+42 Unsalted butter tastes better, amirite?

by Anonymous 6 days ago

This is just wrong.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

No

by Mose87 6 days ago

Your mom tastes better salted though lol.

by rennerrowan 6 days ago

Or you can just buy salted butter because it's homogeneous and removes an extra unnecessary step I find unsalted butter has much more niche usage. Salted butter works even in desserts because a little salt actually helps the flavour.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Aside from like, putting butter on toast, when do you use butter without also adding salt anyway? Basically all recipes call for a bit of salt. I can't think of any niche usages or situations where you actually add an unnecessary step haha

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Buying salted butter would be an unnecessary step, because where I live, it is hard to find. It is not comonly found in grocery stores. Hunting for it wouls require WAAAAAY more effort than adding salt. Plus salted butter has way more salt than I would add into deserts and other sweet things. And having in on toast with something sweet, such as jam or hiney tastes horrible. (to me at least).

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Used to be a sign of wealth to have access to unsalted butter. Salt was added to preserve butter, but if you're so rich to either be able to pay for a faster transportation, or owned a dairy farm, you didn't need to worry about preserving it Nowadays we have refrigeration and it is purely a matter of taste.

by Status-Entertainer 6 days ago

I mean thing is that pretty much a majority of dishes I would be adding butter to are going to end up salted or containing a fair amount of salt anyways so the salted butter is really just skipping a step

by Anonymous 6 days ago

But you don't omit the salt from a recipe just because the butter is salted. Or maybe you do but then you can't control how much salt is in the recipe

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Lol salt is like the only notable flavor component of butter. Go eat some plain celery while you're at it.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Nah celery is disgusting (so it definitely has a flavor)

by Anonymous 6 days ago

I prefer unsalted butter, too, particularly because it allows me to control the salt in my cooking. However, I also think it's important to remember that the food items you are spreading butter on already have salt. So, rather than saying salt doesn't make butter taste any better, it's probably more correct to say that your already salty food doesn't need more salt.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Even if I taste the butter by itself, unsalted still tastes way better than salted. So it's not that the food it's on is already salty (and most bread I use isn't particularly salty anyway)

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Baked bread is about 100-200 mg per slice. So just because it doesn't taste that salty to you doesn't mean there's not a good amount of salt in it.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

Absolutely agree. I want butter that tastes of butter. I love salty foods like you do, but I want to start with a baseline of zero salt and add salt to anything I need as I wish!

by Anonymous 6 days ago

I mean everyone should reduce their sodium and using unsalted butter religiously is for sure a way to do that over most people's practices. But also anything you are putting butter in should be using unsalted butter. You salt the dish you don't want to use salted ingredients or else you won't be able to dial on the salt levels. Accurately

by Treywunsch 6 days ago

A friend told me it feels better when it's going up your ass

by Anonymous 6 days ago

This is the unpopularest opinion.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

everything should come in its natural form. add as you please during food preparation. OJ shouldn't come with added vitamins either

by Ok-Annual6060 6 days ago

Honestly I didnt really care until i started kearning to cook, and unsalted butter is superior in most cases. It just allows more control over the salt levels. Mistakenly adding salt to recipes with salted butter can massively over due the salt levels on some things. That said, i think salted butter does. Have its uses, as well as impars its own flavor and taste better when used corfectly. So for me it depends in what your cooking. Eggs? Salted butter and pepper. Steak? Unsalted butter, SPG seasoning on the meat. Baked goods? Follow the recipe.

by BiscottiDifficult990 6 days ago

Is this unpopular? We accidentally bought salted butter once rather than unsalted and it made things taste disgusting. We'll never buy it again.

by Anonymous 6 days ago

You probably just use better butter in general. But I don't eat butter or salt much, so my opinion is worth zero.

by IllLawfulness5577 6 days ago