Butter is amazing, versatile and tasty. You can put it on Bread, melt it for popcorn, use it in recipes. It can be frozen kept in the fridge or turned into a liquid. It lasts a long time and is reasonably priced, no question one of the best dairy products out there.

The debate starts when you have to decide between salted versus unsalted.

I personally think they both have their moments but it’s better to buy unsalted and then add salt as needed. Example, I don’t want my fresh bakery bread to taste like salt. When I have artichokes or popcorn, I want that salty taste. I just sprinkle some Himalayan pink salt into the liquid butter and done deal. The majority of recipes want to use unsalted butter because you are supposed to add salt.

Unsalted butter is good for all situations and you can easily add salt when you want. Salted butter is bad for quite a few situations and you can’t remove the salt.

The problem is that most people don’t actually think about it, they just go with what they’re used to. Whenever I’ve talked to people about butter, they quite often say they buy salted and don’t even know why. If you don’t know why you’re doing something, that alone should make you think a bit. Especially in the modern era where we have too much salt in our diet and adding extra unnecessarily is a bit of a failure.