No-one actually bothers with unsalted butter do they?

[OnlyANinja]

I like to eat salted butter.

So that's what I have in the house.

Why would I buy another kind of butter that, if I were to fancy a slice of toast, it would be no good?

Buttercream.

It's for baking with

Yes buttercream, and some cakes. Otherwise agree.

I do. Love it on crackers, but use it for all my baking as well.

I prefer it.

I don't often buy it, but I do quite like it on toast occasionally, quite like the taste!

better for baking, and I've not bothered to have a second type in the house, I don't miss the salt on toast. I do wonder why anyone bothers with the salted kind, why not buy one type and if you need to, add salt?

I buy salted for eating and unsalted for baking

I much prefer president unsalted to the salted kind but try to keep salt to a minimum really.

I prefer unsalted. I used to buy both - salted for crackers and sandwiches, unsalted for baking and buttercream. Then i must have run out of salted and had some cheese on crackers with unsalted butter, and found I preferred it.

Unsalted because I'm conscious of the salt levels in the kids food. Not that we use huge amounts anyway

I only buy unsalted since I mostly use butter for baking and I don't really like anything salty.

I do, I don't like salty cakes.

Loads of recipes state unsalted butter, even savoury ones (I think it has something to do with the stability when heated to high temperatures) but unsalted butter when given to spread on bread is one of life's great disappointments.

Even sweet things like butter cream are better IMHO of that tiny bit of salt.

I prefer the taste and buy unsalted all the time. Why would I purchase something that I don't like as much when I can have the butter I really like the taste?

That would be wrong which ever way around the purchase.

I use unsalted for baking, and a salted/spreadable one to go on bread etc.

Have just eaten DD2's school cookery lesson cake, made with chocolate buttercream, only had ordinary butter this morning so that's what she took, and it's gorgeous. Although I would say that about my darling DD wouldn't I!

You can all relax about the salt levels. Salt is fine. We need salt. If your diet is really too high in salt then the amount in slightly salted butter is really niether here not there.

Well for some of us cutting down on salt is pretty important so easy things like using unsalted rather salted butter is just a very simple thing to do. Also as I said - I prefer the taste.

I use unsalted butter for baking with and I use salted anchor for everything else :o

Of course we need salt, but given our western diet it is actually pretty hard to avoid.

It is easy for the kids to get too much salt, as it is in so many staples - just a couple of slices of bread is most of their daily allowance - add salted butter to that, not even thinking about cheese etc.

We do. Bother with it I mean. It's lovely. The children always nag me to buy salted but I never do. Mwhahahahaha.

I use it

but then I am a miserable puritan. Not enough to use marge, though

when I have salted butter, it tastes like fucking marmite by comparison and is of course delicious

I find unsalted butter makes buttercream too sickly. I use salted for baking as well. Shortbread made with unsalted butter is a bit tasteless.

For bread and toast I use Lurpak slightly salted spreadable. MIL buys salted butter and when we stay with her I now find salted butter on bread or toast too salty.

Got into the habit when cooking for babies, never went back to salted. Given that we all like eating bread them we've got very little room in our diets for any more salt.