(These will spend the next week wilting alongside your margarine, but let’s not think about that right now.) Do you have a lemon at home? You should probably grab a lemon, two to be safe. You will contemplate asking the high-schooler stocking shelves if they sell edible flowers, chicken out, and just grab some fresh herbs instead. ![]() To assemble a butter board for one, you will look deviously at the half-used tub of margarine in your fridge before Googling “local butter near me.” You will make your way to some sort of a Whole Foods and purchase the most expensive stick of butter your shopping cart has ever seen. As someone who has long worshiped at the altar of the dip dinner - a meal comprised entirely of various dips - a butter board is but another delectable idol. Are butter boards safe? Are they a more accessible alternative to the high-end cheese boards? Are they a manifestation of our desire to eat food off of anything but a plate and, in turn, “ infantilizing”? Are they literally just butter atop a board? Historians will never know.Ī post shared by Joshua McFadden one is making a butter board just for themselves - I mean, if they are, more power to them,” chef McFadden told the Washington Post, which I took as a challenge rather than a warning. Are you Team Butter Board or Anti-Butter Board? We now have an entire butter-board discourse. It’s a delicious encapsulation of the internet’s collective desire to turn any small moment into a capital-M Moment, to assign value to something as innocuous as butter. (Would you rather eat a butter board or put a loaded gun in your mouth?) “I was not expecting this to blow up,” Doiron wrote in a comment beneath her initial TikTok, “but YOU CAN USE A KNIFE JUST LIKE A CHEESEBOARD CALM YOURSELVES.” ( Why is everyone talking about butter boards?) This, of course, came in tandem with inexplicable outrage. ( What even is a butter board?) Next, came the media-propelled assertion that this new-fangled craze was everywhere. (Have you heard of a butter board?) Then, the confusion. Over the past few weeks, butter boards have seeped their way into internet vernacular. Who knew butter could be so beautiful? At the end of her 28-second video, which loops seamlessly back to the start, Doiron recommends serving the board with warm bread during your next dinner party. The butter board Doiron creates is gorgeous, topped with flaky salt, lemon zest, red onion, and edible flowers. In her butter-board video, Doiron says she was inspired by chef Joshua McFadden, who includes instructions on how to make a butter board in his 2017 cookbook Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables. They are the audiovisual equivalent to having mommy rub your back as you fall asleep. If you’re unfamiliar with Doiron, her food videos, especially ones in which she is making toast, are soothing in their simplicity and gentle in their delivery. On September 15, cook Justine Doiron (a.k.a. In part because the dish is self-explanatory: a charcuterie-inspired board spread with butter, topped with various herbs, lemon, honey, salt, etc., and served with bread. ![]() ![]() Photo-Illustration: by The Cut Photo: make a butter board, you must first accept a few undeniable truths: (1) you will do whatever the internet tells you to do, (2) you will probably like it, and (3) you are about to consume an unforgivable amount of butter.Īt this point, I don’t need to tell you what a butter board is. A still from the TikTok that started it all.
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