/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>8 dollerydoos for a jar of peanut butter

at what point is premium peanut butter not even worth the price when all you're paying for is salt and peanuts?

>>16699791
It's CHF but yes expensive imports is the price we pay for conserving our local primary food production.

>>16699798
That's a question I'm trying to answer myself, and why I made this thread. I've had lots of different peanut butters made from only peanuts and salt, and they vary wildly in taste and consistency. The main difference is roasted vs unroasted. Organic peanut butters tend to be unroasted in my experience. Dunno why. I'd love to make my own in the near future and see how it compares to store-bought. Might shed some light on what the variables are that affect different outcomes.

>>16699805
>conserving our local primary food production
So you have a strategic local food reserve you're stockpiling, and in the meantime you're overpaying for a foreign import that nobody in the source country has ever heard of? Interesting.
I'm guessing a local company makes it with imported nuts, or they purchase generic and relabel. That's probably some top dollar Clover Valley dollar store PB.

>>16699833
Nevermind, completely overlooked the Michigan Co. on the label, just saw the Virginia peanuts.

Just make your own.

make your own if you can
otherwise buy costco

>>16699786
PBFit/PB2

>>16699833
>So you have a strategic local food reserve you're stockpiling, and in the meantime you're overpaying for a foreign import that nobody in the source country has ever heard of? Interesting.
No, we eat mostly locally farmed greens and meats as opposed to other European countries who import Danish butter, anemic Dutch vegetables and rotten Argentinian beef. Springs onions are coming off the shelves soon and I won't be able to buy them until the next harvest. It can be quite annoying but it's also cool to be more in touch with the seasons and the land.

>>16699844
>>16699863
Will definitely make my own at some point. Is it a game changer?
Never heard of Costco but if I can find them I'll try them.

>>16699786
Only the purest of them all

Seriously who /crunchy/ here ?

>>16700105
>pure
>it's mostly soy, corn sugars, and hydrogenated vegetable oils
>barely has enough peanut content to be legally called peanut butter

>>16699786
OK GUYS I THINK YOU MAY BE GETTING SCAMMED. Ingredients for reglar Jif peanut butter: Made From Roasted Peanuts, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed And Soybean), Mono And Diglycerides, Molasses, Sugar, Salt.

There are only 3g of added sugar in Jif.

JIF SIMPLY NATURAL:

ade From Peanuts, Sugar, Palm Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Salt, Molasses.

So it looks like Natural Jif uses slightly more expensive oil (which is solid at room temp) rather than emulsifyers like in regular Jif.

There's nothing on an ingredients label here that should give anyone any pause at all.

>>16700212
according to Kraft, the regular peanut butter peanut content is a trade secret but is between 75 and 100 percent peanuts. A natural peanut butter is usually 90. Kraft sells an only peanuts one, it sucks.

>>16700382

KNEEL.

>>16700231
Nigger the peanut butter I buy has one ingredient: peanuts. Jif has a fucking weird texture I'm not buying the 2% claim either plus it costs a lot more

>>16700238
Fucking hell, so their peanut spread is 25% sugar and soybean oil.

>>16700415
> it costs a lot more

lol that's literally 2.25 usd here in america. And yeah the 2% claim is correct USA is pretty strict about food labeling.

>>16700464
most of that 25% is likely soybean oil. It looks like the Kraft stuff only has 1g extra sugar so it is so smooth because of the soybean oil. Corn Malodextrin is an emulsifier.

>>16700391
>refrigerate after opening

>>16700393
you had me Adams....you lost me at creamy get that chunky out here senpai

>>16699791
Blame the Dutch.

>>16701787
what have we done?

>>16699786
homemade.

>>16699786
*brutally mogs your favorite peanut butter in both taste and nutrition*

>>16700382
>>16700391
Vile

>>16700231
Yeah I buy the jif natural brand and have 0 complaints.
Costs like maybe 3? Dollars for a standard large container of it and the ingredients are really just peanuts.
Also I unironically don't like the fancy gourmet peanut butter that I've tried, the consistency just makes it impractical and taste off, especially when the fat separates

>>16699786
I've never had a peanut butter brand come close to Teddie's

Skippy, Honey Roasted Nut (Creamy or Super Chunk both good depending on use)

>>16699912
Costco is a wholesale store. Their item brand is Kirkland — only sold at Costco. It's cheap, but some of their items are pretty good. You'll just be buying in larger than normal quantities.

>>16703337
quick rundown on this?

>>16699786
>buy peanuts
>toss into food processor
>process until smooth
>profit