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Default Salted vs. unsalted butter ( YUM! I made another batch ofmushrooms and spinach and YUM!!)

On 9/30/2018 2:46 PM, wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 04:40:56 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 7:16:46 PM UTC-4, Sheldon wrote:
>>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 Doris Night wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>> On Friday, September 28 Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri 28 Sep 2018 Doris Night wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've only ever bought it by accident. I really wish they wouldn't
>>>>>>>> put salted and unsalted side-by-side in the dairy fridge.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Doris wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Where would you suggest they put it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> The salted and unsalted butters here are in completely different colored
>>>>>> boxes and easily distinguished from each other.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Same thing here. I never buy unsalted butter. The salted butter (1/4
>>>>> lb. sticks, four to a box) comes in a brown and white box and the
>>>>> unsalted is a blue and white box. I suppose if someone isn't used to
>>>>> shopping or is unfamiliar with the store and wasn't paying attention
>>>>> they could grab what they don't want by mistake.
>>>>
>>>> In Canada (Ontario), the packaging is exactly the same for salted and
>>>> unsalted. The only difference is the word "unsalted" or "salted". And
>>>> it comes in a foil brick, not a box of four sticks.
>>>>
>>>> Doris
>>>
>>> Here salted is in a blue box, unsalted is in a yellow box... however
>>> both are in a large font, as large as the one that says BUTTER.
>>> Sometimes I don't remember which color is which so still I read which
>>> one and I only buy UNsalted. I can always add salt but I can't remove
>>> salt. And for buttered bread I much prefer to add a wee bit of kosher
>>> salt, the larger crystals offer an explosion of saltiness without
>>> ingesting a large quantity of salt... salted butter, depending on
>>> brand, contains about one tablespoon of salt per pound,

>>
>> You surely are askeered of salt. I eat more than 1/4 teaspoon in my oatmeal
>> (plus a little salted butter) every morning.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton

>
> I like salty foods, why waste my salt intake on butter... I'd much
> rather a salami sandwich for lunch than salty buttered toast for
> breakfast.
>

Yet you add a bit of kosher salt to buttered bread. Wait, according to
you *all* salt is kosher. Don't you mean *coarsely* ground salt?

Jill