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?

I never buy salted butter. I don't understand what it's for.

"I don't understand what it's for."

Taste. Shortbread and crumble topping made with unsalted butter tastes insipid. Buttercream made with unsalted butter is too sickly.

Apparently professional chefs use salted butter in baking because the results are tastier.

That's what salted butter is for.

I don't know that that's true. I just googled 'Do professional chefs use salted or unsalted butter?' and the top 20 results were all adamant that chefs use unsalted butter.

Anyhow, salt tastes of salt. If I were minded to spread my toast with salt, I could do so. I am not so minded.

I use unsalted because I prefer it, rather than for any health reasons.

The only thing I will say is we at one point reduced to a minimum the amount of salt we used in cooking and it made it IMPOSSIBLE to eat out because we became hyper-sensitive to the taste of salt.

I'ld rather ad SALT to baking if required and see exactly how much was going in than buy salted butter

I read that on another thread about salted v unsalted butter on a foodie forum. I must be gullible .

I admit to finding salted butter too salty for toast, but not for cooking with. I use Lurpak slightly salted spreadable for toast and sandwiches.

I don't put either on toast though, there are so many tastier spreads!

What is tastier than butter?

But you just add a pinch of salt when you're baking. I do.

Salted every time especially in baking. We use so little the amount of salt is of no worry at all.

It is just easier to use salted in the first place because I have no requirement for unsalted butter.

The slightly salted is lovely on toast.

Another vote for salted. Biting into something with unsalted butter when you're expecting salted is such a disappointment and a waste of calories on a load of flavourless grease :(

On a cookery show recently they were saying that the reason that lots of recipes say unsalted butter but then to add salt in too is that apparently unsalted butter has lower levels of water in it and you get more control over the actual levels of salt in the final result but that actually it was fine to use salted if you had it and they would in 'normal life'.

And unfortunately lots of high google ranked articles/ 'votes' for unsalted butter just means that some canny seo person for lurpak or president etc have managed to get that result - as far as being a true answer to the question it's about as valid as tossing a coin in the air 20 times and using that as an answer!

I love them both,but unsalted is better for my blood pressure.

Salted all the way! Yum, yum