Try it before you dismiss it, that’s all I’m saying!
Edit: I have found my people.
Yeah, you’re probably right about this, though I use knives to spread things because I hardly ever use the knives and I don’t want to get a spoon dirty just for that
I don’t have much silverware
Lunacy, but I’ll try the next time I’m applying butter. If you convert me and I have to explain myself to others for the rest of my life, know that I’ll hate you.
Didn’t think I’d see a useful Life Pro Tip here, but such it is. Going to give this a try.
Mayo, etc. I use a big tablespoon.
Your opinion is popular with me.
I knew it couldn’t just be me!
Husband did once admit I might be right, but it was about 20 hours after he’d had general anaesthetic so claims it can’t be used against him.
there are dozens of us, DOZENS
You guys don’t just grab the stick of butter and rub it into the bread like a glue stick?
I do that with toast sometimes. The problem I run into is the butter temp has to be just right to both not mush out and over butter, or be too hard and rip the bread
not sure if everyone knows about the existence of the butter knife?
They are a bit better than a regular knife but they just can’t approach the efficiency of Spoon Method.
Thank you for making an actual unpopular opinion.
The only reason I would say for not doing this is because of how awkward it is to get excess butter/stuff off of a curved surface compared to a straight surface like a knife. Sometimes you have to break out another spoon or something else just to get it off, so you’re messing up twice the dishes. A knife just easily allows you to scrape off the excess.
I can’t tell if you’re mistakenly thinking we use the front of the spoon, which definitely would result in a lot of wasted stuck butter. Or if you just imagine it’s way harder to spread it all off the curved surface than it is.
I’m guessing you don’t put your butter in the fridge. Shit’s hard as a rock.
Lurpak Spreadable, baby 😎
64% butter. And rapeseed oil. Bleh and IMO seed oils are bad for you.
I don’t think these oils are bad for you, but if I buy butter I want butter.
The debate is raging but I’m firmly in the bad camp. We did not evolve eating these seed oils.
We didn’t evolve to do a lot of things. Sitting, for example. Or living indoors.
That’s not a good reason to not do / use something.
When it comes to our food intake (how we fuel and build our bodies), yes it a good indicator. Then you can look at the Omega 6 content too and all the literature on that, inflammation, oxidation, etc.
Interesting thought.
I use a butter spreader for butter, but a spoon for jam/jelly. I don’t think I would like the spoon for butter myself, but it’s neat to see other people who use spoons to spread condiments.
What on earth is a butter spreader? If someone’s invented a device even better than the spoon, I’m in!
That’s how I spread jelly, too. It always wants to clump up and the spoon smoothes that out.
I feel like you would need a really warm spoon for this.
A lot of people have commented about butter being hard and I’m wondering if it’s a location-dependent thing? Those solid butter blocks are a thing here (UK) but I don’t know anyone who uses them as a normal daily butter for spreading, they’re mostly just if you’re cooking or something and it doesn’t matter that it’s a big solid lump.
I keep my butter at room temperature, which could be cool enough to be firm or mostly melted, depending on the season.
But if the spoon is cold, then soft butter will stick to it. If the butter is too hard, then neither a spoon or a knife will spread it easily.
The correct, superior truth is as follows: the shape of the buttering thing (spoon, knife, etc) should match the shape of the buttered thing (bread, toast, erc). Flat shapes for flat surfaces, curved shapes for curved surfaces.
So you’re cutting the butter with the spoon, too, I assume? Do you not refrigerate your butter?
Not being critical. Legit curious
For me. I wouldn’t use a spoon. But my butter on the butter tray is not refrigerated. Anything else is put in the fridge
I spread jam/jelly with a fork.
Arrow down, because I always thought that was how you should do it. Wife showed me her using a fork, and I was like “what kind of monster raised you?!?”
