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Peanut butter (feddit.dk)

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lots of US peanut butters are "no-stir" by substituting some of the oil with basically a margarine-like fat (solid, hydrogenated oils replace some of the peanut oil so that the oil never separates and needs to be stirred in again)

If you use normal peanut butter, here are some tips I've found:

turn the peanut butter jar upside down so the lid is at the bottom where the solid peanut butter collects, and the oil collects at the "top" (which is now the bottom of the jar). This means when you open the jar and stir it, the oil is already at the bottom and you don't have hard peanut butter stuck at the bottom that you can't ever get incorporated
once you have opened a new jar and stirred it thoroughly, store the peanut butter in the fridge to make the peanut oil become more solid and doesn't separate as quickly, and in my experience this prevents having to stir it again for the rest of the life of the jar

But I also just eat the no-stir hydrogenated peanut butter now because it's extremely cheap and I'm unemployed.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

That's the saddest part. It's cheaper to eat the manufactured factory food that they bugger around with than it is to eat healthy. What a cliff capitalism has led us to.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

I guess it's better than never being able to afford peanut butter? I sort of have a renewed respect for mass produced / factory foods that make food more financially accessible.

I eat pasta that is fortified because the cheap pasta has extra vitamins added, there are some good things about this even if the pasta isn't as tasty as the more expensive brands.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

It's all the filler. Because it's there. And the mass production, sure.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

forever greatful the co-op by me has a fresh peanut butter machine, its only $2.99 a pound which isnt bad. At best the store brand US style PB is $2.50 a pound. Worth the 50cents imo, and It's even a bit cheaper I save 10% by bringing my own jar!

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

The cheap off-brand no-stir peanut butter I eat is $1.50 / lb ($0.35 / 100 g), the nice organic peanut butter I like to buy is $7.65 / lb ($1.69 / 100 g)

I could probably make my own peanut butter at home (I have a Vitamix), but I don't know where I would buy cheap peanuts.

Either way, I enjoy the taste of the cheap, no-stir peanut butter (I was raised on stuff like this), and I don't really understand or appreciate whatever health impact it may or may not have to eat the cheap peanut butter vs the more expensive one - whereas I very much do appreciate the economic cost of the higher peanut butter and that immediate effect on my grocery bill.

[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

I have envy.