1. Use a glass or ceramic butter dish.

2. Instead, keep your stick in a covered butter dish on a top or middle shelf.

3. This can be done by pressing it into a plastic container, the top of a butter dish or any container that will give it the shape you desire. Then place it in the refrigerator to harden.

4. I took a stick of butter from the fridge. I lifted the lid on the butter dish.

5. I can't explain how it made its way into the butter dish on Thanksgiving Day.