So I must admit, I’ve only really tested this out today.
I’ve ran out of clean knives and because I’m lazy, I grabbed a spoon.
I used the back of it to get some butter out of the tub, and smothered it across my piece of bread. LET ME TELL YOU — the ease of which this butter spread across my piece of bread, you would not believe!
No accidental bread rippage when you go to spread the butter out. It’s honestly very efficient. It’s quicker due to the surface area.
Had it been yesterday, when I had clean knives, I would have completely thought myself stupid… but it is not yesterday; it is today. And I am currently munching on the nicest sandwich I have ever made.
My only ask of you is that even if you completely disagree with the very idea of this post, at least try it out once.
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Key word here is tub. For sticks/pads of butter (especially at room temp) knives are superior. maybe not strictly for spreading but definitely for scooping. But for tubs i’m inclined to agree
I’m guessing you live somewhere warm
maybe it’s time to butter the butter knife so that it can easily butter butter.
But isn’t it difficult to get the butter onto the back of the spoon in the first place? And isn’t buttering the corners of the bread tricky?
Just use the back of the butter knife. The part without the serrated edge. No rippage.
Butter in a tub usually isn’t Butter. If it’s in the fridge but you can still spread it, it isn’t real Butter.
Try peanut butter next. I’ve never felt more satisfied spreading something on bread than when it was peanut butter with a spoon.
I do this for mayonnaise and since I usually eat cottage cheese with a sandwich it gets one less thing dirty.
Butter =/= buttery spread that comes in a tub
Therefore not an unpopular opinion, just wrong.
Agreed! As a PB&J afficionado i often use the back of a spoon to spread the PB, then flip that bitch around and scoop out the J. Advanced tool application.
I do this for everything, butter, mayo, peanut butter all of it. If it’s soft like jelly I scoop more with the spoon then spread.
I watched Walter White do this and it changed my life forever.
Get a butter stick, bro
Not butter this, its in a tub that. Reddit doing what it does best and completely misses the fucking point.
The back of a spoon is better for spreading than a knife 100% I don’t care if you can’t believe its butter, its better for peanut butter, jam, mayo, literally any sauce
Been doing that for the last 35 years. So much more ergonomic than any knife.
My Dad did this when I was growing up, I just thought he was being edgy LOL
I work in a kitchen, we spread a lot of butter. There’s probably a 50/50 split between those who use a knife vs a spoon. I’m team spoon.
Don’t take butter tips from someone who gets “butter” from a tub
Butter, no. You’re doing something wrong.
Preserves, however, need a spoon.
Skill issue.
Psshh who needs utensils?!
I’m chaotic. I tend to grab the entire stick and use it like a crayon to color the butter onto the bread.
Big Butter knife industry contests those results. Why else would there be butter knives? You MUST use butter knives..these are not the spoons you are looking for…