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You lift up the lid/bell.
Ooohhh I see. What a weird and very French contraption.
and the butter come with the lid, or stay in the water?
You put the butter in the bell part. The butter sticks. You then put some water in the crock and put the bell in the crock. The bell/butter displaces some water and it prevents air from getting to the butter.
Imo it's silly; there's no real issue just leaving butter in a dish at room temp.
Leaving butter out is definitely not a safe practice. Modern butter is not shelf stable and needs to be stored in the refrigerator.
Old style butter, which had a large amount of salt as a preservative, was safe to leave out for long periods of time, but this is no longer true.
https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Is-butter-safe-at-room-temperature