Butter

Having not posted in some time, I decided to raise one of the issues that occasionally does hassle me.

Butter.
In particular, how best to get it to a spreadable state.

Usually when the choice is up to me, I tend to purchase Butter Soft, however it is really just air whipped into the butter and thus you are paying a premium for effectively less butter, however it does spread with greater ease.
However if you are tight on money or you are at a place which does not have easily spreadable butter, there are two methohds you can go about making your butter more spreadable. Firstly, microwave on high for about 10-20 seconds, this tends to make the outside heat up a bit and make it slightly more spreadable. However if you don't have access too a microwave or don't want to continuously melt and solidify the outside of you butter, there is another method.

If you just scrape the area of butter that you want with small, rapid scraping actions, occasionally even wiping it back onto the butter then repeating, the friction should heat up just that small area of butter, making it a tad more spreadable.

That's how I usually roll.

Regards,
Adam O'Grady