How do you store your butter? If you're like me, you're constantly slicing off a tablespoon here and there for baking or cooking, and then tossing that opened stick back in the box. But this is a good way to make your butter go stale or taste off quickly. Enter a smart, tiny solution: The Butter Saver.
The Butter Saver is such a smart little idea. It's a silicone cap designed to fit over the end of a standard-sized (1 1/4 inches wide) stick of butter. It stretches a bit, and fits snugly. When you cut the end off a stick, you can just cap it and throw it back in the cheese drawer.
But that's not all! The little cap holds exactly 1 tablespoon of butter. So if you need another tablespoon of butter, just use the cap as a guide for slicing.
It's a small thing, but it saves waste and space in the fridge. Two thumbs up!
Find it: Butter Savers, $5.99 at Save Brands
Related: Help Me Find a Better Butter Dish!
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Interesting!! I'm the "Help Me Find a Better Butter Dish!" - this might be what I need..
I absolutely love this!
omg, what a unitasker.
I have a Rubbermaid butter dish (I use it upside-down, with the "dish" part on top as a lid). Works great, keeps butter fresh and fridge smells out.
It also has the advantage of accommodating the "standard" size butter we get west of the Rockies.
No love for the west coast :(
I keep butter in the freezer until I'm ready to use it, then I lop off a little chunk (enough for 2-3 days) and put it in the above-mentioned Rubbermaid dish. I keep it at room temperature, because refrigerated butter just won't spread on my toast. :)
I think I would rather hang onto my $6 for something else.
Plastic wrap?
You know, until I read the comments, I didn't even click that there were two different styles of stick butter. Growing up in the TX panhandle, it was long & skinny. Here in ABQ, it is short and squat. Interesting, indeed. And I just have a generic plastic dish that fits the short/squat stick or the Irish import I occasionally splurge on at Trader Joe's.
I just use the extra butter wrapper!
I might buy this if it were a dollar, but not for $6! Plus it seems like the kind of thing that would get lost in the drawer when you're not using it.
You know, if you don't cut through the paper when you're cutting off a piece, you can just fold the paper back around the cut end. No need for another plastic thing.
i might have considered if it was $1. too expensive for what it does.
rubbermaid butter dish to the rescue. you can even bring it out to the table when serving rolls. it's microwavable, too.
I learned from this post that there are different standards for butter packaging. Fascinating (I'm a life long east of the Mississippi gal).
This is a joke post otherwise, right? I'd lose that thing in a countertop gap in no time.
so brilliant! but $2.95 would be my price point for this. can we DIY it?
Butter in the fridge has never gone bad on me. I use it too quickly.
I'm with @LeapKate and @KatePK on this one - I just unwrap one end of the butter wrapper and just cut the butter, instead of cutting through the wrapping. Then I just fold the wrapper back over the top and pop it in my enclosed "butter" section of my fridge door. It keeps in there just fine. Plus, my boyfriend is always cutting off the ends unevenly, so the end is angled. Which would not work well with this cap, which assumes you can cut butter straight. Lol.
this is awesome! i've had two very nice butter dishes leap from the cubby in the door and shatter, so i've been shy about getting another one. this could be a nice solution.
I think the butter bell is a genius invention to keep your butter spreadable, at room temperature without going stale: http://www.butterbell.com/ I absolutely love mine!
As a life long midwestern/east coaster, I never knew butter came in a different shape west of the Rockies. Of course, wikipedia has a good summary of the history behind this.
Cheese drawer?
It's a cute idea but $6 does seem a bit steep for something that I will probably lose. I am also a fan of the rubbermaid butter dish but unfortunately mine fell into the dead zone behind my lazy susan corner cabinet thingy, so keeping track of a butter cap seems very iffy.
@Corriveaudc -- I've for some reason never had luck with the butter bell and it seems like I'm the only one. Whenever I go to use it, I find the butter has fallen out of the holder into the water, and/or the water has dripped into butter when I flipped it over. I've tried numerous times but it just hasn't worked. Maybe it was due to the fact that it was summer and slightly warmer in my kitchen, but nonetheless, I ended up throwing out enough water-logged butter that I finally gave up.
I also use Irish butter that would not fit this l little cap. I just use a wide butter dish, although I admit that it never looks as good displaying the butter when I have it in the wrapper. I just keep doing it in case I need to measure out a specific number of tablespoons, since that's always marked on the wrapper.
Nope ... not for me. It's sad that this costs $6 ... I thought you were going to say that this was a giveaway at a Tupperware party (like the citrus peeler, bag clips & bottle caps). I use a butter dish.
I prefer this glass butter dish http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LQIC8K/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_img
I can't believe someone actually thought of this...and it's a great idea! No more unpeeling the foil wrap!