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I looked at my butter today, the ingredients are:

  • butter oil
  • milk powder

What the hell is butter oil? I tried googling it, but I get VERY contradictory results, nothing from a reputable source I could find.

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[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would like to say that while this is clearly made in jest, unsalted butter is a requirement for some really great recipes, and also some people are on say a low sodium diet. I put it as optional, because I'm a mature person and don't yuck other people's yum.

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I use unsalted butter almost exclusively so I can more easily control the salt content of my dishes

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why do people even combine butter and salt? Why not keep them separate, I think every kitchen I've ever seen has salt in it

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 3 weeks ago

Traditionally, salted butter was way saltier than our modern salted butter and it was a way to make it last longer before we had refrigeration and pasteurisation

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago

When using butter as a spread it's nice to have some salt incorporated. A salt shaker is very easy to overdo on something light like toast or pancakes.