Do These 4 Butter Gadgets Work?
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Today I'm testing out four butter gadgets. The first one I saw online, and the other three were recommended by Amazon.
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0:00 Introduction
0:39 Butter Cutter
4:37 Joie Butter Knife
6:59 Butter Dish
10:30 Butter Mill
13:27 Final Thoughts & Ranking
#butter #buttergadgets #kitchengadgets 
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Im guessing 90%+ of us that clicked knew beforehand we'd never buy these, but your attention to detail and upbeat attitude makes every review fun to watch for all who subscribe. 😀
Yeah plus this guy lives in my city and sometimes he reviews stuff I can use in my area. Vegas is different 🤣
Whaaaaaat? Nuuuu..never
i have the butter cutter, i use one hand with cooking all the time, i have no issues with it, but my butter fits right in i dont have to cut it
True that
i'm hoping for 99%+
Butter gadgets have always been funny to me compared to a lot of other kitchen gadgets - They just seem like a lot more work/really messy (+ something else to clean) for no real payoff.
Yea well
Yep, and one more thing to clean.
I was about to comment this. I don’t see any use case or problem that it should solve… if you have trouble cutting butter, it doesn’t seem to eliminate that (people with ms for example).
They’re to protect your butter from the cat tasting it!
Yep … something else to clean and no advantage. That’s a no from me!
Hey. I am not american but I watch a lot of gadget reviews. I have this memory of someone reviewing the first product you had and saying that depending if youre in the east or west of US, you will have differently shaped "sticks" of butter. This gadget was made for east coast butter that tends to be long and square, whereas you have weat coast butter which is brick shaped.
East coast butter was my nickname in high school 😂
@@ShellyS2060 Buttery slick :D?
I honestly can't fathom how any of these things are better than just a regular knife.
Agree
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Trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist.
Trying to spread pats of cold butter can easily tear certain types of bread; the holes in butter knives like the ones featured in this video help make colder butter spreadable. If you don't have bread that easily tears or if you keep your butter at room temp then you'll not have encountered this problem.
Butter cutter acts as a butter storage too, just dump it into the fridge. Saves the need to manually cut cold and hard butter, or wash the butter knife. Pop a few slices onto toast fresh out of oven, let the residue heat from the toast warm the thin butter slices while you grab your coffee and stuff, then smash the butter with your fork and spread it around. Put the cutter/container back into the fridge. If only it can release butter much better, uses much less effort to press, and have better aesthetics, then I might buy it though.
The problem with the first gadget is that butter sticks come in 2 different shapes depending on where in the US you are. In the east butter sticks are long & thinner. In the west they’re shorter & wider.
I don’t know that I ever knew that. Hmm. Today I learned…
What?
Thank you, I was going to say the same thing! Here on the east coast, our LandO'Lakes butter comes usually in a four in one pack, and they are longer and thinner than the LandO'Lakes butter he had. I had no idea it was different on the Westcoast.
James, Butter cube size must be a regional thing. I grew up in the pacific northwest and moved to Iowa 17 years ago and the first thing that struck me odd was the butter cubes were all long and skinny, so long they didn't fit in our butter tray with glass lid.
That odd chunk of butter you used looked fat and squatty in comparison.
I noticed that too. Here in the Northeast, very few brands are packaged that way, (short and squatty). Most are long and lean.
I thought the same thing...
Yep, google 'Elgins vs western stubbies'.
This is correct. It's an east/west division. The shorter, skinnier sticks in the east are the original shape, but for some reason, when a company out west started producing butter, they went with a different shape.
He either bought the wrong size, or they only make a product for east coast butter.
I’m in Canada, and we have 454 gram block, which you can buy in four individually wrapped ‘sticks’. They’re such a weird weight because that exactly 1 lb, each stick should be 1/4 lb, or just over 100 grams. I’d definitely check the ‘tablespoon’ mark on the butter dish to see what size of stick they’re referring to. How much does that larger ‘stubby stick’, like James is using, weigh? A tbs should be 15 ml melted (or about 15 grams).
That butter cutter is made for the butter sticks we get on the east coast. I can't remember the exact reason, but butter comes in a different shape in the western half of the country than the east.
Here in Illinois we have east coast butter shapes. It looks like our standard "East Coast" sticks would have fit the butter cutter, though I'm not sure it would have solved his issues.
Since the Elgin Butter Company came up with long and skinny butter sticks they made the Elgin Butter Cutter.
Our butter sticks on the East Coast are different from the West coast which are short and thick , there isn't any difference in the product itself it was just packed different in 1940's until eventually it was packaged in larger quantities such as tubs.
The tablespoon markings will be different, too.
I was gonna say. I live in New Hampshire and I was like tf why is he using wide butter
You could be in Canada, where most butter doesn’t come in sticks but in solid one pound blocks.
On the Australian Amazon site there is a few brands of the butter cutter, one was the Audson Stick Butter Cutter which came with this warning "Fits standard 1/4 lb/4oz hard butter bars/sticks (Not for California, Oregon, or Washington State) if you live in one of these 3 states order the large Multi-Size Butter Cutter"
A great warning for all us Aussies.
😂 🍻
butter is such a easy to use ingredient i just don’t really think you need to be in the kitchen if you gotta have butter devices
on the butter knife, the BIG hole is for scraping the cold stick of butter, you then transfer the ribbon to the thing you want butter on, and use the small holes to further break up the big ribbon, and start it spreading , you finish with the side without holes to get a nice even coat of butter of your toast, or corn, or whatever.
About the tablespoon markings: it depends on which side of the Mississippi River you live on, whether they will work for you. East coast butter sticks are thinner and longer than West coast butter sticks. Could also make a difference with the Butter Cutter.
thats exactly what i was thinking, i live in nj and i have never seen a stick of butter that looked like those.
I thought you were about to make a joke about which side of the Mississippi you live on.
Then I learned something 🙂
And then down in texas we sometimes see both. Usually the long ones.
I’m in the South - the butter I’ve bought here is exactly the same as I’ve bought for years in other states! Where in the East Coast is this a “thing”? Didn’t see a difference when I visit PA and NY.
@@sandybruce9092for purposes of the original message, east coast is anywhere east of the Mississippi and west coast is anywhere west of the Mississippi.
I am not sure how accurate the Mississippi is as the dividing line, but I have lived near both coasts, and have observed the difference in the butter sticks.
Be mindful when purchasing any butter cutting utensil, butter is one of most greasy of all foodstuffs. The constituent parts of ANY butter cutting machine will require constant cleaning and maintenance (omitting lubrication) , and will likely pose more hassle than using the humble butter-knife in the first instance.
Butter.
The best thing for spreading butter, is the back of a spoon. Of course it needs to be room temperature, but the surface size and rounded edges make it a superior spreading device. Learned this when I worked in a hotel.
And you probably already own a spoon. I hope you own a spoon, friend.
@@sonialinsey8083I don’t😢
I like how you tested the gadget in real-world scenarios. It adds credibility to the review thank you for sharing 😊
The Butter Mill I guess doubles as exercise to improve your hand strength, or make your arthritis worse.
The butter cutter looks like it's designed for the longer, thinner sticks of butter that you get in the Eastern United States. The history behind the different regional butter sick sizes is kind of fascinating, incidentally.
Ok. So you HAVE to try the KitchenArt 32000 Buttermate Butter Cutter Slicer. I bought one, loved it so much that I bought 2 more just to have on hand in case anything happens to it. But honestly, it’s been years ABS it’s still going strong. Great fire cold butter, and had never once failed. It can be pricey, but I bought me “extras” as a two-pack, that Amazon had on sale a cooler of years ago. Give it a try!!
I bought this butter thing. I was surprised to learn that I would have to trim the cube in order for the butter to fit the device. I did some research and discovered that West Coast butter is bigger than East Coast butter. The East Coast butter is longer and slimmer. The West Coast butter is shorter and stubbier. I live in Los Angeles....it didn't work for me
That water-filled stoneware French Butter Dish you reviewed previously is the only thing you need. The problem is that on super hot days like we had this summer, the butter will go rancid quick, so you have to put it in the fridge at night, but still, it is great to have soft butter all the time!
I love my butter bell. Never have had it go rancid? But we use ac in the summer.
I like how you can tell where a butter gadget was designed or at least, where it was targeted to be marketed, by if it's designed around the short fat west coast butter sticks or the long thin east coast ones.
Which is your favorite though? I grew up East coast but have lived in the west most of my adult life and I still hate the fat western butter.
I’m confused with the different sizes if butter sticks! I’ve only seen the normal kinds anywhere I’ve been - Arizona, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina where I live? Plus I already have two items for cutting butter - they are a knife and a foster in case I should need to do this (frozen butter I’m guessing!)! But I love watching James with all kinds of gadgets, etc.
I had no idea that sticks were different depending on where you live!
@@sandybruce9092 By saying "normal kinds", you're showing your bias. ;-) I am familiar with the longer, skinnier sticks, but in some places the bigger bricks are what you find. It's just a regional thing.
@@deedee67888that's not based on where you live rather it is based on where the stick was manufactured
I’ve been using the butter dish for about a year. Mine (earlier model) isn’t as fancy as yours (plain butter knife, no markings) but I really like it! The lid is formed in such a way that you can sit it down and the ‘feet’ haven’t touched the butter and leave greasy marks. 10 out of 10 for me, especially with your fancy butter knife!
I recommend a butterbell. Perfect butter that stays on the counter
Yep! Butter Bell. I have one but haven’t had a need to use it for a few years - I just don’t cook much anymore🫢🫢
That Land O Lakes butter is a different shape now, it looks like. The sticks are shorter and fatter. I think the longer, skinnier sticks will fit.
I don't really use butter gadgets anymore. I had bought a bunch of them over the years, but none of them really work that well.
I DO like that butter dish though!
I have found shorter sticks and they are packaged as a half pound instead of the usual full pound! I’m thinking these would work for someone who doesn’t need a lot of butter. But I’ve never seen any brand with different types of quarter pound sticks in the usual 80one pound box!
I posted a comment a few minutes ago about the differences between East Coast and West Coast (California) butter sticks. The West ones are exactly as you describe. Shorter and fatter.
I like the butter tray, BUT on Amazon Canada, it sells for $51!!!!! At that price, it should come with coupons for a few free pounds of butter!
Whoa! $51.00 are you serious? That's a lot! Someone's price gouging.
The ribbon function is great for when you have forgotten to soften butter for cooking.
That Butter Mill would do better for Parmesan cheese than butter 😂 great video as always James 👍 Happy Sunday
Or any kind of cheese.
@@m2pt5 Pretty sure that using Brie would be a fail.
If you want butter ribbons, just use a cheese shaver or a grater. That would work better than any knife with grating, shaving, or ribboning gimmicks.
6:39 It's not grate, but it's working better 😂
I have the butter cutter, its amazing, just don't put it in the dishwasher, it weakens the plastic. To remove the plastic thing, hold the handle in
In the USA, East and West coasts have different standard butter sizes. On the East coast, you wouldn't have had to cut the stick.
Hey James, FYI I’m supposed to get all notifications from your channel but this is the first one I’ve gotten in a long time. Not sure what the RUclips wizard is doing behind his curtain. I have a premium subscription if that makes any difference. Love your content and all the work you put into it. It’s the every man’s version of Consumer Reports.
You missed the best butter dispenser I've ever seen. " KitchenArt Buttermate Butter Cutter Slicer, Measuring Dispenser and Keeper". Amazon, $10.99. I've had one for about a year, even gave one to my daughter in law. Holds both sizes of butter sticks, measures, cuts, dispenses, without a knife or mess. I cut butter directly onto my toast, corn on the cob, etc. It also fits into the butter compartment of my fridge. I enjoy your reviews, been watching for years. I live here in Vegas, too. Love the videos with your dog,
Butter Bells are great, too, but living in the heat of the desert, and keeping my A/C bills reasonable, it's too warm inside for those. Any butter on the counter melts.
I'd love to see you review more "bad" products or poorly reviewed ones lol
It's fun to see if it can pass the tests haha
The manufacturers are trying to find solutions for problems that just don't exist.
Jeez! That's a Giant stick of butter 😳 I've never seen one so thick ! I just get the Kroger butter. It's half as thick but 2x as long.
TWSS
My regular knife looks better all the time. Who needs these things! Your enthusiasm when something actually works is my favorite part of the video.
I always want these gadgets to work, even if they are unnecessary! And I hear ya about the knife!
@@FreakinreviewsI have a stand up butter knife from Amazon. It's a regular knife but it stands straight up. It keeps the counter clean and saves room not having to lay a knife down. Love your reviews ❤
Ended up with a glass butter holder from my mother years ago and I have never needed anything else. Every silverware set comes with butter knives and that's all I need.
Ronco had some really good products that work. And non-fancy butter will work.
I personally have one similar to the butter dish one he got, and I have used it for a couple years so far. I love it.
For the first item, it looks like he used a larger butter stick than traditional. There are at least 3 sizes of butter sticks the days. If the package doesn’t specify what size works, then that’s on them, but even with the stick being too large, it worked pretty well for a cheap gadget.
You make me laugh, 'greasy reviews' .....LMAO.
That's why i keep coming back for more of your videos.
I bought one of the butter knives a few years ago and it works well but it still doesn't spread on toast well because the butter still cold. I think the best solution is to get a butter bell and put your butter in there (remember you have to change the water every 3 days) and then you can use room temperature butter
I love the butter cutter, it’s easy to use and no Messing up a knife just to get one or two things of butter when I need it for cooking.
Plus cleaning it up is very easy, butter melts so you just run it under hot water.
I was going to comment the same. Also If you use the correct size butter sticks it works perfectly. Even after he cut it down it was too big.
You should have tested an electric (heated) butter knife! It would've fit perfectly for this video!
Is there such a thing?
@@chrismayer3919 Good question. I was thinking the same thing.
@@chrismayer3919Apparently there is...on Amazon. Reviews aren't so great...
I mean... you could just heat up a knife under hot water and get the same effect?
@@Dyanosis possibly; although due to the laws of thermodynamics, the knife would lose its heat rapidly after touching the cold butter. You’d get two, maybe three pats before the knife would require reheating (electric heat knives don’t have that problem) 🙂
Hey Freakin’ Reviews you should implement a oily left hand review like another reviewer on the internet does, to simulate either an older lady or someone with weak hands. It would also be a good categorization for products which should only be one handed. But a weak hand test with oil on hand helps simulate if products will be good for everyone or not,
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Love you, James. Never change!
I think that larger size of stick butter is popular in some regions, I'm not sure where... my entire life (Southeast and Midwest) our butter has come in the thinner, longer sticks.
It is hard to find butter sticks in Canada so I would have to cut it into sticks. Thanks James, I hope you, your kids and your fur babies are going great! ❤
In the restaurant industry there are "butter curlers" that I always liked. It made large ribbons like the last knife device you demonstrated. They are hook shaped and made the butter pretty and allowed the butter to warm so it was more spreadable.
That last devices looked quite messy to me. I like the large ribbon appearance of that one knife you demonstrated.
If you like the large ribbons you should try a potato peeler on a cold stick of butter, works like a charm makes nice ribbons of butter.
good idea. dont need another tool in the kitchen too
Great tip! Thanks for sharing!
Another awesome video. Thanks for the detailed video. I would probably never buy this device, but found them interesting.
I've got a butter cutter that is way better. It has no moving parts. It's called a knife.
Yeah, but how is Bezos gonna survive if we don't buy cheap useless nasty plastic crap from Amazon. Do you want him to starve or something?!
How did you get it. Because money can't buy knives
The only butter gadget I need is the OG...The butter 🧈 knife.
There are 2 different 1/4 pound butter sticks in the US. The west has a shorter fatter stick and the east has a longer skinnier stick. You had the west butter stick and the cutter holds the east stick. That is why you had to cut some off.
Certainly not made for senior citizens. Maybe the 3rd one would be ok. Measuring with
the base would be hard if you have bad eyes. Thanks James. 🤗
13:21 Lmao James can I recommend product number 2 as a solution 😂
8:40 "Very easy!" Like a knife through butter. Oh, wait.....
I buy butter in quarter sticks, and my simple covered butter dish was a freebie. I leave it out on the counter so the butter stays soft and spreadable.
a good butter dish is nice, i have an old one from the 60s and its great. that one has some good design features. the rest of those things are waaaay more trouble than they are worth
Love this video! I had a busy weekend so couldn’t watch right away but I usually click as soon as the notification pops up!
I find all these Butter Things hilarious, over here in The Netherlands we just have Butter packaged in tubs with a lid, and just use a bread knife to scrape out enough and then spread it on bread.
Another great review James. I like the butter dish w/knife the best. We just bought a new butter dish but it didn't come with a knife. I love the knife that comes with this butter dish. I wish I could just buy the knife. If anyone knows where I can get the knife please let me know. thanks
Gree-hee-eesy!
Greasy Reviews sounds like a show Ricky, Bubbles and Julian would have to talk about crappy products lol.
13:18 make it battery powered. Problem solved. Do I have to think of everything for these inventors? lol
On the 4th butter gadget …maybe you’re supposed to CHURN your own butter first.. so TURNING the Butter Gadget will seem easy🤣
really enjoy your review videos 🤙🏼
The temperature of the butter is everything, here in the UK you get about 6 weeks a year when butter isn’t a challenge.
The guillotine butter machine looks very familiar to me and it must have been a 1980-1990's item. The others I've never seen. Love the blue knife! Here in the Southwest, we keep our butter on the counter in an enclosed Tupperware container and it really doesn't matter what size of butter we use since we will cut to fit when it's cold. The house is at 80F most of the year because our summer can get up to 120+F w/o air conditioning. Much warmer and the butter will melt. We go through the butter long before it goes bad.
I like the name "Guillotine Butter Machine" 😂
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Use it with a Guillotine Bagel Cutter.
Ronco 😂😂😂 but wait there's more
I owned that butter thing. It's great for the quarter pound sticks. It does work better with butter somewhere between warm and cold though
The first one must have been designed for the east coast US style butter quarters. I've never understood why butter shapes and sizes are different throughout the USA but they are lol. The ones we have in Pennsylvania would fit with no issues in all these gadgets.
Good reviews man!
Thanks for the review James!! I keep my butter on the counter and use a novel gadget called a butter knife. I have been watching for 3 years and will continue to watch every review no matter what it is.
Just watched some old videos and realized how much I miss the old kitchen. Well the regular house kitchen.
While having the measurements marked on the dish is a nice detail, those markings will only be accurate until you start scraping across the top of the stick of butter.
Love your videos! I would love to see you do a video on the Ninja Speedi! 😊
Or just leave your butter out and its always nice and soft!
We use a parmesan cheese cube grinder (think olive garden "tell me when" gadget) drop a cold cube of butter in and crank away. Works okay.
But I mainly use my old fashioned butter bell with water to keep it spreadable.
8:59
I wish they make too hole with wide knife butter like spatula butter
thank you, majestic bald man. your videos bring me comfort when i am too high to move.
I bought the other butter dispensing device you did a review on. It was the one that had a crank and screw to push the butter out in a thin ribbon. I wish I had not bought it, the standard butter sticks I bought from Costco are to wide to fit in the dispenser.
The plastic on that Butter Mill was so cloudy it looked like they were stored in a warehouse in the 80s and someone found them and decided to try selling them off.
I got a knife with the holes. It works as it did for you, but still won't spread. The solution is the "keep warm" setting on the microwave.
@2:00 you bought the wrong size stick of butter. You need to use the 1/4 pound sticks. The 1 pound box with 4 separate sticks. No wonder why it didn't work 😂
That is a quarter pound stick. That’s what we get in the stores on the West Coast
Thank you for the “Ronco” reference! Made me chortle.
Ronco items were actually pretty well made, back in the day.
First, it was the egg Reviews 🥚 now it’s the butter reviews 😂
We bought a butter press a while back. It basically functions like a hypodermic needle for a stick of butter except that the plunger is a screw. You put a stick of butter into it, put the plunger on and start turning it. The butter comes out as a thin ribbon from the bottom. It can produce Ten Feet of butter ribbon from a single stick. Works with warm or cold butter but you want to load it with cold. I don't recall the precise name of it, since we just started calling it the Lippo-dermic.
It’s also called a butter mill. I liked it because you keep your butter refrigerated and the thin ribbons let the cold butter spread easily. I just didn’t like cleaning it out.
Am I the only one who just buys the tubs of butter and uses a spoon to scrape off a layer of butter appropriate for my needs?
You can buy tubs of butter or do you mean margarine? If it is butter in a tub would you please share the brand name.
@@bonniestingfellow734 land o lakes sells butter in tubs. I don't know if there are any others, because I don't bother looking. There are two types you can get: canola oil or olive oil. I prefer olive oil more even though it doesn't spread as well, but it's buyers choice, so you can for whichever you like more.
Addendum: there might be more than two. I wanted to look up how to spell "canola" and saw a garlic and herbs version. I haven't seen that one in stores I go to though.
Bought the butter dish via your link. Great video!
2:04 oh right you live west of the Rockies where the size of butter sticks are different; that device seems configured for the longer narrower sticks found in the eastern US
Learn something new everyday. East/West difference in size of butter. 😂
This is not Freakin' Reviews,
This is Greasy Reviews
A tub of butter and a butter knife is still king 👑. Remember, any new way is longer and harder than the old way 😂
butta dog, dog wit da butta on him
Here in my region (midwest), our butter sticks are thinner and longer. Same volume of butter, just a different size stick.
That Land o Lakes butter is much larger than a default stick, I think.
Nah out west we have these stupidly inconvenient butter “quarters” that are thicker than east coast butter. I shop at Trader Joes to avoid the thick butter.
I thought the same thing when I saw it. Brands like Blue Bonnet, Parkay, or even Kerrygold is thinner long sticks. In Europe the butter is usually a thick block, like Lurpak.
I'm in Cali myself, can't really get more west with only two states for exceptions. I think it is the "quality" of the grocer perhaps? I generally shop at groceries at Walmart or a local cheap chain. @@sonialinsey8083
I am still waiting for someone to show a really good one that doesn't take batteries for people with limited mobility. I love real butter, but it goes bad quick sitting out where I live. I seriously do not like having to get a steak knife to slice butter or melt it to use. Thank you for saving us all money on these that most likely doesn't fit what we need.
The butter cutter Spanish instructions were full of typos... the sign of a quality product... LOL
James White's Greasy Reviews Second channel coming soon....
Has a ring to it!
He could make a 2nd channel of just food tasting reviews and name it that.😆
Things not fitting is pretty much always an issue with gadgets designed for perfect fit. My guess is that the butter they tested it with was smaller in diameter and longer. Butter size, like most things, is likely not standardized. Or maybe the measurements got messed up in production, I've heard of that happening before also.