As any convenience-seeking American knows, the bane of natural peanut butter is its tendency to separate into an unspreadable sludge of crushed peanut and an eager-to-spill pond of oil. You have to stir the two together to get back to the peanut butter texture you’ve come to expect from the hybridized brands. Skippy says they’ve solved the problem, but based on the two jars one customer bought, they’re plain nuts (wocka wocka!).
Rick points out that on their website, they also claim “no oily mess,” which we’d like to contrast with this photo Rick sent in:
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Natural PB is the BEST! A friend turned me onto it and haven’t looked back. I love the ingredients: Peanuts, Salt.
That’s it! Look at the ingredients of your processed peanut “butter” and you’ll notice a huge difference. (Little known fact: most peanut “butter” is really peanut “paste” due to the USDA definition of peanut butter.) Source (PDF)
Dear Rick:
If your biggest gripe in this world is having a little oil on top of your PB, I want your life, dude.
I can’t believe it’s come to this level of whining. Next, you’ll be complaining that when you poop, you have to wipe your ass.
@sylvie calls shotgun!!: Since when is posting on the Consumerist a reflection of someone’s “biggest gripe”? It can still be an annoyance to someone without it being the worst thing ever.
The bottom line is that you either stir, or they have to add some crap in the PB to prevent separation.
In most PBs, that means a goodly portion of hydrogenated badness and a bunch of other junk.
For skippy that means a minimal amount of palm oil. Id rather have peanuts,salt in my PB but you can’t have it all.
Skippy seems to have the best compromise between having to stir and adding a bunch of crap into the PB.
The Tillamook yogurt that I had for lunch also says that it’s pre-stirred, but I still stirred it when I opened it. There’s always a little bit of separation, but I figure a few seconds worth of stirring is worth it for a smooth result.
I bought the Skippy’s natural PB once. It didn’t separate too much, but the consistency was so sloppy that the PB would drip out of the sandwich while I was eating it – ICK! I threw out the jar half full.
My local grocery store (Publix) usually has fresh ground peanut butter in small tubs – ingredients = peanuts & salt. I have considered getting food processor so I can make it at home.