Stainless Steel Butter Spreader knife, Butter Knife - 3 in 1 Kitchen Gadgets (4)

I purchased this because I always have a hard time spreading my butter on my toast. This item makes easy to spread my butter 😊

I'm a butter in the fridge guy, so this little gem works a treat, Gliding it over the top of a cold stick of butter yields nice, easilly spreadable ribbons, thin enough to melt quickly if your toast is still warm. As others have said, it has a nice heft to it, and is large enough to fit most hands. A great little tool!

Doesn’t work as well on butter straight out the fridge. Still satisfied with my purchase.

After a month of use I'm downgrading from a 4 to a 3 because I've stopped using the knife. It makes butter curls like in the photo -- but at the price of completely mangling the butter stick and making bread-buttering a mentally taxing activity. If you are specifically after curly butter, then great; this is the knife for you. If all you want is an easy way to spread cold butter so it will melt nicely on your toast...this is not the answer you're looking for. It takes too much technique to get good curls, then spread them on the bread without mashing them back together or gouging a hole in the bread with the open tip of the knife. The stick of butter gets progressively more and more deformed as you use it; the top starts to "mushroom" and the ends don't get scraped as much as the middle, which forms a saddle. With about 1/6 of the butter stick left, you can no longer make a good pass, nor hold onto it anywhere to properly resist the action of the knife. And this is assuming you have a dedicated stick of butter just for spreading. If someone else has cut out a sloppy chunk of butter, it's even harder to make a clean pass. I'm using refrigerated butter. I've found that I can make my own thin "shavings" that melt just fine on toast using a "normal" knife at a very low angle. I guess I'm grateful that this knife taught me the fine motor control required to finally be able to never use it again?My original review below:The finish is smooth and seems durable, while the knife is solid with good weight, and very stiff. Which is good, because you need to use firm pressure with it for good results.I'm about halfway through my first stick of (refrigerated, not frozen) butter with this tool and I'm getting the hang of it. There is definitely a knack to its use, which requires modulating pressure and adding a slight turn in the wrist as you progress down the stick of butter, along with a one-way "sawing" motion so that you start with the holes nearest the base of the blade touching the butter and end with the ones near the tip. This prevents the curls from getting so long that they break off, and lets them fan out so that when you apply them to the bread, they don't just smash back together into a non-melting blob. Your first few strokes will leave divots in the butter that ruin every subsequent stroke until your technique improves. If someone in your household is a "sloppy butter cutter" who gouges haphazardly and leaves mangled butter sticks in their wake, you will have a frustrating time using this tool on those ragged surfaces.This would all be fine, except for the large hole at the tip. While having a "3 in 1" tool is a clear marketing advantage, I have no use for this larger butter curler, but it makes the act of actually buttering bread destructive, tending to tear and rip the bread itself if you use the knife to spread in any direction other than "broadside". This matters particularly because the very best motion for putting the curled butter onto the bread evenly and "laying down" so it will actually melt involved drawing the blade lengthwise (in the direction of the handle). This lays the butter curls down nicely but rips the bread with this hole.The shaving/curling action could be a lot smoother and require less pressure if the holes were cut at an angle, or with an actual chamfer, the way the serrated edge is. Instead, they are cut straight through, perpendicular to the blade. But this would be more difficult to manufacture and might introduce a left/right handedness to the design.I think the "perfect" version of this tool would have neither the serrations nor the single hole at the tip, but rather a set of curling/shaving holes along both edges, made at an angle to the blade so that they actually sliced without requiring so much force. This could be done so one side is lefty and the other is righty. It wouldn't be as "idiot proof"...but it would work very well. That'd be a 5-star butter knife.

This spreader works really well and does exactly what it was described to do. It is easy to hold and spreads my solid cold butter nicely.

Before I bought this I got enticed by a lookalike product that was less expensive. It was horrible. The blade was thick and all it did was smush the cube of butter. The holes wouldn't produce curls since it was too thick to actually 'slice' into the butter at an angle, no matter how flat you held it. I quickly returned it and bought this one, fingers crossed it would do what the video showed (now I'm wondering if the video hadn't been copied for the other product since no amount of working with it had the same outcome!). Amazing! It truly glides through the butter and creates curls, as advertised! The only trouble, if you can call it that, is when spreading butter with the serrated side it has a tendency to fill the large and smaller holes with butter. I've learned that this is actually a bonus because you can then flip it over and place the large and small curls on another part of the bread! This means using less butter overall as it distributes the thicker portions to areas that aren't buttered yet. Bottom line - don't get fooled by the copycats, buy the original and save yourself the frustration and time returning an unusable product!

I really wanted this knife to solve our issue with butter not spreading in the winter, it just doesn't work well. We leave the butter out (in a covered butter dish), so it is not refrigerator cold, but the butter does not go through the holes easily. Tried holding the knife at various angles, different depths, but nothing worked. It does work as a regular butter knife.

I like this product overall. It's easier to use on hard butter than a regular butter knife and is better for spreading. I had a few problems with the butter staying still and the little holes are not easy to clean. But it works well for its intended purpose.

Excellent product, works well as advertised. Good quality material and well made

Funciona bien

Maybe there is a knack to it, but I found this very unhelpful in spreading cold butter. Then it churns up the bread or toast too. I wish this worked, but it’s just not good at doing the only thing it was created for.

Way too expensive for something that doesn't really work

It is not sharp, so I am not getting much butter on the knife when I scrape it along the bar of butter. A little bit disappointed.