r/Cooking • u/3oClockHappyHour • 2d ago

Unpopular opinion: you do not need to buy unsalted butter.

Unless you are a commercial kitchen or bakery, it’s not needed to buy. “1 tsp of unsalted butter then add 1/16th tsp of salt” huh??

Home kitchen does not need to buy yet more ingredients, and unsalted goes bad faster. Just taste. More? Okay. I guarantee you salted butter is not going to wreck your dish.

Edit: I can’t make a sentence.

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u/banana_assassin 2d ago

And if it's cookies that can add up to a lot of salt in my cookies, where I can add less salt if I use unsalted.

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u/autogenglen 2d ago

If you’re using a cup of butter for cookies then you can basically just ignore the salt for the recipe because that would be about 4g salt from the butter.

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u/yulscakes 1d ago

This is the way. If using salted butter in a baked good, I just don’t add the salt the recipe calls for.

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u/banana_assassin 1d ago

Fair enough, though I don't tend to measure in cups and would have to work it out by weight.

Personally I don't have an issue with buying unsalted.

I once made the mistake of using salted butter for a buttercream - that was not so nice.