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.

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.

Not quite as good as the old Butter Butler. The slot on the Butter Butler was more towards the middle, and had some contouring on the inside that guided the butter out the slot making it easier to extract a ribbon of butter. The end was removable to help in cleaning. It also had a much better and beefier screw mechanism, but alas the removable end where the Butter Butler came out was it's undoing - my end fell into the garbage disposal and met an untimely demise :( Then it was a rude discovery to see the Butter Butler wasn't made any more. I suppose I could 3D print a new one now, I may have to look into it since I did keep the body.3D printing aside, I was thrilled when I found this on Amazon last year. It's not quite as heavy or well made as the old Butter Butler, but at least it does work pretty well.As others pointed out, it will not work with frozen butter. It does work out of the fridge just fine and I keep my fridge pretty cool. For best results store it as high in your fridge as possible, and if you can take It out 15-30 minutes before you want butter that will make it that much easier to extrude a nice ribbon. Slow and steady pressure is the key - don't rush it. If you are jumping grooves when tightening you are going too fast or the butter is too hard.it works great in the top rack of the dishwasher for cleaning. I think if the slot was more towards the middle and if the screw threads were a little bigger/deeper it would be as good as the original Butter Butler.

First, you need to use a knife to cut the butter down on two sides in order for the stick of butter to fit in this. Second, you absolutely can NOT use with butter that is hard from the refrigerator, it just will NOT work, no way, no how!!!Basically, you can only use with soft butter, so why do I need this when soft butter can be easily applied with just a butter knife. This is a solution in search of a problem that this product doesn't fix. Save your money!Unfortunately, by the time I finally unwrapped, washed & used this product, it was past the point that I could return it. So I'll probably just give it away or throw it away, as it's a waste of space.