Articles from December 2024
2024-12-30: Salted butter
I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: buying salted butter makes no sense. At least not unless your butter pricing is vastly different from ours.
I can buy 250 g of salted or unsalted butter for the same price. 250 g is the quantitiy of our standard butter packages, but you can substitute butter sticks and adjust. Butter is super-expensive right now, so a 250-g package may run you €2.99.
Salt, however, is so cheap that it is practically free. I can have 500 g of table salt with added iodine delivered to me (obviously as part of a larger purchase, because of mininum order values, delivery fees and stuff) for €.25. In-store prices will be similar but I won’t go out to the nearest supermarket and check just now.
I totally get why you want salt on your butter. One of the simplest but greatest pleasures in life (culinary-wise; let’s not get into that other realm) is a freshly toasted slice of toast with lots of butter melted into it and a bit of salt added on top. So good! Mmmmmmmmhhhhhh. I really like that a lot.
But why buy salted butter? Salted butter is about 248 g of butter and 2 g of salt. But it’s the same price as 250 g of unsalted butter. So you are paying €11.96 per kilo for salt which should be €.50 per kilo. Does not compute. Makes no sense.
If you want salt on your butter (and I totally get why you would), add the salt yourself.
