My breakfast lifehack: Trouble spreading hard butter from the fridge? A cheese slice produces thin sheets that can be easily spread. Banal but effective.
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Butter melts easily, if you are putting it on toast, a warm bagel, a pancake or waffle, etc. Put the pat on on top, wait a few seconds and spread. Its will ve soft, even if frozen, and spreads, easily.
This way you don’t have to wait all that time and can get a thin sliver of butter instead of an awkwardly shaped knob.
I think that this is a pretty funny idea ed! You could keep the butter in the freezer (I am assuming this will make it keep longer, as I haven’t done it) and still take shavings off hte block. If it was harder, wouldn’t the butter be even easier to shave?
This falls firmly in the “Why didn’t I think of that?” category! Thanks for the tip!
More crazy tips to come!
Ed!You are now my hero! I cannot believe the answer was staring me in the face with the cheese and cheese slicer sitting right next to a slab butter (and jam). Wonderful. I may just go try it for fun – even if its 10:50pm
why DIDN’t I think of that??? We just got a cheese slicer so it will definitely be getting some butter action!
Butter me not buts as the Shakespearean Marlon Brando may well have said.
I usually commit kitchen crime and nuke it on low for 10 seconds. Just enough to make it spreadable.
Wel, that is a crime to use one of those machines. But I have a good wine hack with one.
“instead of an awkwardly shaped knob”
Anyone else? Just me?
I don’t have a cheese slice so I smoosh it on a board with the flat of a knife.