Do You Use Salted Or Unsalted Butter For Baking
Camila Farah
Salted butter is great for spreading on toast tossing with steamed potatoes or melting and pouring over a bowl of popcorn.
The salt actually enhances the flavor. Unless your recipe calls for a great deal of butter salted or unsalted won t make or break the recipe. Aside from the flavor using salted butter in a baking recipe that calls for unsalted can lead the end product to not turn out as it should. Another reason to choose unsalted butter in baking is that salt is a preservative which means salted butter can stay on grocery store shelves for a longer time.
If you re putting butter on the dinner table for people to use for spreading on bread for example you want to use salted butter. Most tasters preferred the recipe as written using unsalted butter. If you ve only got unsalted butter on hand you can add a sprinkle of salt onto your bread and it will do the job of the salt you re missing in the butter itself. At the end of the day it comes down to your personal preference so feel free to use whichever type you prefer and if you are on a low sodium diet then absolutely use unsalted butter.
If you re baking a recipe that calls for unsalted butter or doesn t specify a butter and you only. I however have always used salted butter in my baking while still adding whatever amount of salt is called for in a recipe. For example in a high fat yeast dough such as brioche using salted butter may not only lead to an overly salty flavor but something that doesn t look or feel as brioche should. As it turns out substituting one for the other is not such a simple swap.
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