The Store-Bought Butter Brand That's Highly Overrated, Overpriced, And Way Too Salty
Chowhound • • business
Key Points:
- Cabot Creamery's salted butter ranked second-to-last in a taste test of grocery store butters, with its overly salty flavor overpowering the natural sweetness of butter.
- Despite being relatively expensive, Cabot butter's intense saltiness made it less enjoyable when simply spread on warm bread, likened to tasting saline solution.
- To salvage overly salty Cabot butter, consumers can blend it with unsalted butter and herbs to create compound butters or adjust baking recipes by reducing added salt accordingly.
- The best overall salted butter in the test was Kerrygold, with Plugra also recommended as a high-quality alternative that enhances dishes without excessive saltiness.
