Yeah, I'm not really sure what the advantage is to that set up. I have a butter Bell and if it's particularly warm outside even with air conditioning on, the butter and water are room temperature and the butter can slip out of the Bell into the water when the top is lifted. The advantage to your setup is the butter is not upside down so it can't slip out so I guess that's some advantage. But that water isn't going to keep it even modestly chilled in a very short while. It's cute though, so enjoy it!

Thanks, DLM. Actually, ours is plain white, I'm sure I'd have gotten the red stripe. Or maybe this

or any of these

But then, I guess I could have saved $10 and just used one of these enameled mini-cassoulet I found in my mom's kitchen.

I used to have one of these but we don't use butter all that often so it got donated in the last move. It does help to keep the butter from getting too melty. But, where did you find the one with the little chick on top? My future DIL would LOVE that for Christmas.

So you basically just leave the butter out of the fridge in something similar to those boats? MIL keeps her butter out...but sometimes it has a weird flavor.

Always1step, we have a covered butter dish on the counter. We love butter (sigh) so it doesn't have a chance to get "funny".

Jmck, the images (except for the last yellow one) I just found by googling! I think they were all from eBay or etsy. They are so cute! Of course, I know we'd break the adorable knobs off within 6 months.

bepathome, you were about five miles from my house. Glad you enjoyed your visit to Wayne County.

Very cute. My darn butter addicted dog just broke my butter bell so I need a new thing to hold it. If I leave the butter anywhere uncovered he will find it (and can reach anywhere on the counter...darn Doberman). The butter bell was working great but I guess he figured it out. Once he even helped himself to a loaf of bread to eat with his butter. The butter footprints all over the house gave it away even though he manages to look as if he is saying “I’m not sure who ate the butter”.

I have an all-white version of the butter boat. I don't know what the scientific explanation is for the cooling properties. I never found it to work particularly well, but I think that's because it gets too hot in my house in the warm months. I use it without water to hold my butter in the refrigerator as it is the right size and shape and easily washed.

Bpathome where did you see those cute boats, I love the one with the chick!

Oh I love the one with the wood top!

bp we have butter issues here, too. I figure it's better than alcohol though ;-)

DLM, we don't choose between the two. We go for both lol.

Schoolhouse, Wayne County is so pretty! We had overnighted in Berlin in Holmes County, also very pretty. Got some yummy cheeses but forgot to get butter. Actually, I just love Ohio now. My son is at school in NY so we are always driving through, sometimes we find an opportunity to detour for a bit, and I have family around Cleveland.

Fun2Bhere, sounds like we have the same butter boat, plain white, classic. I find it funny that you keep it in the fridge. Do you use the insert and the reservoir, both?

Lucille, Google is my friend! I just googled images of butter boats, I had no idea there were such cute ones out there! I'd never even HEARD of butter boats till I saw it in Lehman's. Ha ha, my big Amish country memento and it's made in China or easily found on etsy. Well, at least I'll remember where I got it.

My3dogs-what a great pic! I can never catch mine in the action but he eats at least a stick of butter a week. He will sneak it if I leave it out for a few minutes unprotected.

Bpathome - I do use both the insert and the reservoir because the insert is unfinished on the bottom in order to more easily absorb the moisture when you use it with water in the reservoir. I figured I might as well use it rather than buying a different container.

I grew up in Holmes County! No, I'm not amish but I grew up in Millersburg and went to school with many of them. Glad you liked our little neck of the woods!

Maybe it the water's evaporation keeps the butter dish cool?

I have two butter bells, one from France and one from Quebec, but what everyone here seems to prefer is the glass dish this, which we use not this way but "upside down",

I was kind of shocked when I arrived here from NYC and found that butter came in a large 1 pound rectangle rather than four smaller sticks. I had to rewrite all my recipes that called for one or two sticks (or half a stick) of butter!

Even though I am a food snob, this is my butter of choice. I like it better than Plugra and KerryGold etc etc.

Its plastic container makes one think of margarine (a no from me), but all it has in it is sweet cream, salt, and a soupcon of olive oil. Always spreadable straight from the fridge, and I love the taste. Also great to bake with -- no waiting for the butter to soften

mtnrd, good reminder -- when I do think of it, I mix up butter with olive oil (no salt, though). Butter bells and boats are very handy for storing that.

Not sure if some Canadian version of that exists. Or if we'll be getting Land O' Lakes products with NAFTA 2.0. I hate to say it, but I would pay good money for Breakstone sour cream : ) .

Gigi - my brother and his wife live in Millersburg, raised their kids there. He and I grew up in Apple Creek. Now I live between Apple Creek and Wooster. Small world!

Just to make this on topic - I love all the butter bowls. : ) ETA again: Once I start browsing Etsy for butter dishes, I can be up into the wee hours. I like one with a "knob" on top too.

Mtn, I used to make a blend of butter and canola oil, but I was the only one using it so I kind of got out of the habit. Now that DH is on another health kick, maybe I will pick it up again. But it definitely needs to be kept in the refrigerator.

gigi and schoolhouse, you live in a beautiful state! (We had lunch in Wooster after visiting Lehman's, it was a corner restaurant, I think the owner was Italian, near downtown. Yum.)

Thank you.

You probably ate at "Matsos"? It's right downtown tho and is a Greek restaurant mostly. The owner is Greek.

We get our butter from a local dairy and it comes in a tub, I love our butter keeper. This a photo from the website. Butter goes in the top and water in the bottom.

Totally off-topic, but cleo's story about the dog made me think of this:

I like the turtle one! No idea the connection, but I just do.

Oh, I did come back into the house, having left the butter on the counter for maybe thirty minutes...

There was a missing licked-out portion of butter at one end.

I don't have any dogs, but the cats sure looked might guilty!

Aok, I'm still laughing!

artemis, that's why our second butter dish was a covered one. Also why we make sure to close the pantry door, even when the unopened bag of kibble is on the 3rd shelf (the opened bag is poured into a plastic cereal container in an upper cupboard), and why we keep the marshmallows in a Tupperware. Seriously, who knew cats like marshmallows? At least one cat did, anyway.

Lehman’s is the best! So many interesting things. I’ve been meaning to get a butter keeper; this inspires me to pick up that search. Our Aussie, Bella, is also a butter lover. She used to steal unattended butter from the counter, but she doesn’t do that anymore. But, she’ll only eat the popcorn kernels with buttter!

Bpathome, my friend had to add a latch about six feet off the ground to her pantry door because her shepherds could open the pantry door without it. She also had to add one of those childproof knobs to the back door because the dogs could turn the knob and get outside.

Schoolhouse, we ate at Henry's Station. We liked it! Though we were in that odd shoulder time after lunch. Then while DH took a work call in the car, I strolled up the street. I'm intrigued by the St Paul Hotel, looks like it wants to be a boutique but it's an interesting location. Probably gets a lot of college parents. And someday have to visit the Rubbermaid museum!