Peanut Butter anyone?

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What's with all the peanut butter you ask? Well if you know me or Aaron you know that we love that scrumptious stuff. I mean really love it. Between us we can finish a jar in one day. No I'm not exaggerating. Well it was our date night last night and we decided to find out which brand of peanut butter we liked the best. So after a quick trip to Fry's we came up with 7 options, which we split into 2 categories: natural and regular. And we didn't just try them all and decide we did this the right way .... blind taste test. I cut up a piece of paper and assigned each brand a letter. Then I cut even smaller pieces of paper and wrapped them around the spoon holding that specific brand's letter (I would have taken a picture of this as well but my very clean husband threw them away). What about cleansing the palate you ask? You are just full of good questions today, well being the purist we are we took a long drink of milk between each test. We drank about half a gallon for this little experiment in case you were wondering. After this extensive and rather delicious experiment we came up with these results

  • Natural: Kroger won out over Laura Scudders (both of these need to be refrigerated so they don't separate just thought you might want to know)
  • Reason: Scudder's was waaaaay to grainy for my taste, I want a smoother consistency

  • Regular: Jiff or Skippy Natural. We didn't put Skippy Natural in the Natural category because unlike the other naturals it doesn't need to be refrigerated.
  • Reason: both of these had a very smooth consistency as well as a rich peanut taste. Also it lacked the weird sort of burnt taste of Peter Pan. Yeah it was kinda gross after the goodness of others.

And so ended our research of that versatile, high protein wonder food, peanut butter.

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3 Reply to "Peanut Butter anyone?"

  • Alicia W on February 6, 2009 at 9:10 PM

    How fun and educational. Thank you for the research. Did crunchy play a part in the experiment?

     

    hc on February 7, 2009 at 6:48 PM

    I like you already...of course my brother married you...if you like peanut butter that much you have to be part of the Boushley's. This is one reason my husband and I get along so well...he too is a peanut butter fan. In our family we usually have both natural and regular in the house. We go with what we can find for the natural at the commissary...it's Smuckers out here but I think it's the same as Laura Schudders...although my husband feels the need to add a tiny bit of kosher salt and honey when we mix it the first time. For regular we too prefer Jif although we've picked Skippy Natural thinking that palm oil (what keeps it solid at room temperature) even though not great for you is probably better than the partially hydrogenated whatever that's in the Jif. Anyway, thanks for sharing. That was fun! And I actually learned more about you! Yeah for sisters!

     

    bettijo @ PagingSupermom.com on February 8, 2009 at 6:37 PM

    Very interesting... next week you should try comparing ginger ales. We've actually been wanting to do that for some time. Maybe we should get together and do that?? :)

    I LOVE Laura Scudders (& Smuckers which is the exact same and manufactured in the same facility and Laura Scudders). I totally stock up when these go on sale. I like the graininess... don't like creamy.

     

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