Butter Knives

[SallyF]

I was wondering where the best quality butter knives are available. I buy locally (Arkansanberg) but can only fine low grade cheap ones.
Help please!

 

[SallyF]

I created a thread on butter knives and now I can't even find it (am such a blonde at times!).
Where should i be posting, here?
Can anyone answer my question anyway? Bout where I might get good quality butter knives, online site maybe? I'm willing to pay a bit i don't mind

 

[rookie4real]

You 1st post is in the "Knife Reviews" forum. And for the butter knives check your local Wallmart.

 

[Roger999]

I created a thread on butter knives and now I can't even find it (am such a blonde at times!).
Where should i be posting, here?
Can anyone answer my question anyway? Bout where I might get good quality butter knives, online site maybe? I'm willing to pay a bit i don't mind

You want to spend alot of money on a piece of metal that just spreads butter?......A cheap butter knife would work fine for spreading butter......

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I moved this from the General Knife Discussion to FEEDBACK, for information on dealers. When I locate your first thread, I'll merge it with this.

SallyF, after you start a thread, go to Thread Tools at the top of your post and click on Subscribe to this Thread. Then you can go to your User CP (User Control Panel) and see where all your subscribed threads are.

You can also do an internet search on Google or Yahoo for kitchen supplies to find tableware. It's not a topic many of us are familiar with.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

You want to spend alot of money on a piece of metal that just spreads butter?......A cheap butter knife would work fine for spreading butter......

Really? Why buy anything expensive then, why buy anything a bit more elegant than bare-bones functional? Why have a knife industry that caters to the new, the better, the exotic? Why have a Bladeforums to discuss all of this?

 

[MORIMOTOM]

she only shows two posts, so i dont think there is another thread.

re the op's question: what exactly makes a butter knife good?

some of the ones i have are the "dual purpose" type, with the serrations. then others are just flat peices of metal with no cutting edge.

any bk gurus out there???

 

[MORIMOTOM]

You want to spend alot of money on a piece of metal that just spreads butter?......A cheap butter knife would work fine for spreading butter......

some prefer to spread butter with more style than others.


today i carried a $500 letter opener.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

she only shows two posts, so i dont think there is another thread.

There was. The first post was in one thread in Knife Reviews and Testing and the rest was in General Knife Discussion. (I'm just real good at this. )

 

[Ramm9]

re the op's question: what exactly makes a butter knife good?

Fit, flow, finish, balance and reasonable heat treating...oh, and percentage of silver or gold involved.

Gumps might have some but I bet there are some classy Italian butter knife models out there worth finding.

 

[MORIMOTOM]

There was. The first post was in one thread in Knife Reviews and Testing and the rest was in General Knife Discussion. (I'm just real good at this. )

ah yer a sneaky one!!

thread combination. im all caught up now.

 

[SharpByCoop]

I saw a busy diner that was banging out orders. They had a spoon that had the head flattened, and they were spreading butter quick and fast.

Who knows better than a fast east-coast Greek diner how to butter properly? :thumbup:

So I made one too. Works MUCH better than a 'real' butter knife.

It's a myth, I tell ya!

Coop

 

[Ramm9]

Forgot to mention, search under "butter spreader". Past the $300 mark the description changes

 

[Ramm9]

I saw a busy diner that was banging out orders. They had a spoon that had the head flattened, and they were spreading butter quick and fast.

Who knows better than a fast east-coast Greek diner how to butter properly? :thumbup:

So I made one too. Works MUCH better than a 'real' butter knife.

It's a myth, I tell ya!

Coop

Now if you could just convince Jerry Busse to to copy the design with Infi.....

 

[trimcut123]

 

[rookie4real]

I think the choice of steel and heat treat are not very important for the butter knife. Butter knife does not have a real edge to cut, so edge holding is not a factor here. Of course there are really fancy handcrafted ones, made with silver or gold. Here is one I found on Amazon, quality looks as good as it can be in a butter knife. http://www.amazon.com/Oneida-2765KB...r_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1239426237&sr=1-1

 

[CUTS LIKE A KRIS]

I saw a lot of MOP butter knives today at the local yearly antique show so they can be made fancy, but I have no recommendations- I use whatever is in my pocket at the time.

 

[SallyF]

You want to spend alot of money on a piece of metal that just spreads butter?......A cheap butter knife would work fine for spreading butter......

Well do you just buy sharp knives to cut things? how is that any more important than spreading butter!? There's no point cutting a slice of bread if you can't then butter it, am I wrong?

It's just the one's I have are cheap light ones and the blades aren't really that big, I find myself just using a table spoon at the minute. So anyway do you know where could I get better?

 

[SallyF]

some prefer to spread butter with more style than others.

See this is my point

Why ever use a low quality blade!?

 

[Cougar Allen]

It's something you use every day. If you invest in a good one you'll get to enjoy it -- likely more than anything else you could invest that surplus cash in.

I'm looking too.... For a while I was using an oyster knife. Then I found a "sandwich knife" that works pretty well, but I think it could still be improved on. I don't like a sandwich knife with a rigid blade -- I like it to be springy....