Butter dispensing machine and butter application strategies - GIF

[Jon]

Butter dispensing machine. Not sure what to think about this. Like all decent people, I don't like hard butter - it's destructive and annoying. I also don't like it when buffet food gets picked over by hundreds of people. And I guess there is probably a legitimate public health concern there. But, wow, this is what we've come to as a civilization?



Admittedly, I've been down this buttery road before. In fact I even backed the Kickstarter for a ButterUp butter grating knife (it actually works pretty well, but only if the butter is hard). Also, you can just apply hard butter by grating it like cheese. Butter gratings also melt more readily than the ButterUp's cylinder-like butter pieces, probably because a grated piece has a higher surface area to volume ratio than a cylindrical piece.



Next step is to try a butter keeper; one of these guys below. Anyone try these? You fill the bottom of the outer cup with water, and then you keep it on the countertop. I guess the water seals the butter somehow? I wonder how often we'll have to change the water, or if this will this result in (gross!) "wet butter"?



More: https://www.butterspender.de/en/