While there are many essential rules to baking, one thing that often trips up new bakers is the difference between salted and unsalted butter. It might not seem like a big deal, but using either ...

Fine-tuning your favorite mac and cheese recipe could come down to the type of butter you use: salted or unsalted. Here's which one to choose and why.

Salt may seem like a minor detail, but it's important to your cooking to know the difference between two major types of butter — unsalted and salted — and when it's best to use each. Most of us, at ...

Can you please explain why some recipes call for unsalted butter, and whether it’s okay to use standard salted butter instead. Does it really make that much of a difference? Thanks, Sandy O That ...

It seems every baking recipe calls for unsalted butter, yet sometimes salt is added to the recipe. Unsalted butter is never on special and I wondered if it makes such a big difference in baking?

You can freeze butter if it is well wrapped. Salted butter will freeze for 12 months and unsalted butter should keep in the freezer for 6 months. Butter can be grated from frozen into flour to ...

There's only one ingredient that sets salted butter apart from unsalted. You guessed it: salt. It's a tiny difference, but enough of a change to raise alarm bells in the brains of chefs of all levels.