What's the deal with peanut butter?
Jan. 23rd, 2009 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
Nowadays, the mark of a good quality peanut butter seems to be that the oil separates. I've heard friends bitching about how they want to buy peanut butter but they're annoyed and/or disgusted by separating oil. There's everlastingly people giving tips on how to incorporate that oil into the peanut butter again. It's like one of those things that's newly discovered and yet... not as new as all that.
But... I clearly recall storebrand peanut butter from my childhood - like, ten or fifteen years ago, which just isn't that long - with the oil separating at the top! And I never thought anything about it, I just stirred it in. I think even name-brand (but not fancy organic and all natural with nothing but peanuts and salt (and how that gets to be fancy I don't know!) stuff) would usually come home with a layer of oil on the top. Not an inch deep or anything, but some.
I don't see that at all now, except with the nice brands.
What the hell happened in the past ten years to not only change this situation but, apparently, to erase most people's memories of how to deal with oil in peanut butter?
But... I clearly recall storebrand peanut butter from my childhood - like, ten or fifteen years ago, which just isn't that long - with the oil separating at the top! And I never thought anything about it, I just stirred it in. I think even name-brand (but not fancy organic and all natural with nothing but peanuts and salt (and how that gets to be fancy I don't know!) stuff) would usually come home with a layer of oil on the top. Not an inch deep or anything, but some.
I don't see that at all now, except with the nice brands.
What the hell happened in the past ten years to not only change this situation but, apparently, to erase most people's memories of how to deal with oil in peanut butter?
