Peanut Butter - How to measure it?

there's peanut butter left on the spoon afterwards???? How does that happen?? I've never seen this phenomena...

Eyeballing peanut butter is a NO NO. Peanut butter is deceiving!

I personally use a digital kitchen scale for that matter.
Place jar on scale, turn on scale so it reads a zero, spoon out some peanut butter, the scale then reads grams in minus, which is how much I spooned out.

You have to be smarter than peanut butter.

food scale...

This is the easiest way to weigh peanut butter... no muss no fuss! Weigh your open jar of peanut butter, zero out the scale (set tare). Take whatever, then remeasure the jar, this is your serving in grams.

Me either, spoon usually goes in mouth 'til it is cleaner than when it was before I scooped out the PB.

Maybe he's not eating it off the spoon.

Is this a trick question?

Look on the label...somewhere there's a "serving size."

If that letter next to the number (corresponding to "serving size") is a "g," it's referring to "grams."

Place the amount of peanut butter you wish to eat on a food scale (I'll leave the details of how to acquire this item as an exercise for the reader).

Weigh the peanut butter, using the same standard of measurement (grams, if that was noted as the unit for the "serving size"), using the scale.

Calculate how many calories said peanut butter amounts to (this may require some advanced math), based on the relationship between what you weighed and the "serving size."

You are now done!

Note: Although I've tried to be as thorough as possible, some details always slip through the cracks. I apologize if this hasn't been appropriately helpful.

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Eyeballing peanut butter is a NO NO. Peanut butter is deceiving!

I personally use a digital kitchen scale for that matter.
Place jar on scale, turn on scale so it reads a zero, spoon out some peanut butter, the scale then reads grams in minus, which is how much I spooned out.

You have to be smarter than peanut butter.

I am not smarter than peanut butter. I now use a measuring spoon and level it across with another spoon. I would prefer to just use and ice cream scoop and fill it all the way...

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there's peanut butter left on the spoon afterwards???? How does that happen?? I've never seen this phenomena...

Me either, spoon usually goes in mouth 'til it is cleaner than when it was before I scooped out the PB.

^^ yep...this!!

We use a digital scale and measure in grams. It works great for my kids too because then I know they're not eating half the jar in one sitting!

I always weigh it. If I am having it on toast, I put the toast on the scale and zero it out, then spread the peanut butter to get my serving size in grams.

I weight it on kitchen scale. I lay the bread on the scale hit the "zero"button toss the scale only shows the peanut butter weight.. Then add the PB to the bread.

You guys ROCK. You have just changed my relationship with peanut butter. I never thought about putting the dang jar on the scale. :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Instead of a spoon I use a butter knife. That way you get more peanut butter in the desired product (sammich, smoothie, protein shake, ice cream, etc.) and can still lick the knife clean and your finger.

Oh, and a food scale but I was not doing that simple tare it to zero method, I was doing subtraction :grumble:

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Put peanut butter jar on scale, zero it, scoop out peanut butter, read weight.

I use a tablespoon, and a small spatula to clear as much out/off of my spoon as possible. When that is done, I insert measuring spoon into my mouth and proceed to make out with it until it's clean enough to wipe on my jeans and put it back in the drawer.

the nutrition content is based on a tablespoon so i use that --- weighing it seems like extra work for no real reason

Use measuring cups/tablespoons for food, and then weigh it. You'll find out why weighing it matters.