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What should be in butter?
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Salt is not an optional ingredient.
Unsalted butter is a crime against cuisine.
Thank you for self-reporting, criminal. Please stand by, the butter police will arrive shortly.
I would like to say that while this is clearly made in jest, unsalted butter is a requirement for some really great recipes, and also some people are on say a low sodium diet. I put it as optional, because I'm a mature person and don't yuck other people's yum.
I use unsalted butter almost exclusively so I can more easily control the salt content of my dishes
Why do people even combine butter and salt? Why not keep them separate, I think every kitchen I've ever seen has salt in it
Traditionally, salted butter was way saltier than our modern salted butter and it was a way to make it last longer before we had refrigeration and pasteurisation
When using butter as a spread it's nice to have some salt incorporated. A salt shaker is very easy to overdo on something light like toast or pancakes.
Salted butter is a condiment.
Unsalted butter is an ingredient.
Do you eat butter straight? When you cook with butter you can add salt as needed, it's much harder to remove salt that's already there.
Unsalted butter should be used when cooking specifically because you can control the salt level yourself directly by... Adding salt. It's easy to add salt, but very difficult to rebalance a dish when something is too salty.
Salted butter should be used when you're adding it to something that's already done, like when buttering toast.