Identify The 6 Types Of Butter Used To Equip The Flavor Of Cooking

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JAKARTA - Butter or who is familiarly called butter is one of the ingredients that is always used in making food, from appetizers, playing course, to desserts. Although it is often used in various food ingredients, unfortunately there are still many of us who don't know if there are many types of butter.

These types of butter are apparently distinguished based on the manufacturing process to the milk used. Want to know what? Check out the reviews as quoted from Southern Living, Monday, December 12, below.

Salted butter has a function of strengthening food taste. The salt contained in it is useful for preserving salted butter so that it has an expiration date longer than unsalted butter. This type of butter is commonly used to mix bread, roast steak, or menumis food.

Unsalted butter is often used to make cakes. Although some recipes recommend the use of salted butter, most cakes use the type of unsalted butter. Why? The reason is, each salted butter brand contains a different amount of salt. So, it is safer to use salted butter so that the quality of taste is maintained. If you want to strengthen the salty taste in cooking, you can add salt.

Mixed butter is a type of butter that has been shaken with additional milk, cream, or water to give a soft texture so that it can be sold to certain foods. Mixed butter is often used as an opicite, cake, or bread filling.

European butter is a type of butter that is processed for a long time, producing 82 percent milk fat. This type of butter also usually has a finer texture and a faded color. Just like salted butter, european butter can also be used for various types of cuisine.

Butter usually contains 80 percent fat. So, extra creamy butter is butter with more fat so that the taste of cooking is more delicious and the texture is also more subtle. Use extra creamy butter to roast cakes, bread, or as bread peels.

Organic butter is made of cream or cow's milk that is kept according to special guidelines set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Called organic because milk should not come from cows exposed to injections of hormones, pesticides, or antibiotics in the food they eat. And their food is at least 60 percent from organic grass. Because it is healthier, the price of organic butter is more expensive than other butter.