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

Posted on 10/6/17 at 5:11 am to
Posted by Kcrad
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 5:11 am to
All day, every day. Get your tastebuds checked.
Posted by RedPop4
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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
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:03 am to
Yes. One is salty, the other one isn't.
Posted by When in Rome
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:08 am to
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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.
This. Also, Plugra unsalted European is the goat baking butter.
Posted by lowhound
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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
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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
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 9:13 am to
One tastes slightly salty, the other slightly under salty.
Posted by CAD703X
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 9:44 am to
Oh for the love of God gave you never cooked anything in your life?

Unsalted butter tastes like cream and adds no flavor to your waffles.

Salted butter tastes like..... Wait for it....BUTTER!

They don't even remotely taste the same.

Use unsalted for making Christmas goodies
Posted by celltech1981
Member since Jul 2014
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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 Ed Osteen
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 10:05 am to
Sick joke bro
Posted by When in Rome
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 10:06 am to
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I put kerrygold unsalted butter in my coffee every morning.
All the keto people do this. I don't understand the whole butter-in-coffee thing.
Posted by CAD703X
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 10:08 am to
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don't understand the whole butter-in-coffee thing.


Do you even dairy? Unsalted butter is.....CREAM
Posted by When in Rome
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 10:09 am to
Yeah, I get that. I just think mentally it's hard for me to get over it.

The idea of dropping a chunk of butter into my coffee just doesn't feel the same as pouring some milk or creamer into my coffee.

I would also add that I don't get the adding coconut oil to coffee thing either.
This post was edited on 10/6/17 at 10:12 am
Posted by CAD703X
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 10:10 am to
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the salt in salted butter is what burns

Wat

That's funny because I sprinkle kosher salt in an iron skillet that I let get screeching hot for 30 minutes prior to putting in my filets and the salt stays white
This post was edited on 10/6/17 at 10:12 am
Posted by dawgsjw
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 11:53 am to
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Oh for the love of God gave you never cooked anything in your life?
Are you kidding me? I can out cook you I'm sure of that. Anyway, most shelfs know to use unsalted butter. Plus you sound like a fatty talking about waffles. gross
Posted by HeyHeyHogsAllTheWay
Member since Feb 2017
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 11:58 am to
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Never heard of grass-fed butter before, but hell, I don't see the big hubbub over grass-fed beef either. I suppose the cow eating grass gives the beef and/or milk a different flavor than ond being fed corn, grain, or other supplements. Might have something to do with the fact that the sumbitches are actually made to eat grass too.


As someone who raises beef cattle, Allow me. Cattle digest the grass better than they digest the grains, which absolutely allows for a better tasting beef.

Grain , on the other hand, will fatten a steer up faster than grass will. Meaning more weight at the sale barn.


I prefer a mixture of the two, Some grain to supplement the grass.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:01 pm to
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but hell, I don't see the big hubbub over grass-fed beef either

grassfed beef is gross to me. way to dry and burgers come out grey
Posted by SuperSaint
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:01 pm to
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Can anyone actually taste the difference between salted and unsalted butter?
hold on, let me ask my personal chef.
Posted by rmnldr
Member since Oct 2013
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:10 pm to
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Anyway, most shelfs know to use unsalted butter.
m

Just asked my shelf and it didn't respone
Posted by biglego
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 12:42 pm to
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grassfed beef is gross to me. way to dry and burgers come out grey

Yes but corn-fed beef is like a GMO cocktail science experiment that'll cause death by dick cancer and ooga booga
This post was edited on 10/6/17 at 12:45 pm
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