Yeah yeah I know you guys invented it but modern american peanut butter isn't even peanut butter. That shit just tastes like icing sugar holy shit. It's fine in something small and chocolatey like a reeses cup but I can't eat that shit in a sandwich without feeling sick.
It's supposed to be a savory spread of mashed peanuts in oil and salt, it's not fucking cake frosting
americans when they see a food: i can fill this with high-fructose corn syrup
America is a sugary mess and it's peanut butter is just a symptom.
Yeah, and not just sugar but HFCS. It's in everything here. Even bread for fucks sake.
Not all peanut butter sold in stores is that garbage. There are brands of normal, stir-in-the-oil type peanut butter. They don't get advertised on TV, though.
Can someone tell me what these normal peanut butter brands without the sugar are? I think I tried an organic version once and it was both really liquidy and also didn't taste that much different to me, but I could have a bad palate.
Edit: also, wanting savoury peanut butter on our sugar-ass bread doesn't really help much. Presumably one would want to eat this non-sugary peanut butter on non-sugary bread while we're at it.
My family favored Teddie All Natural Smooth, there's also Smucker's Natural and other brands, and someone else here mentioned store brands. Basically, look at the ingredients, and if they list anything but peanuts and salt, don't buy that.
Picked up Teddie because it was on sale and knowing nothing about it. That stuff rocks. Couldn't believe that the stir in peanut butter could be that good! Most of the more natural peanut butter I had before was just an oil bomb.
If you can afford it, the higher quality organic stuff doesn’t add sugar. Same goes for cashew butter and almond butter.
I use it sparingly because of cost, but the occasional nut butter and jam I do get to have is absolutely divine.
To use an analogy, you are criticizing all American beer using bud lite as the benchmark.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the European cheapest possible no quality control brand is better than the American equivalent, but that’s hardly fair considering you have a functional government and ours allows rat shit greater than zero per gram.
I tried organic once and the texture was too grainy. I wonder if they make nice smooth stuff that just isn't sweet as all hell.
I mix the organic with the fake stuff to retain the peanutty flavor of the natural stuff while adding creaminess from the hydrogenated oil kind
I’ve never had the chance to try grainy, never considered it to be honest. As such I won’t comment on it other than that the notion of a new of trying a new a thing would be pleasing. It’d have to be large grains to notice in a Sando though.
That's it I'm telling George Washington Carver
He called back, said he doesn't give a shit, he never made this stuff
Depends heavily on the brand and formula. You can get peanut butters that are just peanut solids and peanut oil, usually separated out because it's been sitting for a while so you have to use a spoon or something to try to blend it back together but it's a pita cause that stuffs pretty dense.
I find storing the jar upside-down after you mix it really helps with keeping the peanut butter a little looser for some reason.
If you're annoyed by stirring your peanut butter, this changed by life
:100-com: this thing really works, have used it before. Much better than a butter knife.
Damn, buying one those right now
Also the peanut butter they use as an example is one of my favorite brands, it's an employee owned company too
You should see the ones where they add white chocolate or cookie dough into the mix
AND WHEN YOU ADD WHITE CHOCOLATE OR COOKIE DOUGH TO THE MIX, YOUR CHANCES OF DYING OF HEART DISEASE DRASTIC GO UP
Yeah I accidentally bought two kg of that garbage because it looked just like the same brand's real peanut butter whose ingredients are just peanuts.
I ate some and was like tf and I looked on the side and there's fucking icing sugar in it like my God.
Now I have two kg of peanut butter that no one in my house will eat - it's been sitting there until we bake something
Americans see the shit on tv so that's what they buy. And it's true that the vast majority of American peanut butter is shit but you can buy simple peanut butter that's just peanuts and salt. I buy my local supermarket's store brand. And it's cheap too.
We don't see peanut butter on TV any more except for candies for Easter and Halloween. American Television is a non stop pharma commercial about how their products can cause severe alergic reactions, parasitic infections, tuberculosis, certain types of cancer, immunodeficiency, increase suicidal thoughts when it's marketed to prevent them, and sudden death. Also don't take if you're allergic, but the only way to find out is if you take them so 🤷
Americans just see cheap because they can't afford the more natural stuff.
I just checked and my Jif peanut butter has 1 gram of added sugar per tablespoon. That's barely anything, but the taste is definitely a bit different from unemulsified peanut butter. Actually it's been a while since I've had any of that so I should try it again and see if my tastes have changed. The smooth texture is from the partially hydrogenated oil and not the sugar. Where are you finding super sweet peanut butter outside of candy?
I just buy the peanut and salt stuff, gotta check the ingredients, but you can usually tell if you have to mix it or not
I wonder how long it would take a good food processor to pay itself off in peanut butter alone
I've had a vitamix for 3 years now and it's worth it if you can afford the upfront cost. Just made some walnut butter that was awesome. Ive also made almond and pecan butter. You can control the sugar and salt content. Even add cocoa for a nutella like version!
