Max Space Butter Mill Dispenser - USA Made, Twist Action Butter Dispenser for Refrigerated Butter, Margarine & Cream Cheese with Tablespoon Markings

This is my husband and mine's most favorite kitchen gadget. I bought our first one years ago at a drug store that was selling them for about $5.00 each. The concept looked interesting and, at the price, I thought it was worth a try. That unit was the Chinese-made one, which is white and opaque all over. It was called the "Butter Butler". It worked great! The way this product works is that you slide a stick of butter into the housing and enclose it with the screw-on, screw-in handle. Once you start screwing in the handle, it compresses the butter in the housing and forces a ribbon of it out through a very narrow slit in the bottom. It is very easy to load and use and has several major advantages over using butter from the package or a tray: 1. You get a perfectly uniform thin ribbon of butter (about 1.5 inches wide) every time. 2. Your butter stays perfectly fresh inside this gadget as there is virtually no exposure to air until it is squeezed out. 3. It's a great conversation piece. 4. Very easy to store and clean (dishwasher friendly). This clear unit with the red trim is US-made and, I have to say, in this instance the Chinese product is the better one. We bought the second unit because it looks and works 'exactly' like the first one, but has the attractive red trim. This way, we could have one for salted butter and one for unsalted and be able to easily tell them apart. But, although they do look very much alike in structure, the mechanism on the US product is nowhere near as smooth as on the original Butter Butler. It also tends to jump from its threads when one is trying to push some harder butter through, so you have to rethread the top before you can continue. The Chinese made item does not do that. It has deeper threads and stays put. In any event, I do highly and enthusiastically recommend this product. One of ours broke recently and we replaced it immediately. Hint: Always push all the butter out of the unit completely before retracting the pusher. And, when you do retract it, do it slowly and gently. Ours broke because we did not empty all the butter out every time and we yanked the handle back out too quickly. This caused the vacuum to stress the push plate against the screw that attaches it to the handle. The screw ended up breaking through the push plate. But even this happened only after several years of use (and abuse). It is a very sturdy product overall.

Like my Butter Mill. The thin layer, even when cold out of the fridge, melts nicely on toast. I don't use it all the time, but when I do, it's easy to crank out a bit, and then loosen the handle to stop the pressure from pushing more out. When loaded with a new stick it is a bit long, but it still fits in the butter compartment of the fridge. Love that it is Made in USA.

awesome. i bought another style from another maker here on amazon, it had more low profile design where you had to cut the stick of butter in half to load and it came into about four parts for cleaning. It was absolute junk, about the second time i cleaned it some part was broke and the unit wouldn't function. I tossed it in the trash cause i didn't want to figure out how to fix it....i wanted some butter. This american made butter mill is of excellent quality. Ive run about a dozen sticks of butter through it and actually use butter more often because this product makes it easily accessible instantly straight out of the refrigerator. I bet chefs would love it too. It also has a sight gauge so you know how much butter has been dispensed. The same company has a metal one and ill buy that one next for sure.

Part of the product(cap screw) shown in the attached video is not sturdy enough to squeeze out the butter that just came out of the refrigerator. The cap broke while the plunger is pressing the butter. And if the butter softens it sips through the butter plunger. Should I still return this item to you broken? This product is a good kitchen tool if sturdy enough to withstand its intended purpose, otherwise if will fail imminently while being use.

This butter Mill provides a rather thin shaving of butter that easily melts on what even you spread it upon that the item is warm or hot. The fist time we tried it was on a hot english muffin and after applying the ribbon of butter it was easily spread across the entire face of the muffin in amounts that we more than sufficient but did not provide too much butter. I would suggest just keeping a stick of butter within the mill in your refridgerator to be ready to use when you need it. Because of its ease of use and ability to spread thin ribbons of butter, I could forsee that this device would actually reduce your buter consumption. While the Butter Mill worked very well without problems, I am not sure of how durable it will be since the screw pressure against the bottom of the mill is rather strong for the strength of semiflexible plastic used in its construction. However, since I observed no problems I am going to buy a few more for stocking stuffers at Christmas. My rating of 5 starts is based upon the assumption that the Butter Mill will be durable enough for its purpose.