“Now that it is winter and it isn’t very roasty, let’s keep the butter warm so we can spread it on our toasty.” - old New England saying. This device allows you to keep your butter at room temperature, away from harmful influences. The lid holds a pound of butter, the body is filled halfway with water to create a bacteria barrier.
Wood firing is my favorite thing and I’ve been doing more of it this year. I make pots out of stoneware, my friend Mark Rowntree and I have a new clay body we mix ourselves, and the pots go in the kiln largely unglazed. There’s Mark’s little kiln in Philmont, which fires in just over two days, and then every year we go fire Joy Brown’s big anagama in Connecticut with all our other friends. The pots from this kiln are my favorite, the longer I look at them the better I like them. They’re a little more expensive, but oh so worth it.
