If you’re a home baker, you can never have enough butter stashed away in your fridge and freezer. Because who hasn’thit up their grocery store only to find that the entire stock of unsalted butter was ...

Whether it’s a recipe for chocolate chip banana bread coffee cake or fusilli with spring vegetables, our readers are always asking if they can swap in salted butter for unsalted, or vice versa. (There ...

As a highly opinionated group, our team doesn’t always agree on some key culinary questions. We’ve had many arguments about whether a hot dog is a sandwich, if ketchup belongs on a bacon, egg, and ...

Salt, as we know, is a preservative, meaning it extends the shelf life of butter. According to Food52, salted butter keeps for five months, while unsalted only lasts for three. For me, this is good ...

QUESTION: If a baking recipe calls for butter, should I assume salted or unsalted? If I guess wrong, what is the impact to the recipe? If salted butter is required, and I only have unsalted, can I add ...

Butter is a staple in most kitchens, but the difference between salted and unsalted butter is often misunderstood ...

It’s easy to think of butter as just butter. But, in baking, temperature completely changes how it behaves in your dough or ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We have all been there, setting out to tackle an exciting new baking recipe, flour, sugar, and all the rest neatly arrayed on the countertop, ...

One of the absolute simplest pleasures in the world of food is a really well made (and seasoned) bread and butter. If I’m out to eat and the menu has an $8 specialty bread-and-butter service, I’m ...