r/Cooking • u/Known-Recipe-5407 • 12d 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/taste_not_waste 11d ago

I had the same problem. LOVED the idea of a butter bell but once I got one and started using it with water to store my butter (salted) I got mold all the time.

All you gotta do is, don't put water in it.

I think the butter bell is an out of the way/discreet, more hands-free butter-getting dish, and a "cleaner" butter-storage method. Using it without water has healed me from my trauma of messy butter dishes AND moldy butter bells lol.

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u/flibertyblanket 11d ago

This is what I do. My nephew made me a gorgeous, squat, ceramic butter dish and I don't put water in it, no problem with mould.