Well, Raedwulf, if it's December and your butter's a little hard and you urgently need to butter a couple of soft, floury baps, the microwave is the ideal ten-second solution. Either that, or you leave great, thick, unspread dollops of butter on your baps, or you tear your baps to smithereens in a vain attempt to spread the butter. And, for the benefit of the dirty-minded, I said a couple of soft, floury baps, not a couple of soft, flowery baps. Though why not, but only with the best butter...