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Post by quinlove on Dec 28, 2022 15:58:20 GMT
I really have no preference. When shopping for the holidays, I stood way too long at the butter section, trying to decide. HEB has packages of 2 now, which is perfect.
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Post by StephDRebel on Dec 28, 2022 15:59:15 GMT
I don't know that i really can tell a difference honestly. I think he buys salted in sticks and I use kerrygold most of the time. I grew up on nothing but processed foods so I probably just expect everything to be salted.
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Post by elaine on Dec 28, 2022 16:09:03 GMT
I’m not particular about salted or unsalted. I use unsalted more just to cut down on sodium but always have both in my refrigerator and will use salted if I think it would really enhance the flavor of something. Huh, I guess I’ve never thought to put apple/pumpkin butter in the “butter” category as they have no butter in them. I do love a good compounded butter though. I called it "apple butter and honey butter", because that is what it's called in the restaurants when it's served with the rolls, bread basket, etc... I don't care for either flavor. I'm not a foodie, so I have no idea what it's called then. Is it considered a condiment? A sauce? I wonder why restaurants always refer to it as butter, if it's not butter. I'm curious, about what it is supposed to be called or classified as? Honey butter is usually butter that has honey whipped into it and is butter. I think it is Texas Roadhouse that usually serves their amazing rolls with honey butter on the table (I think they also add cinnamon to it?). I don’t like it on my bread, but I do like it on the sweet potato I always get as one of my sides when we eat there (occasionally). Apple butter, as explained above, is just real apples and spices that have been cooked down into a syrupy jam. Same with pumpkin butter. There is no dairy or butter in it at all. 😃 |
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Post by CardBoxer on Dec 28, 2022 16:15:00 GMT
Speaking of fruit “butters,” the best I ever ate was pumpkin butter made by a Bethesda, Maryland restaurant that’s no longer in business, Thyme Square.
Land of Lakes has a honey butter that I bought once. It was okay but if that’s the flavor I want I prefer butter (or butter with canola oil which is what I buy) and I’ll put a little honey on top.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Dec 28, 2022 16:22:21 GMT
I use salted for everything and it has to be real butter. I've heard the butter in the US is different to the butter in Europe. I don't know but I hate 'fake butter' spreads. The butter in the US has a lower butterfat content. I buy European butter for bread, rolls etc. It's significantly more expensive so I use US butter for cooking or baking where the butter isn't a huge component of the flavor (shortbread cookies which are 90% butter, I use European) And in terms of the poll - salted for pretty much everything. |
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Post by elaine on Dec 28, 2022 16:25:17 GMT
I am surprised, although I shouldn’t be - we are the peas, in our glorious diversity, after all - with how many prefer salted butter. My Dh would be happy in your kitchens. 😆
I also find it interesting with how many can’t taste the difference - to me it is pretty stark. But, we don’t use much salt here at home.
I remember during college when I would eat dorm food - which was highly salted - food, when I visited my mom, would seem so bland and I salted it much more. Over the summers, when I cooked for myself, my sensitivity to salt would change and dorm food would taste salty at the beginning of the year when I started back, but then I grew accustomed to. Apparently, salt is one of those things that I am weirdly sensitive to.
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Post by mimima on Dec 28, 2022 17:11:42 GMT
I didn't know that people used salted butter. I see it at the store, but have never bought it.
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Post by Basket1lady on Dec 28, 2022 17:29:38 GMT
I serve salted butter with bread/for meals, but cook and bake only with unsalted butter. I keep the unsalted butter in the freezer until I need it.
In fact, I forgot to buy salted sticks for Christmas dinner. DH uses Land O’Lakes butter in the tub for meals and I didn’t think of it because I have a dairy allergy. I served lasagna and was proud of myself for remembering to buy Parmesan cheese, but forgot about butter for the bread.
For 99% of recipes, you can use salted butter in a recipe and just omit adding any more salt. But since I usually only have sticks for baking, I buy unsalted.
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Post by Katie on Dec 28, 2022 18:01:47 GMT
DH was recently put on a strict low sodium diet, so we switched to unsalted butter and I don’t mind one bit. We only buy KerryGold butter.
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Post by gizzy on Dec 28, 2022 18:08:12 GMT
I always buy salted butter except my last trip to Costco, they just had the unsalted.
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Dec 28, 2022 18:15:12 GMT
I use salted for everything.
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Post by cmpeter on Dec 28, 2022 19:48:29 GMT
Generally salted for everything. I have never noticed a difference in a baked recipe using salted vs. unsalted butter, even if the recipe calls for unsalted.
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Post by elaine on Dec 28, 2022 19:55:24 GMT
Generally salted for everything. I have never noticed a difference in a baked recipe using salted vs. unsalted butter, even if the recipe calls for unsalted. The issue with salt in baking (meaning breads, cakes, cookies - not cooking/baking other things like veggies, meat/poultry, casseroles, etc., in the oven) is that salt affects how yeast and other leavening agents work, not the taste so much. Additional salt, even small amounts, can literally change the texture of baked goods. |
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Dec 28, 2022 22:33:29 GMT
I typically use salted for everything, because I prefer the taste (I love salt, LOL) but I'll use/eat any variety. If I'm baking I'll sometimes use unsalted, but if all I have is salted I just adjust the amount of added salt in the recipe. So for the poll, I selected the [apparently unpopular] option of " I'll eat any butter put before me".  |
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Dec 28, 2022 23:58:18 GMT
We had a milk cow for a few years when I was young—age 11 or so when we got her. I helped Mom churn butter, and we never added salt. OMG it was so good. I have never purchased butter as an adult that tasted that good.
Before and after the cow, Mom always bought margarine, so it’s quite possible that the comparison to margarine made the butter taste so good in my memory LOL.
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Post by lucyg on Dec 29, 2022 1:39:28 GMT
I use unsalted for baking, and salted for everything else.
Yes, I can taste the difference on toast, etc.
(But I do buy the KerryGold Irish butter for eating/cooking. Whatever’s on sale for the unsalted. I guess I could get the good stuff, but it’s habit.)
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 29, 2022 3:51:46 GMT
I buy both and always have some of each on hand in my freezer. We use salted for eating and cooking and certain recipes for baking that call specifically for salted butter. For other recipes that call for unsalted butter I’ll use that.
We generally don’t use unsalted butter for eating because we usually leave it out on the counter and in the summer unsalted could get rancid in the heat.
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Post by cmpeter on Dec 29, 2022 16:03:35 GMT
I haven’t made a yeasted item that also calls for butter…so I can’t comment on that. But I do make cakes, cookies, scones, muffins, etc and have never had an issue with salted butter. Not just in terms of taste.
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Post by christinec68 on Dec 29, 2022 16:09:06 GMT
I only use unsalted butter when a baking recipe specifically calls for it. Otherwise, only salted butter. If a restaurant puts unsalted butter on the table with bread, I'll add salt.
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