The Easy Way To Soften Butter

I witnessed the softening of butter by the microwave method the other night. … My God it was horrific. … Once the butter was released from the radiation chamber, aka microwave oven, is was this runny, half melted/half solid thing. …You know, don’t believe the hype. Say you’re making a cake and you need to cream butter and sugar. OK, first thing you do is take out your butter, slice it long-ways and lay out on the board. .. That’s it. … By the time you get the rest of your ingredients out and even do some pre-measuring you’re there. The butter in these pictures took only a few minutes to soften. No microwave, everything even (no half melting) and all natural with no wasting of electricity.