{"product_id":"metal-butter-dish-with-bamboo-lid","title":"Metal Butter Dish with Bamboo Lid","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a small, daily pleasure in butter that spreads like silk. A cold stick tears your toast and fights your knife, while butter kept at room temperature glides. We built this keeper around that everyday moment, so soft, ready-to-use butter is always within reach on your counter instead of hiding, hard and forgotten, at the back of the fridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bamboo lid is chosen for a reason. As a dense natural wood, it breathes just enough to prevent trapped condensation while still shielding what is inside from air, light, and wandering kitchen odors. Beneath it, the iron base adds weight and cool, steady mass, giving your butter a calm and settled home rather than a flimsy tray that tips over or warms too fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts lines are deliberately simple. A low, clean profile and a smooth matte finish let the piece sit quietly among your everyday things, equally at ease beside a rustic farmhouse loaf or a hard-edged steel coffee bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose crisp White to brighten an airy kitchen or deep Black to anchor a darker one. It makes a quietly generous housewarming or wedding gift, and an even better thing to keep for yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIron base, bamboo lid, BPA-free. Base is dishwasher safe. Hand wash the lid. Holds a standard US butter stick laid flat (6.1\" x 4.2\" interior).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow long butter actually keeps on a counter\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe short version is that salted butter is a counter product and unsalted is not, and that temperature decides more than time does. Around sixty-five degrees a covered dish holds flavour for a long stretch. Around eighty you have days. The USDA's conservative line for salted butter at room temperature is one to two days, and a dish does not overrule it so much as remove the two things that make butter turn faster than it should, which are light and moving air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe whole of it, including what an opaque body does that a glass one cannot, is in \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/how-long-butter-can-sit-out\"\u003ehow long butter can sit out\u003c\/a\u003e. The bamboo lid has its own rules, in \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/bamboo-lid-care\"\u003ehow to look after a bamboo lid\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Kensington London","offers":[{"title":"White","offer_id":43454062624816,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black","offer_id":43454062657584,"sku":null,"price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/3840\/5680\/files\/kl-p-butter.jpg?v=1785756189","url":"https:\/\/kensingtonlondon.com\/products\/metal-butter-dish-with-bamboo-lid","provider":"Kensington London","version":"1.0","type":"link"}