In culinary school, and then as a professional recipe developer, cookbook author, and food director at REAL SIMPLE, it has been ingrained in me to use unsalted butter in baking, as opposed to salted.

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Question: I'm confused. Recipes call for butter with no salt and then add salt. Why not skip a step and use salted butter? Answer: There are two reasons that doesn't work well. First, salt is used as ...