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 ...

As a highly opinionated group, our team doesn’t always agree on some key culinary questions. We’ve had many arguments about whether a hot dog is a sandwich, if ketchup belongs on a bacon, egg, and ...

If you've ever found yourself double-fisting grocery store butter by the dairy case — one ultra-creamy unsalted, one cultured extra sea salt — and wondering exactly when you're supposed to use salted ...

Butter is one of the most common baking ingredients and is also considered to be a staple in everyday cooking. From baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies to spreading on toast with jam, having ...

If you want to make chocolate chip cookies but only have salted butter in your refrigerator, here's what you need to know ...

Butter is back. After decades as a dietary pariah, it’s a star ingredient in everything from brown butter pasta to gooey butter cake, and you may have noticed the growing variety at the supermarket.

You need to know your butter and adjust salt in recipes a bit - my preferred all-purpose butter brand is Trader Joe's Organic Salted. In fact, I use unsalted butter only in baking laminated pastry ...

“The Great British Baking Show” (or “Bake-Off,” depending on where you're watching) is an immensely popular series with a dedicated following. For many, the show offers a comforting background for a ...