste like wet cardboard.

This week when shopping I put a malt loaf in basket as I haven't had one for years (Soreen I think) - it was like cutting a brick in half - so unless it was past it's eat by date they have now become uneatable. I used to love those soft squidgy covered in butter slices of malt loaf.

Pro tip... Soreen do packs of pre-sliced malt loaf which is much better as you don't end up squishing it when trying to slice it.

 

[mattyfez]

It's not perfect as the sliced tend to stick together, so you have to prise them apart gently, but it's much less hassle than dealing with a solid loaf.

 

[DXP55]

The good thing about two sticking together is you can eat two at once -But only if they are soft and squidgy.

Those I had today were dry and hard.

 

[Reuben klang]

The banana ones are amazing, I always get a a loaf when it’s on offer in the supermarket.

 

[jpaul]

Soreen aren't what they used to be - over sweet processed food, now, best as a memory

Airing cupboard / system boiler tank, are ideal for warming butter - unfortunately currently have a combi.

can't justify paying the lurpak premium over Aldi's best

 

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