/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5389653]

Hey /ck/,

Does anyone here have recommendations for peanut butter brands other than Skippy / Jif?

I want to try something that is a little less bland / sugary for my daily lunch. I like both chunky and smooth, but probably prefer smooth.

Feedback much appreciated.

/peanut butter general/

[Anonymous No.5389682]

smart balance is pretty good.

it's sweetened with with cane sugar and a bit of molasses. tastes cleaner

[Anonymous No.5389689]

>>5389682

Thanks for the recommendation. Do you stir it before use?

[Anonymous No.5389699]

>>5389689

no, it has stabilizing oils. i've never seen separation.

[Anonymous No.5389707]

>2014
>still using nut butter

[Anonymous No.5389713]

best peanut butter around.

I eat a jar a month

[Anonymous No.5389729]

>>5389707

>implying I go to hipster joes

>>5389713

>implying I want to buy 300 gallons of peanut butter

[Anonymous No.5389737]

>>5389729

Why wouldn't you ??????

[Anonymous No.5389746]

>>5389729
>what is amazon

[Anonymous No.5389761]

>not buying natural peanut butter

[Anonymous No.5389763]

try to make your own peanut butter!
taste outstanding delicious.
something like 130g peanuts, 1 tablespoon olive /peanut oil and 5g sugar. Just Puree it slowly until you have the required consistancy.
Enjoy your most delicious peanut butter,

[Anonymous No.5389775]

>>5389763
forgot to say that you have to roast them in a pan

[Anonymous No.5389780]

>>5389713
Eugh, creamy.
Only thing worse is sweetened white bread.

Extra Chunky with on 5 seed rye's with sea salt's the only proper way.

[Anonymous No.5389784]

>>5389713
Holy shit, do they still have it where you are? They quit selling it here for almost two years now. Ever since that salmonella (or was it listeria) outbreak at their peanut-processing supplier.

[Anonymous No.5389791]

Crazy Richard's. 100% peanuts.

[Anonymous No.5389793]

Smucker's natural PB is pretty good. It's available nationwide.

There was a regional brand called Holsum which was excellent, but I haven't seen it in several years. Not sure if they went out of business.

Generally, I find that any of the "natural" peanut butters are all pretty good and pretty much the same. Peanuts, salt, crush to a slightly grainy consistency. You can add a little sugar if you want to sweeten it up a bit.

[Anonymous No.5389808]

oh goddamn I cant believe you're getting solid suggestions from /ck/. from my experience on this bitchass board, one should buy anything prepared and make every single thing you consume. so

OP, buy some farmland and grow your own peanut crop
roast them in an antique roaster from the industrial revolution era
grind them to your preference
eat with a mother of pearl spoon and a huge dildo in your bungho

[Anonymous No.5389810]

>>5389791
No salt?

[Anonymous No.5389813]

>>5389791
To reiterate...

>>5389810
No salt. Only peanuts. All the time peanuts.

OH MY GOD PEANUTS.

[Anonymous No.5389827]

>>5389813
Nice, makes me super jelly, we've no PB culture around here so it's either the cheapest most industrial shit ever, likely rejected from emergency relief packages, the sort with labels in 8 Cyrillic languages.

Have to go to obscure speciality shops to even find chunky PB, an those servings are entirely to mall and overpriced to satisfy my raging addiction.

[Anonymous No.5389865]

>>5389827
International shipping, friend.

http://www.kremaproducts.com/Crazy-Richards-Peanut-Butter/products/1/

12 lb cases of the dog's catnip.

[Anonymous No.5389869]

Man wish I was back in America
I miss the based peanut buttery goodness

I used to eat PB & J for days :(

[Anonymous No.5390019]

>>5389808
Well, that would be best, of course, but we have to be realistic in this age of declining economies.

[Anonymous No.5390023]

>>5389808
Also, that would be illegal in the USA because muh peanut farming allotments. And it wouldn't even matter if it was just for your own personal consumption because Wickard v. Filburn says that has an effect on commerce that the federal government can regulate.

[Anonymous No.5390174]

>>5389784

Yeah, its been brought back in most places. They also have chunky in some costcos

[Anonymous No.5390175]

Thanks for the recommendations guys, i'll try some of these out.

[Anonymous No.5390255]

Smuckers natural. You have to stir it but it's totally worth it. Best PB ever. It helps make it easier to stir if you store it upside down when you first get it.

[Anonymous No.5390361]

>>5390255
If you store it upside down that just means all the fat's at the bottom of the jar and the stuff you get off the top is dry.

[Anonymous No.5390676]

>>5390361

If you stored it long enough I guess that would happen, but when you store it upside down after bringing it home it generally just gets halfway there by the time you use it, which means the oil is kind of evenly dispersed throughout the jar so it makes it easier to stir. Also, even if it did totally reverse itself the oil would still rise to the top and be right next to the compressed butter instead of the compressed butter being stuck to the bottom which would make it easier to stir. We got one of those huge jars of it and did this and it made it easier to stir.

[Anonymous No.5390705]

>>5390174
Awesome. I shall have to hope it returns here too.

[Anonymous No.5390743]

>Implying there's any brand other than. Adams that's worth eating.
pic fucking related.

[Anonymous No.5393035]

don't mind me, just being awesome.

[Anonymous No.5393059]

>>5389780
this guy knows what's up

[Anonymous No.5393083]

>>5390743
I bought that once, I can't figure out how to use it. First thing out of the jar is good, but after refrigerating, the pb is hard and there's no taste at all. When you reach the bottom of the jar, the pb is like eating salt by the spoonfuls.
I'll stick with Kraft.

[Anonymous No.5393389]

>>5389791
This guy knows what's up. My store only sells Krema, but both Krema and Crazy Richards are produced by the same company, I think.

[Anonymous No.5393407]

>>5393083
>2014
>putting your peanut butter in the fridge

[Anonymous No.5393645]

This thread was much more successful than I thought it would be, thanks guys.

[Anonymous No.5393656]

>>5389865
>that tiny ass fence

[Anonymous No.5393664]

>>5393407
I never had to with Kraft, but the Adam's label suggest refrigeration due to lack of preservatives

[Anonymous No.5393677]

[Anonymous No.5393687]

Call me simple but Kroger brand Chunky peanutbutter is my favorite.

[Anonymous No.5393703]

>>5393407
How's your Sonichu comic coming along, Chris-Chan?

[Anonymous No.5393720]

this right here if you can find it

[Anonymous No.5393724]

>>5389780
>Extra Chunky

no thanks, I don't like seeing undigested food in my stool.

[Anonymous No.5393735]

>>5393389

This stuff is great.
It is a bit runnier because lack of fillers but thats a good thing.

[Anonymous No.5394217]

>>5393720
Could you please post a larger and higher-resolution image file for your shitty-ass turd-tier locally distributed peanut slime? I was unable to see the individual strands of paper in the label.

[Anonymous No.5394224]

>>5394217
>his images dont open on the mainpage
>>5393724
is extra chunky that bad? or is your digestive system garbage?

[Anonymous No.5394772]

>>5389713
Not sure if the last jar I got was just screwed up, but it was dryer than the crusty armpits of a ginger with exema in Arizona during the winter.

[Fast Food Hut No.5394785]

Making peanut butter is easy as fuck. But in case you need brands.

Peanut butter & co is pretty good. Planters is very good. Reese's is alright.

There are other nut butters i'd recommend too. Cashew butter is great. Sunflower seed butter is great.

[Anonymous No.5394789]

>>5389793
>Smucker's natural PB is pretty good. It's available nationwide.
This is my go to peanut butter, though Publix and Winn-Dixie have good store brands. I only buy skippy/jif is the sale is incredible or there's a hurricane warning and there's nothing left on the shelves.

[Anonymous No.5395852]

I keep seeing this stuff and I keep wondering what this stuff would be used in

I'm assuming normally you're supposed to mix it with some water to make peanut butter but why not just, you know, buy peanut butter. it's cheap, this is pretty expensive by comparison.

[Anonymous No.5395855]

>>5395852
oops, forgot pic.

[jennyR No.5395872]

>>5395852
Like the label says, it's comparatively low fat because it's just dry peanut mass. Probably the trash left over after making peanut oil, fluffed up to fill the jar nicely.

If you were being very restrictive on fats while needing ready protein or some other foolish reason It might make sense to prepare an ersatz "peanut butter" peanut-solids-with-trace-fats-and-water-spread.

Plus, it's smart and new and cool, all the kids are eating everything powdered these days.. right?

[Anonymous No.5395889]

>>5395872
>Probably the trash left over after making peanut oil
Yep

[Anonymous No.5395892]

>>5390743
Fuck I love this shit
*internet high five*

[Anonymous No.5395954]

Put this on a good toasted wheat bread. Enjoy with some blackberries and glass of milk. Delicious breakfast and ready in 5 minutes.

[Anonymous No.5396514]

>>5394217

[Anonymous No.5396603]

>>5390255
This a hundred times over. With a name like Smuckers, you just know it's good.

[Anonymous No.5396622]

>>5395852
>>5395855
>>5395872
>>5395889
Cool. I think it would be useful for adding peanut flavor to baked goods too. Don't see why you guys think it's "trash", we separate cacao into cocoa butter and cocoa solids all the time, optionally remixing them to get a specific flavor profile (Hershey's milk chocolate, or 99% cocoa "dark chocolate", or white chocolate, or somewhere in between).

[Anonymous No.5396642]

Has anyone tried that powdered peanut butter? I'm curious but its almost 5 dollars a bottle.

[Anonymous No.5396664]

I FUCKING LOVE PEANUT BUT!!!TER!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.5396697]

>>5390743
>Creamy

Well, at least you got the important part right.

Adams 5 lyfe; people who eat sweetened PB are mentally defective and people who eat emulsified peanut butters are even worse.

>>5393083
It's not emulsified; you have to mix the oil in by hand. If you do it thoroughly (and I'm talking 5-10 minutes of stirring depending on how warm your kitchen is) and store the jar in a cool, dark place then you won't have to do it again for weeks.

[Anonymous No.5396701]

i don't get the deal with all natural peanut butter. i mean i may as well just buy peanuts. i like my peanut butter as a sweet, creamy peanut frosting.

[Anonymous No.5396864]

If you can find it, this is the shit.

[Anonymous No.5396873]

http://nypost.com/2014/04/19/the-tyranny-of-the-organic-mommy-mafia/

>“Am I going to be an outcast?” A friend, who recently moved to an upscale neighborhood in Madison, Wis., called me last week to ask if she would be able to make mommy friends if she continued feeding her children — gasp! — non-organic food.

>She had just come back from the park where two mothers were discussing a recent vacation to a resort in Puerto Rico. One told the other that there, for the first time, her toddler was given Jif peanut butter. He loved it. Prior to that he had only had Whole Foods peanut butter, which (one might guess) pales in comparison for a 3-year-old palate.

>When the boy came home and asked for more Jif, his mother told him it wasn’t available — that it was “Puerto Rican peanut butter.”

>Wrapped up in that phrase is all of the arrogance and class snobbery of the organic-food mafia. If these moms haven’t come to your neighborhood yet, just wait.

Organic peanut butter: a form of oppression used by libruls and homosexuals to make hard working people feel guilty about being white, straight, and feeding their children cheap sugar-filled garbage.

[Anonymous No.5396895]

>>5396873

go to bed, tinfoil hatted retard.

[Anonymous No.5396904]

>>5396873
i work in the arts and the organic mafia is strong there.

i am strong and make excuses for eating shit food because it is organic

[Anonymous No.5396927]

I eat a fuckton of peanutbutter, so I just try to stay away from the ones with partially hydrolized oils and stuff like that. Usually I buy the stuff that's just peanuts, salt, and some sugar.

The ones that need to be stirred always seem to taste best. However, the downside there is that stirring is never perfect, and when I get to the bottom of the jar I always get the super-thick part that makes me feel like I'm eating playdough. Same goes for alternative butters like almondbutter and sunflower butter.

[Anonymous No.5396938]

>>5396864
2th this.

[Anonymous No.5397773]

>>5389780
yaaas
that sea salt thing sounds phenomenal must try that