Kirkland Organic Peanut Butter

[Ann-Marie]

Does anyone buy the Kirkland Organic Peanut Butter? I'm wondering how you mix it up to get the oil stirred back into the peanuts. What a process! I finally discovered throwing it in the food processor and storing in the refrigerator works and it does not settle again.

 

[rickandcindy23]

Every time Rick uses his organic peanut butter and almond butter from Costco, he puts it in the food processor. It's a pain to clean up, so I make him do it. Because he now cleans up his own peanut butter mess, he will actually bake a batch of cookies every time he makes a sandwich. It's great for me.

 

[Ann-Marie]

I found that if you refrigerate it immediately, it will stay blended so you have have to do it once each jar. Still a huge mess.

 

[Kona Lovers]

Avoid the hassle and buy Skippy.

 

[Passepartout]

I got a big (Costco-size) jar of almond butter. I'll try blending and refrigerating it to keep it smooth. Delicious stuff, but what a PITA to stir the oil into for a sammy!

Jim Ricks

 

[sue1947]

I've been buying the old fashioned peanut butter for years. 2 tips: first, turn the jar upside down before opening and the oil will filter up through the peanut butter. Open it before it settles at the other end and you won't have to do much stirring. If that doesn't work, I dump it into a plastic container that is about twice as big as the jar. I use a butter knife to stir it up; doesn't take much time and it's less mess than getting anything electric involved. Once stirred, store in the refrigerator and it won't separate again.

I buy Adams old fashioned and unsalted so it's nothing but peanuts. I find the commercial ones (Skippy, Jif etc) to be absolutely awful with the salt, sugar, chemical stabilizers; you can't even taste the peanuts. Somebody recently gave me a jar they couldn't use at the end of a vacation and I ended up throwing it out.

Sue

 

[wackymother]

I've been buying the old fashioned peanut butter for years. 2 tips: first, turn the jar upside down before opening and the oil will filter up through the peanut butter. Open it before it settles at the other end and you won't have to do much stirring.

We buy Smucker's Crunchy and this is what we do--store the jars upside down.

Another way to mix the oil back in is to open the jar carefully (with the oil at the top) and then take a butter knife and gently poke down into the peanut butter a few times so the oil seeps down. Then, because you did this, you get to take a spoon and delicately lift off the tasty crunchy peanuts and eat them bit by bit. This gives you more room to take your butter knife and start stirring the peanut butter to mix the oil in.

 

[rickandcindy23]

Great tips, but I won't tell any of them to Rick. Yay cookies!

 

[Ann-Marie]

I absolutely hated peanut butter until I tried the all natural with just peanuts. There is no sugar in it. I love it on toasted dark bread and I use it for my puppy in her kong.