I don't have one yet, but I keep seeing pretty vintage butter warmers at local stores. They're the perfect blend of cute and useful — I think they'd make a great housewarming gift. You could pair one with gourmet butter for a cook, with a vintage apron for a collector, or with Turkish coffee for your caffeine-addicted sweetie.
- Blue enamel butter warmer, $12 at Attic Owl.
- Dansk Kobenstyle yellow saucepot/ butter warmer, $38 at A La Modern.
- Vintage copper pot, $14 at Stuart Road Vintage.
- A bold blue Kobenstyle pot, $56 at Olive and Frances.
- A classic Cathrineholm pattern adorns this sunny pot. $70 at The Wild Plum.
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These look suspiciously like Turkish coffee pots. Looks like a case of cultural confusion?
Number 1 is an enamel cezve. I have an identical red one.
Yes, I was just going agree and say #s 1 and 3 look like ibrik pots for making Turkish/Arabic coffee...And I'd be even more delighted to get a coffee maker as a housewarming gift than a butter warmer, but these are all lovely.
That's funny - I had no idea #1 was a Turkish coffee pot. When I was growing up, we used it as a butter warmer! I think we had one almost identical to what's pictured (I bet my mom still has it).
I agree w/ the others! My in-laws are from Croatia and Turkish coffee is a daily ritual (throughout the day). The in-laws use a pot similar to #1/3. Best coffee ever.
No1 and No3 are coffee pots (džezva)
I have (and use every day) a beige enamel one with pink and blue flowers :-)
So that's what that strange little saucepan in my cupboard is. Makes sense, because that's what I've been using it for: melting butter and chocolate.
My partner is fond of something similar to #1 that he's had for eons even though he never uses it. I tended to resent it as clutter, but then we bought a gas stove with nothing but grate across the top (even in the middle, where there's grate over a long burner for a pancake griddle). We used to use a plastic spoon rest on the enamel in the middle of the stove, but that's out. Now his blue enamel butter warmer is my spoon rest (more like a spoon bin), since it can live on top of the gas grate.
Dansk still makes #4...
Ibriks!!
yep, agree with the others: #1 and #3 are not butter warmers! they are cezve(ler), turkish coffee pots!
#3 is mine and I listed it as both a butter warmer and turkish coffee.
Thanks for the feature AT!!
Yep, #s 1 & 3 are what the Croats/Bosnians/Serbs call džezve. Turkish coffee rules!
whelp, I guess I can be the first one in the comments to ask...What is Turkish Coffee and what is a butter warmer? I mean I get the coffee thing but why do you need a butter warmer?
Oh, absolutely #1 & #3 are for making (yummy!) Turkish coffee. I once had an Albanian boyfriend back in the late 80s. His family drank Turkish coffee almost all day long! And they had dozens of these pots going at all times on separate little butane burners. Wow. Flashback! But yeah, I agree with Sggvt04- who needs to warm their butter? I always put my butter on hot foods (potatoes, toast, asparagus, macaroni noodles...) Why would I need to warm it up first? That's what the hot food does for me!
@ Sggvt04- Turkish coffee is finely ground & boiled down like mud, very thick. Only need to sip a little bit at a time, but it is not bitter like espresso. The coffee grounds are left in the cup & people can actually drink the "mud" (I think it's yummy!). I confess I never made it myself, but I was the recipient of many cups of Kafe. These were drunk while listening to the many intriguing & hair raising stories of the lives, and subsequent escapes from Communist Albania, of those warm hearted & generous Albanian refugees I befriended.