SCUBApix wrote:

> "Bob (this one)" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>A whole pound of butter will have between 1 1/4 and 1 1/3 teaspoons of
>>salt in it. It's a small matter to compensate for it no matter the
>>scale used.
>>
>
> Bob,
> Based on a google search I found this web site
> (http://www.ochef.com/553.htm). They say that the salt content of butter
> ranges from 3/8 teaspoon to 3/4 teaspoon per STICK of butter. That's 1 1/2
> to 3 teaspoons per pound. That's quite a range to compensate for and the
> minimum value is greater than your max value.

Yeah. That's the same erroneous, non-scientific one that Sheldon
plagiarized. The USDA disagrees with that.

Here's what I posted a few days ago, complete with rationales and
calculations.

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Maybe look here for more reliable information:
<http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/cgi-bin/list_nut_edit.pl>

If you look at the sodium content of the butter in your fridge, you
can calculate that there's about a teaspoon and a quarter in the whole
pound of butter.

The usual ratio shown in the nutrition panel is 90 milligrams of
sodium in 14 grams (1 tablespoon) of butter. Sodium comprises about
40% of the weight of salt. That means roughly 225 milligrams or .225
grams of salt in a tablespoon of butter. Those numbers are rounded,
but they're close enough. Extending that ratio to the whole pound
brings you to 32 tablespoons X .225 grams = 7.2 grams salt per pound
of butter. Various reliable sources give rounded numbers that range
from 7 grams salt per pound up to about 9 grams per pound. When you
think that 1 ounce = 28 grams, these are small numbers and a variation
like this is essentially meaningless unless it's a serious health
issue for some critical condition.

Here's what I posted earlier today:

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A cup of salt weighs about 12 ounces. A teaspoon of salt (1/48 of a
cup) weighs about 1/4 ounce or 7 grams. A pound of butter is 2 cups
volume or 454 grams.

A whole pound of butter will have about 1 1/4 teaspoons salt or about
..3 ounces by weight or about 8.8 grams. One 1/4-pound (1/2 cup) stick
of butter would have about .3 of a teaspoon salt or 2.1 grams and a
tablespoon would have about .26 grams. About 1/4 of one gram of salt
per tablespoon of butter; about 0.04 teaspoons, or less than 1/100 of
an ounce of salt.

Now that you know that, you can use salted butter and compensate as
you will for its salt content. My attitude is not to even count it. In
very specific taste tests we did with recipes made with salted and
unsalted butter, the several people who participated found no
difference in taste or any other characteristic of finished products.
Not even in candies or lemon curd and the like where you'd expect it
to be of consequence.

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> I would use unsalted butter when that is called for instead of guessing how
> much salt is in my particular brand of salted butter. Especially if you buy
> different brands from one shopping trip to another.

I'd suggest using more reliable sites than that chef site for science.

Pastorio