210 Ceramic Butter Warmers, Set of 2, 1/3 cup/3 oz., White

Perfect for a apple dipping bar or even a seafood boil. The Perfect size and best price that I found. Great quality

Yes, you must adjust the amount of heat from your candle by adjusting the wick length. If your wick is too long you will experience what many other reviewers have mentioned: a boil over. If your wick is too short, well, you won't have hot running butter. Also you do not want to use the candle that came with the kit. You want to switch to a regular tealight candle with an aluminum "cup" /holder. I will explain that in a little bit. The ceramic butter warmer is nicely sized. It holds about 1.5 to 2 TBSP of butter (1/4" to 1/2" cut of butter out of a standard stick of store-bought butter). When I say "holds 1.5-2 TBSP" I mean that at the half-full mark of the ceramic butter warmer it's about 2 TBSP of butter. You do NOT want to fill to the brim with hot butter. The warmer actually holds a lot more fluid volume but, once again, you do not want to fill more than 1/2 or 2/3 full. You need to leave room so when you dip your food you don't cause an overrun of hot, melted butter out of the bowl and that hot butter will be in instant contact with an open flame. Not fun. So, fill to about 1/2 full only. The amount of melted butter at the 1/2-full mark is just about right amount of butter for the entire meal. The pour spout did not work as well as it would have seemed. In fact, I wish this product did not come with a pour spout. You will be tempted to use the pour spout and pour. Yes, good for the food but immediately you are faced with a dilemma: hot oil/butter/cheese now dripping down the side of the bowl and you either 1) immediately try to wipe it up, or 2) burn it off with your candle as you put the warmer back on the open flame. Well, I prefer the wiping-off option as I desire less the possibility of fire. It's a bit annoying to have to wipe when you can't find your napkin to begin with. hehehe... Some other products do not have a pour spout. Good idea. This bowl is designed for you to dip your food in. It is not a gravy boat for you to pour stuff out of it. Sure you can accomplish that but I hate having to wipe. Unlike a gravy boat where is no open flame...there is definitely a problem here. You get my point. The metal wire rack is lightly constructed and it is not super strong. Well it's strong enough to hold up the bowl I suppose that's good enough. I am not expecting to use the wire rack for any other purpose other than holding up the bowl full of butter. The bottom of the rack does not have any sticky "feet" to help hold the rack in place on a slippery wood table or granite counter top. The rack is covered with a smooth, slick surface material that is aesthetically pleasing, but functionally poor. I'd prefer a stickier surface material to help the rack+bowl from sliding around. The candle that came with the kit does NOT have an aluminum cup as seen in a common tealight. Problem? Yes. When you use it you will soon realize that the melted hot wax is now embedded inside the metal candle holder and it's hard to get candle wax out again. If you had used a tealight, you could simply pop out the aluminum candle cup and discard it without leaving any residue of wax. Now the wick. A standard tealight has about 1/4" of wick. If you light it as-is you will produce a lot of heat. Long wick = tall flame = a lot of heat. You will definitely boil the butter to cause a melt down. Many reviewers have reflected this issue in their comments. What you want to do is trim the wick. I experimented with different length of wick and I found the 1/8" length is just perfect. At 1/8" wick the heat is just right--the butter is piping hot but never boiling. You can trim it shorter or longer, obviously. I tried one slightly more than 1/8" and it caused a "mild/low simmer" of the butter but still not enough to boil over. Also because the butter was no more than 1/2 full in the bowl. So, there. Trim the wick and you will have a perfect product. Too long of a wick you will have boiling over butter and butter that gets in contact with open flame will flare up, smoke up, or burn. You can also use a pair of tweezers to tug on the wick to make it longer or shorter on the fly. Say you think you butter is too cool or too hot, use the tweezers to turn up or down the heat. Simple as that. The ceramic bowl washes well in the dishwasher. Considering some minor improvements this product can work on, it is overall a 4+ star or 4.5+ star. The handle on the ceramic bowl gave that extra half star push to make this a 5-star product. See, unlike other butter warmers, you CAN grasp the ceramic bowl by he handle (it will be cool to touch) and you can temporally move the bowl away from the fire---say, passing the bowl around the table, or let it cool slightly by your own plate, or pour if you really, really want to.. etc. etc. The other butter warmers (without the handle) you will have a hard time passing around a HOT bowl of hot butter from person to person. This cool-to-touch handle allows you to do so much more with this butter warmer that you cannot do with the other brands (without the handle). So I have to give extra credit to this design superiority. And this product is equally priced comparing to other products. All things considered, 5-star product.

I love crab and lobster so these work wonderfully to keep the butter melted and warm the entire meal. They were larger than I expected so that was a plus. Handle and pour spout make it easy to pour butter over a dish and handle does not get hot, only slightly warm. Only minor complaint is that the tea light is so close to the base of the ceramic dish that it gets a little too hot after continued use and the butter will start to boil. I simply blow out the candle or remove the dish from the heat until it cools down a bit. Overall I'm very satisfied with this product, it's a great value and works as expected.

I actually purchased these items for making cosmetics. I'm making natural lip balm, insect repellent, and hand salve. I needed a tiny tripod to burn tea lights under my wax tarts. I melt them in a reusable tin, and the tin sits in my teeny tiny Lodge cast iron skillet. I used the crockery/butter warmer to melt and pour my wonderful lip balm. I was very surprised at the quality of both the metal tripod that holds the tea light (sturdy and well-designed, with the little stand a safe distance from the flame) and the stoneware crock. The handle is actually usable, and stays a bit cooler than I expected. The spout is really small, but the hot lip balm poured decently well. Overall, an extremely good deal and better quality than you usually expect these days. Elegant enough for a white tablecloth and some lobster!

I wish we could give 1/2 stars as this really is a 4.5 star review. The ceramic ramekins work great in holding enough butter to get through a pound of crab legs. I had no problems setting up the pots with the candle. I do take off a half star because the candle is too close to the pot and it caused the butter to scorch a bit when most of it was gone. So be warned, if you hear sizzling noise coming from the pot, double check the amount of butter or remove the pot from the stand and let it cool for a minute or so. Good luck!

these are nice butter warmers & seem to be well made. My only complaint is that the set is delivered with tea-lights but the candles are not the kind with a metal bottom that contain the melted wax. you can use the candles that came with the set if you don't mind taking the time to scrap the melted wax out and scratching up the finish. other then that these warmers work great. The butter dose get extremely hot because the pots sit low on the candle but if you trim the wick down a little the flame is not so hot. the ceramic handles of the butter warmers stay cool enough to move off the flame. The base is stable and flat (no wobble on the table), these are Very easy to clean. (dishwasher safe) we like these so much plan on buying two more sets.

These are super cute. They're pretty small - basically personal size. Holds about 3/4 cup of liquid each. The crock holders don't look like much, but they serve their purpose - the crocks didn't wobble or spill. I call these my lazy fondue - I tried to melt cheese in it without much success, but it's great for keeping butter melted or sauces hot. Great for hors d'oeuvres where you need multiple sauces but don't want to do a huge pot of fondue! Nice quality, great price.

I used this product to warm my butter at a crab feed. It came with candles. The handles on the pot were perfect, because I did not burn my hands. It warmed my butter quickly and I was able to pour warm butter over my crab. Clean up was easy. It was small enough to transport to and from the event. I should have purchased utensils to go with it.