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 :)

@Branster OP states that it's difficult to buy unsalted goats butter. People are telling her to buy unsalted goats butter, or saying 'there is a thing called unsalted butter' sarcastically. No need.

Doh! I’m so sorry Rachelover60 and everyone else I was convinced it was near Woolwich UK and in my head I even envisaged a small independent innovative farm because of the location and briefly considered visiting at some point to learn more about what they do slightly different googling required, maybe UK goat farm.
virginpinkmarini thank you, I didn’t pick on that I thought they were genuine advice replies.

It’s an interesting topic this one, I wonder, is the salt added simply for flavouring or does it have a preserving role as well so salted variety lasts longer maybe.
Whole Foods Market are quite hot on rare food products so they might sell the unsalted variety. Or a genuine Greek shop.

I know if you soak feta cheese or olives in water, that reduces the salt content but only through dilution and rinsing process.

I don’t think it would be easy to extract the salt from a fat substance in the home. I imagine somehow you need to separate the water from the product, then you need a condensation process.

Has anyone got kids doing A level chemistry? Surely their teacher would know. It’s not impossible but we need to find the right method for a kitchen.

People are telling her to buy unsalted goats butter, or saying 'there is a thing called unsalted butter' sarcastically. No need.
@virginpinkmartini I made that suggestion about unsalted butter and I was not being sarcastic. I was trying to be helpful and took time to post. I also admitted I hadn't realised it is probably made of cow's milk and not goat's milk.

That's not surprising CatBoy: I googled 'unsalted goat's butter' and some of what came up was not goat's.

I would think the very tiny percentage of salt in some of the goat's butter mentioned which is available here, would not hurt anyone. I'm ordering some from Ocado to be delivered later in the week, prompted by this thread.

Why not make your own butter? Can you get double goats' cream? If you have a mixer it's easy to beat up the cream until it turns to butter.

To remove salt from salted butter you have to beat it up in fresh milk IIRC, then drain the milk out and reform the butter. I read about it in an antique cookbook many years ago, and tried it out of curiosity. Messy and a very unsatisfactory result. Once was enough!

Used to make clarified butter and ghee from salted butter. It did make it taste a little bit less salty I think, but not unsalted. Used to repeat the process 3 times for best results.

Thank you soooooo much for all replies :)
Looking into them but it takes me a while as I have m.e. :(

Why do you need unsalted? Is it for dietary reasons? Because if not, I use salted butter for everything including baking due it's general superiority (IMO) over unsalted butter...

Thank you very much everyone :)
(I posted a reply this morning which was here but now has disappeared!) :(
Are you guys in the uk please?
The recommended brands don't seem to be available here in the uk.

I see both my posts ARE showing now.
When I said not available in the uk I meant the ones which are only sold online.
I know you can buy Delamere and St Helens in uk supermarkets.
Thanks again.

Ok so with the craziness of corona the only butter I can get it salted and I'm baking all our bread from starter as yeast in not available either. My bread is all super salty even after leaving salt completely out other than the butter in the salt of course. And ideas ?

You'd be better off starting a new thread than resurrecting a zombie thread really. How much butter are you using?

Out of interest, why do you prefer goat's butter over cow's?

Leave the butter out or replace it with oil. Works perfectly well IME.

Oh, I missed the date change. How about making soda bread?
www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/irishsodabread_67445

You could get salt out of butter for the purpose of bread making or other cooking by putting some in a jar, adding very hot water to melt it (microwave gently if extra heat needed) and shaking vigorously. This will extract much of the salt into the water and leave you with a butter oil which if allowed to solidify would be a sort of ghee.

Thank you all am going to try the water trick tomorrow almost out of flour can't risk more without trying it lol

On second thoughts, stirring thoroughly would be safer than shaking - if you use a lid on a jar you need to be very careful as obviously the heat will make the air inside expand. You really don't want a buttery scald at the moment!

The aim is to break the butter oil into small droplets and do a solvent extraction on the salt.

Use oil in place of the butter.