Eater Staff
Yes, butter curlers and spreaders deserve to be in your everyday tool rotation
There’s nothing quite like the joy I feel when I unfurl a block of Camargue salted beurre, creamy Kerrygold, or rich Icelandic smjör. The only thing that is (almost) as important as the butter I eat is the tool I choose to put it in my recipe/tartine/radish/mouth, and that’s where a great butter curler can really shine. Why fumble your blade over a hard, cold stick of butter from the fridge when you could use a butter curler to create fluffy, spreadable clouds for your toast?
Far from just being a country club Easter brunch staple, a butter curler deserves your consideration as an everyday kitchen tool, and I would like to nominate this little spreader for the job while it costs less than a matcha latte with oat milk:
There’s a seemingly infinite number of butter curlers out there — I even found a 100-year-old butter curler made out of sycamore wood — but this stainless steel iteration is so handy because it’s equipped with two sides: one that is lightly serrated, and another that has small, slotted holes designed to curl extra hard/cold butter even if it’s straight out of the fridge (or cheese, if that’s your bag). At eight inches in length and with a little weight to it, it’s also the ideal size for nonchalantly resting upon your aesthetic butter dish (because you also deserve one of those), unlike a large, clunky dinner knife.
Last but not least, a butter curler is a clever workaround in a household that may be divided on the “should we leave the butter at room temperature?” debate (covered in more depth in this Eater article), because it delivers on the promise of creating spreadable butter from even the most rigid of sticks.
What are you waiting for? Start spreading while it’s just seven bucks — your pancakes will thank you.
Grab this handy stainless steel butter spreader for $6.99 over at Amazon.
