2-Piece Ceramic Butter Warmer Set with Tea Lights

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 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!

Was looking for a item to melt butter with a pour spout for microwave popcorn This works great It came up short one star because it has a pour hole in the handle, which leaves water in the handle if placed in dishwasher, then if you microwave it the steam gets the handle extremely hot, so hand wash only for safty Also great for heating up syrup for breakfast in small quantities and any other small liquid jobs

I needed something to melt butter to make it easier to butter toast. I don’t use the candle part, but the warmers are excellent when you used in the microwave. Clean up is easy, they’re easy to handle.

These are great for melting the butter to use as sauce to pour over meats, veggies…anything. It takes less than a minute to melt the butter. I love these and wondered why I hadn’t bought them earlier.

They work great

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

I thought that I’d use these for wax. I received 5 days ago. Used every day since with no issues but i used an old tea light that i had (i usually use a new one each time) and it caught fire somehow. I dont think it has anything to do with the product tho, just the tea light. I got really lucky because the flame was huge, because it was wax and oil(?) water only made it worse. Somehow the curtains didnt catch fire but i wont be using this again due to safety and the open flame aspect.