"Messalina" > wrote in message
om...
> "glas" > wrote in message
>...
> > "Deborah G. Buckner" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Dave Hill wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And by the way, for people who mentioned peanut butter--- most
> > store-bought
> > > > brands really don't need to be refrigerated. Really! And if you do
> > > > refrigerate peanut butter, just as some kind of obsessive thing, be
very
> > > > careful about microwaving it to "make it soft". Many brands of
peanut
> > > > butter use a foil seal. Unless you carefully remove every last
molecule
> > of
> > > > foil when you first open the jar--- which is nearly impossible--- it
can
> > > > spark and arc in the microwave. Peanut butter also burns easily.
> > >
> > > The Smuckers "all-natural" peanut butter label says to "refrigerate
> > > after opening." We put that in the microwave to soften it, but I
don't
> > > think it has a foil seal around it. The sugary, preservative peanut
> > > butters (Jif, Peter Pan, etc.) stay in the cabinet and seem to last
> > forever.
> > >
> > > Deb
> >
> > The main reason for refrigerating natural peanut butter is to prevent
the
> > oil from seperating out again after it has been stirred up. I never put
mine
> > in the fridge but have to stir it up a lot.
> >
> > chrissy
>
>
> Why don't you pour it off instead? Do you really need that extra oil?
>
> Mez

It's not extra oil, it's the oil that makes it the right consistency peanut
butter. It separates because it wasn't homogenized before packaging. Not
sure it would taste right if you poured it off...




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