Is unsalted butter sweet?

[Bungle]

Are we becoming mumsnet?

I think we've probably got more tits on here

 

[gianthogweed]

Anything that gets tampered with in the act of trying to make it more healthy for you will always end in disappointment a bit like the crap Jamie Oliver cooks

 

[Bungle]

Are we becoming mumsnet?

Christopher I now have a new netmums account and am going to begin a reign of terror on there. The first thread I've seen is about women that are happily married but their bi-curious urges are overwhelming them.

Buckle up.

 

[sdk]

As a practical manner, unsalted butter is called sweet because it's... unsalted. But unsalted butter is indeed sweet. You most likely won't perceive it as sweet, however, because you live and eat in a culture that smuggles sugar into food production as a matter of course. Your palate has been desensitized thereby and what you perceive as sweet is, in nature, very, very sweet.

Go on a graduated "sugar detox" over the course of a number of weeks and then, as you reintroduce foods into your diet, thrill to the unmissable sweetness of broccoli and onions and collard greens and unsalted butter. Or don't. I don't care. Filthy animals.

 

[chrismpw]

As a practical manner, unsalted butter is called sweet because it's... unsalted. But unsalted butter is indeed sweet. You most likely won't perceive it as sweet, however, because you live and eat in a culture that smuggles sugar into food production as a matter of course. Your palate has been desensitized thereby and what you perceive as sweet is, in nature, very, very sweet.

Go on a graduated "sugar detox" over the course of a number of weeks and then, as you reintroduce foods into your diet, thrill to the unmissable sweetness of broccoli and onions and collard greens and unsalted butter. Or don't. I don't care. Filthy animals.

My eyes were opened to this 30 years ago on a holiday in Greece. I went into a local supermarket looking for a can of baked beans. "Oh we dont have that stuff here - too sweet. All your English food is too sweet." Quite an eye opener - and once you're shown the way to look you see it everywhere.

 

[LostLegend]

Are we becoming mumsnet?

Becoming?

That transition happened years ago...

 

[Groucho]

It can also double as an adequate lube when required.


Don't @ me.

Need to take it out of the fridge hours before I imagine.

 

[tommye]

Need to take it out of the fridge hours before I imagine.

Keep it always ready in a nice butter dish. Like this traditional one...

Or you could go with a more modern one, like this...