Kitchen

[Desertdi]

The amount of salt in butter is minimal.   It was originally added as a preservative.

[J Town Girl]

I use unsalted butter in baking and cooking but I use Kerry Gold salted butter for our table use.  I'm not really too concerned because we use very little butter.  I'll put a very small amount on my toast or english muffin but my husband seldom uses butter at all.  He prefers almond butter or a low sugar jam or jelly.

This time of the year he is into the pumpkin butter from Trader Joe's.   There's no worry of having to share it with me.  I cannot stand the taste of pumpkin.  

[msgb]

Unsalted butter is the only thing that my husband and I use.

I bake a lot and many of the recipes call for unsalted.

The two of us are also sensitive to salt and I tend to think that salted butter is over salted in my taste.

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[Snooky60]

@Carmie - ohhh. Thanks for this info. I usually get the unsalted but sometimes we like to leave butter out to spread easier. Maybe I'll have some salted on hand for that purpose. 💗

[loriqvc]

I think it really depends on the brand as to whether there's a major difference between salted and unsalted butter. I learned this the hard way years ago; I was out running errands late in the evening and happened to be stopping by Target on the way home, so I just bought the store-brand salted butter there like I typically did at my local grocery store. I was using it for baking, but I had always used salted butter in my recipe with no concerns, so I didn't think twice and baked my cake as usual. We were absolutely shocked and disgusted when we dug into that cake the next day—it was a total salt bomb! (And my family has more salty/savory than super-sweet people in general.)

Needless to say, even though I sometimes splurge on the very nice (and expensive) unsalted butters for specialty breads or occasions where the butter will be more of the star, I have returned to my trusty local store-brand salted butter for everyday use and won't be tempted to stray again anytime soon...