Kerrygold - Salted vs Unsalted

(Running from stupidity) #21

@dlc96_darren Yeah, well, check this :slight_smile:

(Dana) #22

Same. Now I am in the South where Publix reigns supreme.

I have always bought salted butter, even before keto. It keeps longer when unrefrigerated, and every baking recipe I had ever used which called for unsalted butter still added 1/4 tsp or so of salt. And it does taste better than unsalted on its own :slight_smile:

(Doug) #23

Exact same here, Brian. West Virginia panhandle - where my employer is.

#24

Stand back everyone. This may be the end. :flushed:

#25

Well, we’ve already lowered our standards, just letting you join. I guess we’ll let this pass too. #wewillacceptanybody :wink:

(Allie) #26

I always used unsalted at first because I hated the taste of salt, but as I’ve moved on and after making the decision to add more sodium to my diet, my tastes have changed and now it’s salted in everything. The salted is so much easier to find here in the UK, I’ve onyl found one local store that stocks it and it’s not one I like to go to.

(Duncan Kerridge) #27

I didn’t even realise you could get unsalted, I’ve never seen it in the uk

(Allie) #28

It’s rare. I’ve only found it in the massive Sainsbury in Central Milton Keynes, and once in Bletchley Sainsbury but I think they’d ordered by mistake as it was out in place of the salted stuff. It shows on the Waitrose site too but couldn’t find it in store when I looked.

#29

I guess it depends on what you’ve been brought up with.

I’ve never understood how people can eat salted butter - you’re just covering up the beautiful, fresh, sweet, subtle taste of the actual product!

But then again, having European parents, I’ve been eating unsalted since birth so that’s how my palate has developed (and the cheap, salted, no doubt half-rancid stuff that my Australian school friends had to eat wasn’t going to change my opinion :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:).

(Running from stupidity) #30

Have we had bad butter down here? I’ve not come across it, so just curious.

#31

There is of course some excellent butter here in Australia, now more than ever with the increasing number of smaller/specialty/organic producers who use the best quality milk.

But cheap supermarket butter has long been of varying quality. There are certain brands I wouldn’t touch again with a bargepole, because when I’ve tried them they’ve always had that distinctive less-than-fresh smell, and they just don’t taste like real, good-quality butter should (Western Star and Ballantyne, I’m looking at you!). But I guess if that’s all that some people have ever had, then that’s what they believe butter should taste like.

(Okay, I admit, I was brought up to be super fussy about butter, lol. My mum always used to say that manufacturers salted their butter to cover up the first signs of rancidity, and I’m inclined to believe her.)

#32

Good point. That wouldn’t surprise me a bit. But Kerrygold does sell salted, so I can’t accuse them of this, but it’s funny.

The other day I was putting some butter in the pan, and for whatever reason got a little more on my figures then usual. I started to wipe my hands and thought, “just eat it, it’s only butter”. So I licked my fingers, and was so delighted how sweet it tasted. I’m surprised I don’t taste butter, on it’s own, more often (usually just cooked in with my food).

My most vivid memory of eating butter was when I used to spread it on graham crackers. Obviously I don’t do this anymore. That was when I was a kid, and actually it was probably margarine, because that’s what Mom would buy.

It’s a wonder I’m still alive! :grin:

Not only that, but we would REUSE our margarine bowls (big ones) for eating cereal!

We think we’re being safe, buying insurance, locking our doors at night; little did we know…

Wow, that went down a rabbit trail. Stream of consciousness, I guess. :man_shrugging:

(Brian) #33

Not anything I’d get that excited about, certainly not enough to argue seriously with anyone. That said, maybe I’ll give a block of unsalted a try and just see what I think of it. It’s been quite a while since I tried and I know my tastes have changed a little over the years.

:slight_smile:

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #34

I used to get unsalted based on the idea that I can control the salt. Now I buy salted and use a bit less salt when cooking. It’s fine.

(Allie) #35

This is what, for several decades, made me think I didn’t like butter - the way mother would thickly coat things in horrible margarine :nauseated_face:

(TJ Borden) #36

Oh com’on… it will be fun.

You’re folding, just like that? :flushed:

Actually, I’m thinking the same thing. I might give the salted another try. Especially since my Costco has a great buy on the salted but they don’t carry the unsalted.

Look at that… butter has brought us together. Better than a UN peace summit.

(Mandy) #37

I have a very scientific approach to deciding between salted and unsalted kerrygold.

Costco only sells their 4 pack in salted. Salted it is!

(Brian) #38

LOL!! Nah. Just trying to keep an open mind.

I went for many years thinking I didn’t like coffee. But in a moment of greed (when coffee was included with breakfast and juice was an extra $2), I decided maybe I’d give it a try. Discovered I liked it with lots of cream and a little sweetener.

Who knows, maybe unsalted butter would be similar. ?? Won’t know till I try.

:slight_smile:

(Running from stupidity) #39

You know what that sounds like, south of the equator? An excuse for folding is what it sounds like. #bloodyUN

(Helena) #40

It’s definitely in the Oakgrove Waitrose… or was when I last popped in.