salted butter? unsalted butter?

[grasswire]

Which do you prefer to spread on bread or toast?

[Placebo]

1. Salted!

My father used to buy unsalted and I'd spread it on bread without thinking and then take a bite and be like, "WTF!" Blech.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Other...

European Cultured Butter.

[grasswire]

8. ah, but european cultured butter....

...comes in both salted and unsalted varieties. It's just that ecb is made from fermented cream as opposed to the "sweet" cream used in the UK and US.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. Okay, well I've only had it unsalted. So I guess I'll vote that.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. I prefer a spread

called Semprini.

[grasswire]

7. got a boil, have ye? (eom)

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Better'n having the pox

Or a chest rash. :scared:

[madeline_con]

4. It depends on what you're using it for. n/t

[grasswire]

5. bread or toast....

...table use.

[madeline_con]

6. salted :)

[wickerwoman]

11. I always buy unsalted.

The only thing I use it for is to make ghee.

I prefer salted for spreading though.

[tjwmason]

12. Unsalted.

My only concession to so-called healthy-food is cutting out unnecessary salt.

Now that I'm used to it, I can really taste the butter itself - I recently tasted some salted and it was ghastly, couldn't taste anything other than salt.

[Jamastiene]

13. Neither. Margarine. n/t

[laheina]

14. Right on.

:)

[grasswire]

23. I wonder if they make unsalted margarine (eom)

[Jamastiene]

32. I think Blue Bonnet does.

I'm not sure though. I'm one of those anti-health nuts, so I go for plenty of fat, salt, and anything else that tastes good. :P

[Xipe Totec]

15. Salt only, skip the butter

I'm on a low cholesterol diet, but not low sodium.

[Katina]

16. other

it depends on what you are using it for..a finished product or during cooking. You don't want to add too much salt or it could ruin your dish.

[grasswire]

20. toast or other table use

not in cooking

[miss_american_pie]

17. Salted for toast

unsalted for baking.

[El Fuego]

18. Without the salt, butter doesn't taste like butter.

IMO, unsalted butter is only for cooking, when you don't want to add more salt.

[JVS]

19. One of my friends described unsalted as "Tastes like whipped lard"

[Placebo]

31. Agreed!

I don't know what it tastes like, but it ain't butter.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. I learned to like unsalted when I went to Europe as a teenager

I've never looked back. :-)

[grasswire]

22. according to butter experts...

...a lot of European butter is "demi-sel" meaning "lightly salted" -- and the difference in taste you experience is because they use fermented cream instead of fresh cream to make the "cultured" butter taste. Could you remember if the butter you experienced was actually unsalted or demi-sel cultured butter?

[mainegreen]

24. Salted butter is vile. If you can't appreciate butter for the butter...

then don't eat it!

Damn dairy gourmands.

[bumblebee1]

25. When cooking,

if a recipe calls for butter, I use unsalted butter. I put melted unsalted butter on popcorn.

[HeardOnTheHill]

26. Unsalted???

Salted butter + biscuits = magically delicious.

I pity the fool that dares put unsalted butter on anything - whoa nelly!!!

[bumblebee1]

27. I use margarine on things like bread and biscuits.

Margarine is plenty salty enough.

[grasswire]

28. what about toast?

What do you put on toast? Or a baked potato?

[Blue_In_AK]

29. Unsalted for making ghee when I make Indian food...

...otherwise salted.

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. For toast, salted; for most everything else, unsalted.

In the past couple years, I've moved away from salted butter (except for those times when it's called for, or for toast or toasted bagels or for buttering bread at the table) and now use unsalted in the vast majority of my cooking.

[grasswire]

33. any more votes out there? (eom)

[AirmensMom]

34. Salted organic butter.

:9

[supernova]

35. Unsalted for me, thanks.

It goes better in cooking because you can control the salt content of the final dish that way.

And since I live alone and eat very little butter (mostly use OO when grease is called for), I go to the http://www.southernseason.com/">gourmet emporiumand get european butter.