super salty baked goods - what could be the reason?

[Anonymous]

I've made 2 baked goods in the past week - snickerdoodles and banana bread - and both have been extraordinarily salty. I bake pretty often, and I've never had this happen to me before. I weigh ingredients instead of measure them, and I've been baking for years, so I feel pretty confident in the kitchen. With the cookies, I subbed self-rising flour for the all-purpose, which of course has salt in it, so I just thought that that was where the excess salty came from and thought the problem solved. But yesterday, the bread came out salty, and that has never happened before. I used white whole wheat yesterday which I always do for the banana bread, followed the instructions as written and - super salty. The amount of salt I put in was correct. What could it be? Could baking power or baking soda 'go bad' and cause things to be extra salty? A google search tells me that's not really possible, and plus, the amounts in the recipe - 1 tsp of each - wouldn't be that significant to make the whole recipe be so salty. Other ideas? MAybe the salt taste is actually a bitter taste? And if that's the case, what could cause that?

[Anonymous]

Are you behind sea salt? It’s saltier than table salt.

[Anonymous]

Do you keep your white sugar in a jar? Could you or someone else have accidentally topped it up with table salt instead of sugar?

[Anonymous]

Salted butter?

[Anonymous]

Salted butter?

[Anonymous]

brain cancer

[Anonymous]

Is it tasting salty to everyone, or just you? I know when I got pregnant everything suddenly started tasting saltier than usual. It was dehydration due to needing more fluids and not realizing it yet.

[Anonymous]

Either salted butter or you’re using baking soda instead of baking powder.

[Anonymous]

A weird COVID thing?

[Anonymous]

You have to put a lot of salt to get a really salty taste. Check your sugar…maybe it is salt or reversed something. How much did you put in?

[Anonymous]

I feel like its the equivalent of asking someone with computer problems if their machine is plugged in, but yeah, did you use salt instead of sugar?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for all the thoughts. This truly is a mystery because:

1. No butter used. I subbed yogurt for butter, which I do all the time and never had this issue.
2. It called for brown sugar and not white, so no confusion there.
3. I am not pregnant, nor do I have COVID.
4. If I have brain cancer, I have not yet been diagnosed.
5. It was salty to everyone.

I think I'm just going to have to bake again and pay careful attention and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Any chance you mixed up the tablespoon and the teaspoon? That happened to my sister once and the results were memorable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Either salted butter or you’re using baking soda instead of baking powder.

+1 My first thought. I did this once in college making cookies and they came out so gross.

[Anonymous]

Are you using a scale for the salt? I use my hand instead because even though my scale can measure 6g or whatever a teaspoon is, sometimes it hiccups.

There's probably salt in the yogurt.