Natural Peanut Butter

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  • lesliemk
    lesliemk Posts: 382 Member
    Yum, just stir it in!! It's a great healthy fat. I keep mine in the fridge to keep it from separating again. :)
  • Starlage
    Starlage Posts: 1,709 Member
    Turn it the other way around after using.

    This just changed my life. No more oil spills when stirring maybe? wow! LOL. Seriously, it's little things like this that should be obvious- but I see one and go "oh my gosh, why didn't I think of that?!"
  • PatrickSwayzesGhost
    PatrickSwayzesGhost Posts: 300 Member
    Turn it the other way around after using.

    This just changed my life. No more oil spills when stirring maybe? wow! LOL. Seriously, it's little things like this that should be obvious- but I see one and go "oh my gosh, why didn't I think of that?!"
    I know. I love this community!
  • suzukideb
    suzukideb Posts: 16
    Putting it in a bowel makes it way easier to mix then the small jar. I found mixing the oil in the jar is messy and hard.
  • CharRicho
    CharRicho Posts: 389 Member
    Putting it in a bowel makes it way easier to mix then the small jar. I found mixing the oil in the jar is messy and hard.

    You're thinking of a bowl. Putting it into your bowel would make it very awkward to mix indeed.
  • CharRicho
    CharRicho Posts: 389 Member
    Peanuts actually don't grow on trees..... that's why you haven't heard of "peanut tree oil". They are a bushy plant and the peanuts (you've seen them in the shells I'm sure) grow underground.

    It won't hurt to mix that oil in, PB isn't 'bad' fat. If it worries you, make your own PB. It's not hard. Buy bulk unsalted peanuts and put them through the food processor until smooth (I usually end up adding about 1tbsp of peanut oil per batch to make it smooth).
    Well, I'm sorry. We never learned about peanuts in school. I thought nuts were from trees. I'm sorry. Why does everybody have to keep bringing this up. I thought the butter was a natural product from the tree. I guess if they have to make it, it's not as "natural" as I thought. No peanut butter is natural then.

    Natural peanut butter is just peanuts, ground up. Provided there are no other additives, it is completely natural. Peanuts grow underground, there is a leafy peanut plant that grows out the top. Like a carrot, kinda.

    The oil is a by-product from the peanuts being ground up (most nuts, when you start to grind them, release an oil). It gets mixed into the peanut butter during the grinding, but when it sits for awhile, the oil separates.

    You should stir the oil in, or you can pour it off the top (though if you don't stir it in, your peanut butter will likely be quite hard to spread so I don't recommend it).

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