butter boards, yea or nay?

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Anonymous wrote:I eat way more butter than I’d like to admit - bread and butter is probably my favorite thing ever. But making butter into a appetizer like this is just gross. What, do you all sit their dipping your knives into the butter?

I can sort of see the appeal of serving a compound butter on a small plate with the herbs on top. But the point of a compound butter is to flavor the butter by mixing in the additions, so that also seems a bit besides the point?

The grossest part is that no, they're not using knives, they're saying people should just dip their bread in and scoop it up. So gross.

Would that seem gross to you pre-COVID? Because that's how people eat dip. Not that unusual.

DP, but it’s the smearing that really grosses me out with these. Most people don’t smear dip around and many put some on a plate separately and dip from there. These are just… so gross.

I don't like these but I don't see how they're really gross. You take a small piece of bread, you dip it into the butter (your fingers don't touch the butter) you eat it. Repeat. Your hands shouldn't be touching the contents, just the piece of bread. Like with Ethiopian food. Agreed double dipping would be nasty but I don't know any adults who do that.

I'm the PP you're quoting and I still think these are different. It's not at all like with Ethiopian food - again, there's no smearing involved. In order to get any butter on the bread, you need to smear it around on the board. There's no "dipping" in the butter; it's not melted butter. Just, no.

[Anonymous]

For the dip PPs - do you spread your baba ghannoush and hummus out on a cutting board for people to push around with their bread? I don't - I put them in a bowl that allows for easy scooping.

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If I did do a butter board (which I wouldn’t bc who wants to eat a bunch of butter?) I would produce a butter knife/spreader, possibly only for each flavor if mixing would be an issue

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I also don't think they are necessarily gross, but I don't understand how you can keep the butter at the right temperature.

Like it needs to be a very specific temp to be able to be scooped like that, and if its too warm then its melting off your tray, if its too cold it can't be smeared. So I just can't see how practical it could be.

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Anonymous wrote:I also don't think they are necessarily gross, but I don't understand how you can keep the butter at the right temperature.

Like it needs to be a very specific temp to be able to be scooped like that, and if its too warm then its melting off your tray, if its too cold it can't be smeared. So I just can't see how practical it could be.

Yeah. I like the idea of serving an array of different compound butters in small ceramic dishes or in logs with a nice bread basket and butter knives - you could even fancy them up with herbs and fancy salts on top. But not on a wooden board, gross.

ideas: https://www.justapinch.com/blog/articles/read/224667/how-to-make-compound-butter/
https://www.landolakes.com/recipe/16589/assorted-savory-butters-recipes/
https://farmtojar.com/preserving-fresh-herbs-as-herbal-compound-butters/
https://www.loveandlemons.com/herb-compound-butter/

[Anonymous]

Just watching Rachel Ray doing butter boards on her show. I posted upthread that they sounded good. They look gross. I so wish there was something other than butter smeared on those boards. Nasty.

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Pathetic. No. Unsanitary. No.

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Anonymous wrote:Pathetic. No. Unsanitary. No.

+1

[Anonymous]

Seems reqally crazy in pandemic land

[Anonymous]

^really

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Anonymous wrote:Seems reqally crazy in pandemic land

It's not even that. I'm the PP who just saw this on Rachel Ray. Her DH scooped up some butter on a cracker and took a bit. You just know he's standing there with a mouthful of butter. Not something anyone wants to do more than once.

[Anonymous]

Seems like a shirtsleeve dragging hazard as you are running your bread or chip across the flat board. Yuck.