Swedish butter knife smörkniv

The butter knife is a type of cutlery used to spread dairy products or other soft toppings on sandwiches, and elsewhere were.  Butter knives are usually constructed of wood and do not have a sharp blade. Just about every Swedish home has several of them in their cutlery drawer, and if you go to a souvenir store, you're likely to find lots of them, sometimes with an elk or Viking motif carved into the handles.

Dairy in total, particularly butter, plays an important role in the Swedish diet, since it only became truly accessible to the majority after WWII, therefore the knife is frequently used to spread butter or Bregott, an oil-based spread, over crispbread knäckebröd or open sandwiches, smörgsar. edge. Beautifully presented for the holidays.

This Swedish butter knife smörkniv has no blade but is rounded for easy distribution.

 Individuals from neighboring countries, like Finland, Norway, and Estonia, rushed in to say they, too, had wooden butter knives and that one of the reasons they're so popular is that it's a common early woodwork or handicraft project in classrooms.