Defend the Indefensible: Natural Peanut Butter

All you got for me in mashed nuts beneath a pit of oil. Attempting to mix them means counter oil flood, and even if I SUCCEEDED in mixing the oil and nut mash, you taste like oily nut mash.

Fuck you nature.

it's really good added to recipes like peanut soup or satay or etc. not too sweet or salty or processed-tasting.

i've never tried this, but maybe you could harvest the excess peanut oil to use as peanut oil? valued because of nutritional benefits & high smoke point.

But then you get crappy, dried-out pb!

I've definitely splashed peanut oil on myself while trying to mix the separated PB. That said, I have a jar of "no stir" organic crunchy PB in my cupboard right now, so maybe this is a false dichotomy? On the other side of the continuum, Peter Pan doesn't really taste like peanuts.

A little mud for your toast, then?

Borderline inedible unless you add a dab of honey, at which point you wonder why you just didn't buy some processed, sweetened peanut butter in the first place.

Turn jar upside-down for 1 month prior to opening and then mix with impunity.

Can't wait 1 month? Buy fresh ground PB and another jar for next mo you PB hogg.

There is an orchard round these parts that makes honey-roasted pb, which is the shit. No going back.

you wonder why you just didn't buy some processed, sweetened peanut butter in the first place.

― Tantrum The Cat, Monday, December 1, 2008 4:57 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

uh, because sweetened peanut butter tastes disgusting. unsweetened jam or jelly on the other hand is fucking inedible.

you mean incredible?

the upside-down thing doesn't take a month. maybe a few days. and it's not really that hard to stir without massive spillage, it just takes time. (i use a butterknife into the center, stir in gently widening circles.) the kind i buy does have a little salt in it. but i pretty much can't eat anything but "natural" peanut butter. (the other stuff isn't really peanut butter at all, imo. it's some kind of peanut sugar-paste.)

assail the unassalable: some kind of peanut sugar-paste

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i have friends who think generic non-natural peanut butter is inedible and disgusting and way over-processed, whereas i think it tastes just fine, although natural peanut butter is okay too. i sort of suspect that if the tastes were reversed, they'd be complaining about how processed peanut butter is just mashed nuts and oil.

also, i use regular peanut butter in sauces and i've never had a problem with it being too sweet. sometimes i even add honey, if i'm also using a good amount of soy sauce.

hey i love this shit

i'd like to add that in favor of regular peanut butter is that it's cheap...the whole point of peanut butter is that it's a cheap food that makes you full.

natural non-peanut nut butters are great though, i almost never have an excuse to eat them but almond butter is heavenly.

(I should note that whole foods 365 brand natural is premixed, reasonably sweet, and cheaper than generic brand fake pb in my hood)

this is all i buy

it's great, ian is otm. peanut exists to be put on PB&Js and in sauces. on a sandwich, the jam does the sweetening, in a sauce you do not want a peanut sugar-paste.

eating straight from the jar, however, is solely the dominion of peanut sugar-pastes.

Don't know what is wrong with you people. Natural peanut butter is delish and sweetened/smoothed-out peanut butter is usually disgusting.

peanut butter + sugar can be a great thing. i like peanut butter pie, peanut butter ice cream, peanut butter cookies, the sweetened peanut sauces you get in thai food. but i also like nonsweetened peanut butter -- especially on toast (my favorite breakfast these days). if you buy peanut butter that already has sugar in it, you eliminate a whole peanut butter taste spectrum. and if i want sweetened peanut butter, it tastes better to use actual peanut butter and add sugar.

i bet these haters also go bananas for white castle

D:

Peanut butter cake is absolutely disgusting.

when will anti-elitist populism finally reach the peanut butter world?

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fuck you radiohead, you sound like oily nut mash

I also hate peanut butter cookies and peanut butter in ice cream. I am not against the idea of anything sweet + peanut, i just prefer a savory taste on my toast (with jam added if I want sweetness -- more flavor contrast that way)

tomorrow, for breakfast, i believe i will be having homemade raspberry jam and lancashire cheese on a toasted bagel.

penn state creamery's peanut butter ice cream helped get me through college. also much love for friendly's reese's pieces sundae w/gloopy peanut sauce (+ 5 scoops of ice cream). but yeah, on toast, sandwiches, etc., gimme the nat. nut.

natty nut

:-/

y'all ain't got the natty nut?

Send "Gimmie That Nut" Ringtone to Cell Phone

not to be confused with plumpy'nut.

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i am hella allergic to peanuts but i love all natural crunchy almond butter

Ok I didn't read this thread, but my only personal defense for the stuff is that this stuff...

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...is much scarier to me. Like won't even try it and I'll eat about anything at least once.

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My friends all eat this bullshit on natural whole grain bread and make me feel like some American consumer yuppie zombie because I like Jif on Wonder Bread.

"But that stuff is all sweetened and unnatural"

"I know, that's why it tastes awesome"

i know someone who made his own "natural peanut butter" while living in argentina. apparently he crushed up peanuts and added oil, salt, and sugar. no verdict on how the taste compared, he was just really proud of it.

what? this is wrong! i hate hate hate normal peanut butter. it's like glue. too sticky, thick, and smooth. love natural peanut butter on anything though.

HOOS is on the money and anybody who doesn't prefer natural peanut butter to gross candy bar corn syrup festival peanut butter is crazy

nuts, even

you don't have to add oil to make it. i get it from the peanut butter machine at the co-op. it's just peanuts!