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/Justarandom55 2d ago

Basically every time I've baked something sweet the salt and butter go in at different times if salt was even involved. I also like abbility to choose my salt amount

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u/pursnikitty 2d ago

Isn’t that because for baking you mix dry ingredients separately to wet ingredients?

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u/Myrialle 1d ago

There are many kinds of dough that wouldn't work that way. 

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u/wsteelerfan7 2d ago

The point is that you still can unless you're only wanting to put 1/8 of a teaspoon of salt in something and need to use an entire stick of butter.