If a recipe calls for salted butter and you only have unsalted, it’s an easy fix: Simply add a small amount of salt to your ingredients (approximately ¼ teaspoon salt per ½ cup of butter).

Unsalted butter is made with just heavy cream, while salted butter includes salt. However, the amount of salt in salted butter isn’t standardized, so it varies across brands and can even vary ...

After tasting 27 different brands of unsalted butter, including both American-style an European-style butter, we narrowed down the 7 butters you need to purchase right now from your local supermarket.

If a recipe calls for salted butter and you only have unsalted, it’s an easy fix: Simply add a small amount of salt to your ingredients (approximately ¼ teaspoon salt per ½ cup of butter).