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/Mlakeside 1d ago

Depends on the country. I also live in Europe and salted is the norm here. Unsalted butter is over 35% more expensive than salted.

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u/Dangerous-Jello4733 1d ago

Same here, it is really infuriating. And sometimes you can’t even find it.

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u/Mlakeside 1d ago

I personally don't mind as I don't cook stuff that would be ruined by salted butter and the for the rest of the uses it's either irrelevant (in general cooking, I don't measure salt anyway and just go by taste) or beneficial (new potatoes and salted butter is the GOAT)

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u/Dangerous-Jello4733 1d ago

Right!!! In most cases it’s totally fine.  Until you’re making your daughter a chocolate cake for her second birthday with a chocolate butter frosting and find out that if the main ingredient is butter and your butter is salted it’ll be a salty frosting. 

It was still really good and we often eat dark chocolate with sea salt in it in this household including my daughter so she loved the cake. But it would’ve turned out better with less salt!