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Can anyone actually taste the difference between salted and unsalted butter?

Posted on 10/5/17 at 11:59 pm
Posted by Pico de Gallo
Member since Aug 2016
1894 posts
Posted on 10/5/17 at 11:59 pm
Or is it just a gimmick for health nuts trying to watch their sodium intake?

While eating a stick of fat.
Posted by BigD45
Chambers County, TX
Member since Feb 2007
1158 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:01 am to
You have to use unsalted butter when you're baking and the recipe specifically calls for salt. If you use salted butter, whatever you're cooking will become too salty.
Posted by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
54235 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:01 am to
Butter used in baking is why you have the two butters, other than the fact of salt and blood pressure. My wife bakes and several of her recipes call for unsalted. Why? I haven't a clue. I just eat what she bakes without question.
Posted by Bamboozles
BR
Member since Jul 2008
2312 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:03 am to
For butter made in the US generally speaking it is not a huge difference between salted and unsalted. For true salted butter, try some international brands.....like Amul from India.
Posted by SilverStallion
Member since Aug 2017
1999 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:07 am to
salted butter has a longer shelf life because salt is a preservative. therefore, its common in households that use it for cooking, flavor, etc things.

unsalted butter has a shorter shelf life and is used for baking.

1 stick of salted butter is about 600mg of salt. Unless you're eating a stick of butter for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, there really is no health "benefit" by using unsalted butter in comparison to salted butter. unless you have diabetes which will cause chronic hypertension
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
73681 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:27 am to
I can tell a huge difference.
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
57535 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:35 am to
Grass fed butter is the shite
Posted by Kcrad
Diamondhead
Member since Nov 2010
55069 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 5:11 am to
All day, every day. Get your tastebuds checked.
Posted by RedPop4
Santiago de Compostela
Member since Jan 2005
14429 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:01 am to
Baking is all about chemical reactions, it's damn near a science experiment to bake anything. All measurements have to be precise and followed to the "t", thus unsalted butter so that the salt measurements can be followed properly to ensure that whatever you're baking comes out right.

I'm certain Alton Brown has probably covered something like this.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
57420 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:03 am to
Yes. One is salty, the other one isn't.
Posted by lowhound
Effie
Member since Aug 2014
7589 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:17 am to
One's for cooking, one's for baking. You might not want to put the salted butter in your chocolate cookie recipe
Posted by convertedtiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2010
2786 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:32 am to
Producers can also get away with using inferior grades of milk to make salted butter as the salt will mask the taste. Yes, I can very much taste the difference between the two.
Posted by dawgsjw
Member since Dec 2012
2114 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 9:13 am to
One tastes slightly salty, the other slightly under salty.
Posted by celltech1981
Member since Jul 2014
8139 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 10:01 am to
I use unsalted butter for cooking eggs, deer meat, steak, etc in a skillet since the salt in salted butter is what burns. You better believe I used salted butter on grilled cheese, biscuits, toast, etc. I also can tell a difference between the regular land o lakes shite and the kerrygold irish butter. I put kerrygold unsalted butter in my coffee every morning.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
140462 posts
Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:01 pm to
quote:

Can anyone actually taste the difference between salted and unsalted butter?
hold on, let me ask my personal chef.
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