What is the point of buying salted butter?

nacl wrote:

It's common knowledge that they use lower quality butter for the salted variety because they know that the salt masks the taste. If you actually want salt in whatever you're making, it can be added with almost no effort. What is the point of buying the crappy salted stuff instead of just buying plain butter and employing a salt shaker as needed?

Because unsalted tastes like a$$

What's the point of buying unsalted butter? I guess for baking. That is about all it is good for. But for cooking meat, veggies, buttering your toast, salted is the only way to go.

Also, your common knowledge there is way off. Just get quality butter. Don't buy the stuff that's 4 sticks for a dollar.

The existence of unsalted butter is hard to explain.

If you are going to use that, you may as well just use lard. It cheaper and tastes like crap, just like unsalted butter.

keepgoing wrote:

What's the point of buying unsalted butter? I guess for baking. That is about all it is good for. But for cooking meat, veggies, buttering your toast, salted is the only way to go.

Salted butter is better than good olive oil for the above purposes?

I don't think so wrote:

Salted butter is better than good olive oil for the above purposes?

Yes. I don't like my toast tasting like disgusting olives.

Why? Marketplace economics.

Salted butter has a longer shelf life, less spoilage thus more profit.

I disagree unsalted butter tastes better to me .

Salted butter comes from salty cows.

Salinated wrote:

Salted butter comes from salty cows.

Buy Kerry Gold brand butter, the worlds best. Its from Ireland where they have right stroppy cows.

nacl wrote:

It's common knowledge that they use lower quality butter for the salted variety because they know that the salt masks the taste.

Reputable source for this statement?

What's the point in combining any ingredients in a product when you can always buy the ingredients separately and put them together?

Star wrote:

What's the point in combining any ingredients in a product when you can always buy the ingredients separately and put them together?

To control the relative amounts of the ingredients. I can always add salt, to unsalted butter. I can't remove salt from salted butter. Quality issues aside, I doubt many of us really need to take in any more salt than necessary.

Why would you buy salted butter? The last thing we need is more salt in our diets.

I don't think so wrote:

keepgoing wrote:

What's the point of buying unsalted butter? I guess for baking. That is about all it is good for. But for cooking meat, veggies, buttering your toast, salted is the only way to go.

Salted butter is better than good olive oil for the above purposes?

Olive oil is definitely a must, but it does not replace salted butter for many things. Butter is better for steak, pork chops, broccoli, asparagus, green beans and things like that.

Oil or butter works well for cauliflower, carrots, potatoes, ground beef, chicken and things like that. But YMMV.