The French Butter Dish

I know for myself, I tend to eat a lotta butter on the Atkins diet. If I wanted soft butter on the spot, i'd have to microwave what I needed.  It usually ends up getting runny and that's not what you normally want to happen.  I invested (23.95 plus shipping) in a french style butter dish.  You can put 1-2 sticks of butter into it and it sits in water, so it stays fresh, room temp - soft!  The water makes contact with the butter and it creates a seal so that the oxygen doesn't get to it.  What cool about ordering it from the individual that I did, is that each dish is unique, no 2 are the same.  I thought about looking for a cheaper one, but with his, he adds a hole on the side of the cone that holds the butter so it has more contact with the water (better freshness).  Plus, i think it's great when you can support an individual instead of a corporation.  Here's the link to his site: http://www.frenchbutterdish.com/index.php