Salted or unsalted butter??? We buy the Kerry Gold brand of butter, and our trip to the

[a kennedy]

grocery store this week was buying the Unsalted Salted Kerry Gold. They were out of the salted kind so we bought the Unsalted kind as that was all that was available. We can’t really taste the difference…….just wondering if anyone else can tell the difference.

[2naSalit]

1. I can but only because...

I'm a salt eater, the slightest difference of salt is detectable for me.

If you want salt, it's easy to add yourself when putting it to use.

[whistler162]

27. Ummm.... okay

[2naSalit]

29. ?

[whistler162]

30. Not a trekie I guess

[2naSalit]

34. That is probably...

From some of the data files I deleted a few decades ago to make room for all the stuff I have to remember for the present.

[CloudWatcher]

32. Salt Monster from "The Man Trap"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708469/

First show that aired in the original series.

https://www.startrek.com/article/catching-up-with-the-salt-vampire-sandra-gimpel

[2naSalit]

33. would have taken...

Ages for me to reach that far back! Do you have any idea how much info is piled on top of that ancient trivia?

Good gawd.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. I wish I could buy Kerry Gold

but DAYUM, the price.

[a kennedy]

19. I know........but the ☘️ in me heads right to the Kerry Gold section.

[BlackSkimmer]

36. My favorite too.

Salted or unsalted makes no never mind to me!

[Blues Heron]

3. I switched to unsalted to cut down on unecessary sodium

Been happy so far, except I bought some Trader Joes unsalted and it mouldered before I finished it all - never had butter get moldy before. bleghh.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

14. That's my only complaint about TJ's

Can't by any bread product in any sort of bulk, because it goes moldy in about 3 days... Which sucks because I love their scones, crumpets and naan.

[Deep State Witch]

5. Bake with Unsalted

Eat the salted. At least that's what I was taught. Since I've gone keto, I use both interchangeably.

[Bristlecone]

28. I'm in this camp.

[wryter2000]

6. Too tell you the truth

I can't taste the difference, either.

[cate94]

7. I buy salted Kerry Gold

But their butter has less salt than most American brands.

[RockRaven]

8. It varies by brand, but salted butter only has about 1/3 of a teaspoon per stick added,

which was a lot less than I expected when I first looked into how to substitute one for the other in recipes.

[FSogol]

9. Salted is just a byproduct of the days before refrigeration.

Refrigeration preserved foods without the use of salt, but people missed the extra salt in their food so it was added to many products. Use unsalted, especially for baking and add salt how you like it to other foods. My 2 cents.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. I can definitely tell the difference and I like both kinds but

hubby prefers salted so we usually get that unless I need unsalted for baking. We just buy the store brand of either.

[Jirel]

11. I absolutely can.

If I have the option, I buy unsalted, as it’s better on fresh homemade bread, and it’s better for baking because the salt in the butter has to be figured into the overall salt in the recipe. I love unsalted butter for certain things.

[demtenjeep]

12. salted

my husband is a salt a holic

[BlueGreenLady]

13. If you have to choose only one

Get it unsalted. You can always salt your toast, but you can't remove too much salt from your cake batter. My butter never lasts long enough to get moldy. It's too yummy.

[MissB]

15. I buy both

Unsalted (non-Kerrygold) for general cooking etc. Salted Kerrygold for toast.

I don't go through a lot of Kerrygold.

[druidity33]

20. Same thing here. nt.

[FBaggins]

16. There is a difference in shelf life

I can definitely tell the difference (not in dishes, but as a spread), but you can always add salt.

In theory, salted butter lasts longer (freshest for about five months rather than three), but few people buy so much that either will go bad… and you can always freeze it.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

17. I've always been able to tell the difference

I remember going to Mexico when I was a kid and they only had unsalted butter at every restaurant we went to. I couldn't stand it.
That's probably the main reason I don't like it for eating - I remember it from that vacation 40 years ago.
I use it to cook all the time and always have some in the fridge.
Which led to my wife opening the wrong kind the other day and I immediately told her, "You used the wrong butter!"
That earned me some strange looks.

[samnsara]

18. omg you cant taste the difference? I threw out all out unsalted butter after hubby

..kept putting it on the table.

[intrepidity]

21. As several have already mentioned: "shelf life"

If you like to leave butter out at room temp for any period of time, salted will stay fresher longer.

I prefer salted on toast, but I will eat any butter anytime.

And yet, *every time* I am at the butter section, I stand there wondering which to get. I still do not have a quick default.

[multigraincracker]

22. On the advice of my cardiologist, I've stopped using all butter and

only use olive oil for everything I used butter for. Working well, but I'm of the Eat to Live and not Live to Eat group.

[niyad]

23. I can definitely tell the difference. But then, I have a very strong sensitivity to sodium.

[Kali]

24. salted

unsalted is gross. and there isn't enough salt in butter to make any difference in most baking so I don't pay attention to those extra steps of math either. now, there is a difference in amounts by brand. I think challenge butter is much saltier than safeway's store brand, but I only buy what is on sale either way.

[sinkingfeeling]

25. I only use unsalted butter.

[Elessar Zappa]

26. I like it salted for use on previously cooked items.

I use unsalted in recipes, especially baking.

[IcyPeas]

31. unsalted butter tastes sour to me... kinda like it's "off"

[Wolf Frankula]

35. Salted butter

Salted butter. Don't eat margarine.

Wolf