Getting salt out of butter

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Does anyone know how to remove salt from butter please?
I use goat's butter and it's very difficult to buy it unsalted.
Thanks guys :)

I'm not sure you can. You could always make your own and not add salt, it's quite easy. Bit time consuming if you don't have a food processor or a willing small assistant to shake a jar.

I dont think that's possible, I'm sorry to say. What you can do is make your own goats butter by either buying a jar churner, or shaking goat cream/ high fat milk in a jar until solidified.

Buy unsalted butter?

Umm yes you can’t do that.....

There is a product called unsalted butter. You will find it in the refrigerated department next to the other brands of butter and margarine. It's usually used for baking cakes/buns. You can buy 125g blocks.

I don’t think you can as it’s been dissolved and dispersed already, you’d need to extract the water first I guess.
If you find an answer please update as I’m curious now.
Why do you need unsalted butter for? If it’s for a cake recipe than salted butter is fine. If it’s for health reasons then you simply have to give up goat’s butter until you find a ready made unsalted version.

I agree, if it is for baking salted goats butter would work just as well you can always add slightly less salt to the bake you are making.

Here in Sweden salted butter is the norm and we always bake/cook with it - so I just wanted to reassure you that taste wise that's fine. But perhaps you had other reasons for wanting salt-free butter?

Unhelpful sarky comments on here. If you had read the post properly then you would see it is unsalted goats butter that is required. I buy goats butter and there is usually only one available in the supermarket and that is salted.

I agree with helpful comments. It isn't hard to make your own so would give that a go.

No advice but I am now curious to try goat's butter! How does it taste compared to cow butter?

I always use salted in cakes and buttercream icing and it’s absolutely fine.

We once had a French woman be very surprised when feeding out kids breakfast, that they were willing to eat salted butter. Apparently French kids won't eat it! I don't think I've ever had unsalted.

#completelyrandomandunhelpful, sorry.

salted butter can be used in all the same ways unsalted can.

I have never seen goat's butter in our supermarket. It might be in the speciality section or a health food shop may stock it. The unsalted butter I was referring to is probably made from cow's milk.

It is possible to extract most of the salt from salted butter, but it is absolutely not worth the effort, the time or the mess.

Just use it as-is. I use salted butter for everything, including sweet foods.

How on Earth would you go about getting salt out of butter?!

Delamare goats butter is only lightly salted if that's any help.
www.planetorganic.com/delamere-goat-butter-250g-250g/528/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4OC4oLSK5QIVhbHtCh1MXwJoEAQYBCABEgJ2X_D_BwE

I believe this one which you can buy from Waitrose online is unsalted - or again lightly salted.
www.planetorganic.com/delamere-goat-butter-250g-250g/528/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4OC4oLSK5QIVhbHtCh1MXwJoEAQYBCABEgJ2X_D_BwE

I know nothing about getting salt out of goats butter. I realise there are some medical conditions where low salt is indicated but that usually means no added salt, it wouldn't apply to butter or spreads because there's a limit to how much of that you would have anyway.

You could try mixing goats butter with unsalted margerine.

PS The Delamare butter can also be bought online from Waitrose/Ocado, they also do a spreadable version.

I might try it!

@TheGoodEnoughWife Sad, isn't it. People don't know anything about the OP but think it's okay to condescend.

Yep, think they are so clever.

Although most goats' butter is salted, there's less salt in it than normal butter. This is because goats' butter has a taste that doesn't require heavy salting. You could directly appeal to a producer and ask them to make you some. You'd probably have to buy several kilos but it does freeze very well.

I love goats cheese. Does the butter taste similar.

There are quite a few unsalted goats butter suppliers on line. You can buy unsalted, as I said upthread!

I don’t understand where are the condescending comments. Every single answer is trying to be helpful, even if a couple don’t specifically say goat butter (easy to overlook in a hurry).
Anyway, this is the first google search, maybe if you contact them they can advise which shops they supply? www.woolwichdairy.com/en/products/goat-butter/unsalted-goat-butter
Or try small independent farm shops?

Oh thanks for that, Branster (not that I'm worried about unsalted, low salt is fine for me). It's interesting though. My first thought was, "Where is there a goat farm in Woolwich?", thinking of London SE18. Of course they're in Canada, d'oh.