TL;DR 1 stick of salted butter (8 tbsp) has about 1/3 tsp of salt.
Maybe the same thing happens to you: you want to bake something. The recipe calls for unsalted butter. You have all the other ingredients. You have salted butter. You just don’t have unsalted butter. You look at the recipe. It calls for salt. Are you really going to go to the store and get unsalted butter? Should you just use salted butter? Maybe it will end up too salty! Why do they do that anyway!? Since we don’t eat that much butter at this point, it’s kind of a pain to keep two kinds on hand just in case.
This happened to me recently, and I finally decided it’s time for me to figure out how much salt there is in salted butter.
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