Life Hack: Can you soften butter straight out of a fridge with just a hot glass?

Does this actually work? We put it to the test

This could change my lazy baking ways

I’ve lost count of the times I’ve needed to use room-temperature butter in a recipe only to realise I didn’t take it out of the fridge earlier that day.

Normally I’m faced with two choices: wait for the butter to soften, which realistically means the baking doesn't happen, or heat the butter. I don’t know about most people but I struggle to time a microwave correctly for this so instead of soft butter I almost always end up with liquified butter and I don't want to mess a pan for just this.