Towako - Vol. 2 Ch. 15 - The Anthropovore's Chocolate Cake

[MangaDex]

 

[HauntedPizza]

Well, that was bitter sweet.

 

[breizh]

Really nice but the unsalted butter in the recipe triggered me. Unsalted butter is an heresy that should be eradicated.

 

[FIippy]

Nice Oneshot. It really tugged my heart string

 

[Hollow7F]

ouch

 

[Kuuga]

This oneshot was a roller-coaster ride of emotions

 

[Claresilver47]

@breizh Unsalted butter is always preferred when baking because you can better control the amount of salt. Salted butter has an unknown amount of salt in it and this affects the quality of the good because there is a factor that you can't control. When I first started baking I used salted butter and the cookies always came out a bit salty. The switch to unsalted improved the taste dramatically.

 

[breizh]

@Claresliver47 Where I live we do everything with salted butter, cookies and all, I don't see the problem

 

[Claresilver47]

@breizh I live in the US. Costco sells literal bricks of unsalted butter, in packs of four even. I like to freeze them until I need them, typically only keep half of a brick at hand in the fridge. And yes, they are in the fridge, that half brick is still the size of three sticks of butter, I'm not going to finish it any time soon. I don't use butter everyday in my life so a butter bell isn't practical, but I do bake enough that those bricks of butter are nice to have at hand. Again, it's all about control since baking certain things does require specific ratios of ingredients. Salt is added to help bring out the sweetness of, so using unsalted lets you control the amount of salt you use. Salt also has a noticeable effect on eggs when prepped in certain ways, so you have to use unsalted butter in these cases. It's really just a flavor thing, i mean sure I don't mind if my chocolate chip cookies are a bit salty but I do mind when my snicker doodles are.

 

[Pokari]

Some of us don't mind salted butter in sweets simply because we don't mind if our sweets are a little salty anyway. Usually it's not enough salt to seriously affect the chemistry of baked goods either (at the amateur level, anyway).

...I forget what I was going to say before getting distracted by this baking discussion.

 

[syahriz]

why tf yall arguing on butter