You have little time for breakfast and you decide to make yourself some toast. You toast the bread, grab the jam from the fridge, and when you think everything is ready to sit down to eat, the butter, still cold, is harder than a rock. Spreading it becomes an impossible mission, and you resign yourself to eating your toast with uneven pieces of butter because it hasn't had time to soften. Has it happened to you?
To prevent this from happening, the usual thing is to take the butter out of the refrigerator a few minutes before eating it so that it can warm up, but we don't always have the time to wait for it to be ready. Luckily, there is a way to solve this problem. You only need one tool that is usually in every kitchen: the grater.
The procedure is very simple. Simply grab the block of butter as if it were cheese, and grate it until you get the amount you need. If you don't have a grater at home, you can also use a fine mesh strainer, as you can see in this video. In just a couple of minutes you will have soft and perfectly spreadable butter so you won't suffer again if you can't wait for it to soften.
If you don't want to dirty your kitchen utensils, we bring you another option to soften butter at full speed. All you have to do is add boiling water to a glass and let it sit for a couple of minutes for the glass to heat up. Then you empty it and cover the stick of butter with the glass, which will create a warm atmosphere that will soften it without melting it. After about two or three minutes, remove the glass and you will see that it is ready to use in your favorite breakfast. Here we leave you the procedure:
