Schooling at Home

▼

Friday, December 2, 2011

Fast-Stir Peanut Butter


I really love the all-natural peanut butter made of straight up peanuts and salt. The flavor is just so pure and delicious! The downside is, yes, the stirring to reincorporate the oil. Those darn peanut oils! Sure, they've come up with no-stir natural peanut butters, but do you know how they're non-stir? It's because of the extra cottonseed/palm oil they add to it. Yuck! 

Well, if you're like me you've slaved over one of those jars - laboriously shoving the knife around the jar, sloshing oils over the side, and wishing you had done this earlier so that you could just have your stinking peanut butter sandwich now! Today was one of those days. 

And then... I had a breakthrough. Why was I putting myself through the agony? Why should I have to stand there for 15 minutes to get a semi-mixed peanut butter and oil all over the counter while my kids went hungry? No more! I dumped all that peanut butter into a mixing bowl, whipped out my electric hand mixer and beat that peanut butter into submission!! It took 2 minutes. The peanut butter is now smooth and creamy and perfectly blended. What a relief!

Why did I wait so long to do it this way? I guess besides necessity, desperation is also the mother of invention.

4 comments:

  1. Holly HoxDecember 3, 2011 at 9:19 AM

    I HATE stirring peanut butter more than anything. Thank you so much for sharing this tip! I had resorted to buying organic 'no stir' peanut butter, but still have a few jars of 'stir yourself', so this might be a good solution :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sarah RachelleDecember 3, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    You will be so amazed! I was skeptical that it was actually going to work and was surprised when it did! Happy no stirring! Yay!

    ReplyDelete
  3. SisterbrendaDecember 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM

    What a great tip.. Do you have a recipe of that? I would have no idea how much peanuts or oil to put in thanks.. God Bless

    ReplyDelete
  4. Sarah RachelleDecember 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM

    Brenda- No recipe. I just dumped out the jar of peanut butter that already had the separated oils with it and blended it all together. Then I cleaned off the jar and put the peanut butter back in. No stirring required on my part!

    ReplyDelete