How to stir peanut butter in 30 seconds.

[WinterDeere]

Try the real PB, do as suggested in this thread and you will be in for a treat. It's that good.

My wife mostly stocks Richard's 100% peanuts. Is that "real" enough?



Not terrible, but I still prefer the "fake" stuff I grew up on in the 1970's / 1980's. Maybe my palette is just too uneducated.

 

[sixdogs]

Richards at 100% sounds like a winner.

 

[keony]

Richards at 100% sounds like a winner.

We've been eating Richard's for years, won't touch anything else.

 

[sixdogs]

Almond butter separates also.

Since we're new to using almond butter, I discovered that recently. No need to put jar in warm water, just open, mix for 20 seconds and it's wonderful.

 

[WinterDeere]

Since we're new to using almond butter...

Now that we've diverged from peanut butter, this seems like an appropriate place for some Professor Nut Butter:

 

[caver]

It was maybe 18 years ago. It was first breakfast on a week long commercial rafting trip down the Grand Canyon. I sometimes like peanut butter and strawberry jelly on toast. Guide hands me a jar. I open it up and thought it was old. They said no its' natural just needs stirring. I've bought natural peanut butter ever since.

 

[oosik]

My Mom never let peanut butter in her house. She didn't think it was good for us kids. First taste of PB was when I went to college.

NOW - That white axle grease in the plastic bag with the yellow capsule. My father would not allow it on the table. He had to have real butter. I think he found out about the "white stuff" when he was in the army. Squeezing the bag was a job for us kids.

 

[sixdogs]

My Mom never let peanut butter in her house. She didn't think it was good for us kids. First taste of PB was when I went to college.

NOW - That white axle grease in the plastic bag with the yellow capsule. My father would not allow it on the table. He had to have real butter. I think he found out about the "white stuff" when he was in the army. Squeezing the bag was a job for us kids.

For some reason, probably because it was cheap, I've had peanut butter since a little kid. Here are some reasons why 100% PB is good for you.

When You Eat Peanut Butter Every Day, This Is What Happens To Your Body - The List

Peanut butter was likely one of your staple foods during childhood and, let's be honest, adulthood. But have you ever wondered what it's doing to your body?

www.thelist.com

 

[sixdogs]

Almond butter separates also.

We just started eating almond butter and discovered it mixes easier and even better than peanut butter. I did put the new jar into warm water for an hour and it mixed up quickly and tasted great.

Almond butter is less dense so I could imagine doing a second mix when you get to the half way of the jar and it would air up the bottom half for easier eating.

Almond butter--and to a lesser degree peanut butter have many nutritional benefits and can improve your cholesterol numbers and heart health.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yep, I have an adult niece who went into anaphylaxis at a restaurant and nearly died due to a trace of peanuts in one dish, an appetizer or soup, I think. Very scary stuff. I think about that every time I hear the phrase "There's nothing not good about peanut butter." And I love peanut butter!

Thank goodness we're all more educated about nut allergies, and the risks they pose. I saw a report a year or so ago about a protocol for desensitizing some folks to the allergy. James, you probably already know about it. I think this was the clinical trial: New treatment may offer hope for peanut allergy - CNN.com

My wife is deathly allergic to peanuts, and I just had a peanut butter sandwich for lunch.

 

[WinterDeere]

My wife is deathly allergic to peanuts, and I just had a peanut butter sandwich for lunch.

No kissing!

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Sixdogs is speaking of 100% natural pb, where the oil tends to separate out over time due to the absence of additives found in the processed version, such as hydrogenated vegetable oil.

For me, I confess to being an off-the-shelf Jif Extra Crunchy guy. :licking:

At the risk of starting a flame war among my TBN friends: Natural Peanut Butter Naturally Bad, Says Cook's Illustrated - Chowhound

Now I'm hungry.

Jif is the best tasting peanut butter on the market, and no stirring.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

One of my sons staples is peanut butter, he eats A LOT!! So we stay with the good stuff, I HATE stirring it as it is next to impossible to do it without getting it on something. I will look for a dough hook like the OP mentions, looks like a good method.

 

[WinterDeere]

Jif is the best tasting peanut butter on the market, and no stirring.

My kids have only ever had 100% natural peanut butter. If they ever have the pleasure of tasting the good old Jif or Skippy upon which I grew up, and if their heads don't just explode on the spot, they may never forgive their mother for a decade of forcing that 100% natural stuff on them.

 

[sixdogs]

One of my sons staples is peanut butter, he eats A LOT!! So we stay with the good stuff, I HATE stirring it as it is next to impossible to do it without getting it on something. I will look for a dough hook like the OP mentions, looks like a good method.

And follow the advice. Store PB upside down and put jar in hot water up to its neck for an hour or so before you open and mix.
Take it easy at first, get the areas at the bottom of the jar and have wife hold jar while mixing.

Start slow and read this thread for developments that were discovered along the way. When done, I bet it's the best PB you have ever had. Son should elevate you to legendary status.

 

[oosik]

Then - with a medium to wide sheetrock spatula - carefully scrape the results off - ceiling, walls and floor. Forget the dust. Remove the dog hair, dust bunnies and other associated trash.

 

[sixdogs]

One of my sons staples is peanut butter, he eats A LOT!! So we stay with the good stuff, I HATE stirring it as it is next to impossible to do it without getting it on something. I will look for a dough hook like the OP mentions, looks like a good method.

Also find the part where we talk about storing PB upside down and then putting the unopened jar in hot water for an hour or so before mixing. the heat turns the PB to almost liquid and it mixes real easy. It's the best PB he will ever have.

 

[sixdogs]

Major discovery recently since we found a different mixer blade that works faster and better. It mixed peanut butter more thoroughly in the bottom of the jar and didn't leave compacted corners of PB. Impressive performance so the dough hook in the first post of this thread has been superseded by the hand mixer blade shown below.


Wife says it's from a Cuisinart mixer that she got rid of. This has me thinking of a PB&J sandwich one day soon.

 

[masscity]

Major discovery recently since we found that a different mixer blade that works faster and better. It mixed peanut butter more thoroughly in the bottom of the jar and didn't leave compacted corners of PB. Impressive performance so the dough hook in the first post of this thread has been superseded by the hand mixer blade shown below.

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Wife says it's from a Cuisinart mixer that she got rid of. This has me thinking of a PB&J sandwich one day soon.

After reading on this forum how to mix peanut butter, I bought a mixer from Amazon and the dough hook looks just like

yours and works great.

 

[bdhsfz6]

I don't stir it. I just dump the oil that forms on top and use the thick stuff in the mouse traps.