Comments on: Salted or Unsalted Butter

By: Janet m vollmar

Janet m vollmar — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 19:48:26 +0000

Thanks for all your great information.Happy Baking?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 03:13:02 +0000

In reply to Alisa. Thanks Alisa! I am happy you are here! :)

By: Alisa

Alisa — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:33:56 +0000

This is great! Thank you. I love your website.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:47:09 +0000

In reply to Jane. I am going to Knoxville tomorrow and TJ's is on my list of stores to visit. I am going to look at some butter and eggs! LOL Thanks for the tip!

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 02:58:24 +0000

In reply to Lisa.

You’re going to love TJ’s, Lisa! The things they do well are better than anyone else does them, and you really can’t beat their prices.

Their free-range organic eggs are also very good for baking. It’s my current favorite egg.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 04:09:07 +0000

In reply to Jane.

Hi Jane!

Thanks for sharing the information about the moisture content. Isn’t is amazing how tiny little things like moisture or salt in butter will affect the outcome of our cookies? Baking is a science and I wish I would have paid more attention in school! LOL

I We finally have a Trader Joe’s in our area. I will have to try their butter. Thanks for the tip!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 04:05:59 +0000

In reply to Beth. I am glad you keep your butter wrapped! We can't have naked butter laying around on the counter! LOL I uses Land O Lakes butter and I like it a lot. I have never heard of Kerry Gold before. I will have to try to find it and try it in my cookies. ;)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 04:00:18 +0000

In reply to LindaMaeNot.

Hi LindaMaeNot,

You just brought back great memories for me. I used to churn butter with my grandma! You may have inspired me (and maybe others) to try it.

Thanks for sharing!

By: LindaMaeNot

LindaMaeNot — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:02:54 +0000

This was a very good article. I save myself headaches by making my own butter. It doesn’t take long and I can control how much (if any) salt hoes into it.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:56:21 +0000

There’s also a difference in moisture content between salted and unsalted butter, and from one brand of butter to the next. Salted butter has a higher moisture content than unsalted. At a guess, that’s likely to be the problem the baker above ran into with her spreading cookies.

I’m lazy, so I have a brand of butter I like and I stick with it. I have worked out all of the complications and I don’t have to start over. The only exception I make is that I love grass fed unsalted butter slathered on homemade bread, but its price is too dear for an all-around baking butter. My favorite all-around butter is Trader Joe’s organic unsalted, and it sells so fast there’s no worry about shelf date.