Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Salted vs unsalted butter" video.

  1. I'm from germany and had never heard of salted butter until I visited denmark, where people have never heard of unsalted butter.
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  2. bad take, there are many foods that salt has to permeate. my mom makes baked potatoes with practically no salt, and it's horrible. adding the salt just on the surface afterwards is SO MUCH WORSE!
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  3. as a german, I never knew salted butter existed until I visited denmark, where apparently nobody had heard of unsalted butter. salted butter is vastly inferior except for very limited applications such as eating plain bread with butter, or with butter and herbs or whatever, where you want it to be salty but aren't adding anything else salty to it (such as cheese or meat products). if you want to make something sweet with butter, or you want to make something salty with another already salty ingredient, unsalted butter is superior.
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  4. here in northern germany, salted butter is practically unheard of. go across the border to denmark, and it's inverted.
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  5. recipes should obviously give a suggestion for the amount of salt to use, it's just a badly written recipe if it doesn't. old recipes generally seem much less specific, like they're passive-aggressively demanding that you already know what the thing you're making is supposed to be like and are just using the recipe as a memory aid. if you put "add salt to taste" into a recipe, someone who doesn't have previous knowledge of the food won't even know if it's supposed to be an actually salty dish, or just have a little bit of salt like almost everything. they could end up making a salty vanilla pudding or a whole chicken with a pinch of salt.
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  6. if you eat bread with just butter, salted butter is superior. in almost any other case, unsalted butter is superior.
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