Have you ever tried to add salt to unsalted butter?

[Paper Roses]

A neighbor just moved and gave me some refrigerated foods that she did not want to take with her.
I now have a 1 pound block of unsalted butter.
I Googled to see if there was some way to add salt and the answers left me a little puzzled.

Have you ever done this?
It is cold here and I really don't know how to soften the block of butter that will not melt it. If the weather was warm, no problem. My heat is not on yet and it is 64 degrees in the kitchen, not enough to soften the butter.

The advice was to add 1 teaspoon salt to a pound of softened butter.
That seems a lot to me. If this is right, should I use a mortar and Pestle and pulverize the salt?

I know I would have to mix it well and then mold and quarter the butter to freeze it.
This may seem silly but I don't want to waste it and butter is almost $5.00 a pound here so it would be worth the time.
Any ideas?
Thanks

[Beakybird]

1. I've removed salt from salted butter with tweezers. It takes a lot of time.

[soothsayer]

3. Ha

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. I would just use the butter as usual and add salt to the dish n/t

[Wawannabe]

7. 2nd this!

There is not that much difference!

[samnsara]

4. hubby likes unsalted butter but i put my foot down after thats all i had for my toast..

..unsalted butter is for cooking not eating. I can get butter at the local Discount Grocery for $2.99 a pound..and im not buying icky unsalted butter

[sagesnow]

5. When I've accidentally bought unsalted butter I just

butter my toast and then sprinkle a little salt on the buttered toast. Most recipes call for unsalted butter, but add a tsp of salt to the recipe if needed.

[pansypoo53219]

11. yes. only by accident! it might be unholy in WI. or that new cheesy butter. ICK POO ACK ACK!

[Major Nikon]

6. If you are going to freeze it anyway, why go to the trouble of salting it?

[spinbaby]

8. I would freeze it for future baking

Baking usually calls for unsalted butter. Unsalted butter has a higher moisture content, or maybe a lower moisture content—I don’t exactly remember. In any case, salting unsalted butter isn’t going to give you exactly the same thing as buying salted butter.

Meanwhile, here’s an inspirational butter video:

[dem in texas]

9. I always buy unsalted butter

Unsalted butter is a must if you do a lot of baking and you can always add the salt to the dish you are making or food that you are eating. We consume way too much salt in our diets anyway.

[lettucebe]

10. I use unsalted all the time for baking -- just sprinkle some salt on your food

Not much -- it's not a huge amount of salt in butter. You do not need to bother doing anything special to "get the salt in there."

[Retrograde]

12. In France, I've had butter with flakes of salt in it

I usually use unsalted butter, but sometimes I will put a pinch of kosher salt on buttered toast. Otherwise, if I were using it for cooking I'd melt it and then add salt.

[Warpy]

13. Why would you?

Salt was added to butter originally as a preservative. Unsalted butter can now be kept in the freezer to be used in cooking and baking things where you don't necessarily want added salt.

Just use it like you use salted butter, otherwise. If you miss the salt, add some to whatever you're eating. You don't need to soften the butter, add salt to it and knead it in. It's just not necessary.