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Originally Posted by AprilB Salt is used to preserve butter and other stuff. Hence salted pork, fish, etc.
Butter isn't used to preserve anything that I know of. The fat in it would go rancid.
Unsalted butter is the butter of choice because it doesn't have as long a shelf life (ie: fresher) because it doesn't contain salt and you can add salt to taste.
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Of course some people might like the heavy pre-salted taste... >>>April i disagree with you, well partly at least. Yes butter is used as a preservative but for me it is the only butter for bread. It is the only butter I have ever seen in the better restaurants. >>> |
If you are buying butter off the shelf or even stock butter from a supplier and you think it has no preservatives you better look again. As far as some people, all of the chefs I have ever worked with have used salted butter for bread service, even most of the high end restaurants I have ever eaten in have served it salted as well.