On 9/6/2012 10:47 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:47:25 -0500, >
> wrote:
>
>> l, not -l wrote:
>>> On 6-Sep-2012, > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why is it so hard to find? Every brand has some form of sugar as the
>>>> 2nd ingredient after peanuts. Even the "natural" pb's are "peanuts,
>>>> sugar, palm oil, and salt" (they took out some of the good peanut oil
>>>> and replaced it with nasty greasy palm oil) I guess it's natural
>>>> because they used sugar instead of HFCS, and palm oil instead of
>>>> hydrogenated soybean oil. Sweetened PB works just fine for cooking, but
>>>> not for eating on a cracker. I used to make my own, (the new blender
>>>> made me think of it again) the trick will be finding salted dry roasted
>>>> peanuts without a lot of MSG and yeast extract and dextrose and crap
>>>> added.
>>>
>>> I recommend Smucker's Natural, I prefer the chunky variety. "Ingredients:
>>> Peanuts, contains 1% or less of salt."
>>>
>>> When bought, there is oil separation and it needs to be stirred vigorously
>>> to reincorporate. Refrigeration tends to keep separation from reocurring.
>>
>>
>> Thanks, I will look for it. Meanwhile, I bought a pound of unsalted
>> dry-roasted peanuts to grind. Not sure how much salt to add (about 4.5
>> grams?) it probably needs to be that really fine popcorn salt.
>
> Unless you feel you need to play kitchen there's no point, unless you
> don't mind ruining a lot of peanuts. Dry roasted won't make very good
> peanut butter, it'll be much too dry. You need to use in the shell
> roasted peanuts, salted or not. I've tried grinding peanuts, it
> doesn't turn out as good as what you can buy, texture or flaver wise.
> I'm not a big peanut butter consumer but when I do indulge it's
> Smucker's Natural. When I want real peanut flavor I eat in shell
> peanuts, I buy these in 3 lb or 5 lb size, whichever is on sale at my
> local market:
> http://www.hamptonfarms.com/products...n-farms-brand/
>
> http://www.walmart.com/ip/Smucker-s-...26-oz/10308155

Hmmm, it says they have that in stock at my local WMT. I will look for
it next time I go there (about once a month for dogfood) Thanks!

Bob