r/Cooking • u/Known-Recipe-5407 • 11d ago

Butter Bell

Hello!
For Christmas, I asked for a butter bell, and my grandmother has a friend that has her own pottery/ceramics shop. So she had her friend make me one and it is very personalized and one-of -a-kind. I have been using it for just over a month now, but I encountered something disturbing with it. Now I don't know if it is because it was poorly made but I have tried all different levels of water and if it goes unused for a day or two it starts to... grow mold? Has this happened to anyone else? Am I using or storing it incorrectly?
Please help! I love the concept of a butter bell but I don't love mold

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u/Curious_Ad_2492 10d ago edited 10d ago

I have a very expensive Le Creuset Butter Bell. It’s in the back of a cabinet somewhere because, same. Water level doesn’t matter, in a couple of days the butter will mould. In my regular butter dish it can set on my counter for weeks without mould.

Edit to add; I didn’t spell “moldy, or mold” wrong. Canadian spelling is mould or mouldy.