It’s about what I would expect from the kind of person who buys squeezy jelly.
I buy squeeze jelly because the campus-affiliated market that I have a meal plan for only sells jelly in squeeze bottles. Though it’s nice how it saves a spoon, it’s a bit of a pain to operate. Especially the grape flavor.
I guess I’ve always considered it poor form to let ingredient containers mix at all. The knife is already covered in peanut butter, so putting it in the jelly container would get a bit of peanut butter on the jelly, and that’s no good for some reason.
Also because I find it way easier to scoop jelly with a spoon than a knife.
I was at my moms house making my son a sandwich and she admonished me for using a knife in the jam. At first I thought she was worried about peanut allergies (non of our family have a that allergy), but then she claims that knives break up the pectin in jam and only spoons can scoop it without ruining it.
I use a knife in ours almost every day and have never had (good) jam go soupy.
I assume it’s just another bullish “tip” from social media.
It’s Welch’s though which actually tastes good and IIRC is owned by a growers collective not a megacorp.
Found this
National Grape Cooperative Association, a co-op of grape growers, since 1956
GRAPE-jelly in a squeezy, ketchup-style plastic bottle mixed with plastic bottle peanut butter in a standard-issue IKEA bowl, only then applied between two non-wholegrain, untoasted toasts.
Can someone add a YEAH, a guitar, an eagle and the US-American flag as effects?
Nope, that’s not American traditional, and you can’t put that concoction on us.
Also, it’s really a stretch to call peanut butter “infamous sugar cream”. It’s got like 3g of sugar per 30g peanut butter. That’s pretty close to just plain peanuts. It’s not Nutella with it’s 50% sugar content.
You avoid eating too much peanut butter because peanuts are basically little nuggets of oil with the minimum amount of fiber and protein required for them to be a solid.
Yeah, I remembered the PB sugar content wrong (I guess I was flabberghasted that they even added sugar in some PBs).
Yeah, to keep it from separating they remove some of the sugar and oil and replace it with ones that don’t separate so much. Molasses is a popular choice since it’s got the “liquid” consistency you need and no negative marketing connotations like hfcs does.
It’s one of the only cases I can think of where sugar isn’t being added to adjust the flavor, but for it’s chemical properties.
You can even do it at home. Blend peanuts, let it separate and pour off the oil, and add shortening and a splash of molasses. Maybe some salt to bring out the flavor. Reblend.
Not op, but absolutely yes. Toast first, apply PB and J while still warm. If you have a toaster oven, stack the bread so the inside stays soft but warm.
Just like witn fried PBJ, you should use less PB than usual, it can get larynx glueingly sticky if you use too much, ask me how I know. Self heimlich is worth knowing.
I like to do the opposite - toast the inside of the bread in butter, and leave the outside soft and untoasted. The pb gets melty and squidges out the sides a bit since it’s on the hot side of the bread, but you get the nice soft pillowy texture on the outside which is nicer on the roof of my mouth, so I accept the messy trade-off.
Square bread belongs in an upright toaster before applying any topping, always :)
TBH, I’ve never seen a toaster oven.
[Offtopic] TIL There’s even a movie about a toaster: The Brave Little Toaster 1987
I hear you. That said, Skippy makes a traditional (must stir) version in a glass jar. It’s decent, by our available standards (I’ve never had foreign pb). But the last time I bought Smuker’s strawberry spread it had hfcs instead of cane sugar. >:( So I went back to raw honey.
Peanut butter is actually less popular outside of the US than you would imagine, given how much of a staple it is here.
Countries that don’t grow a lot of peanuts tend to eat way fewer of them, and places that do, largely central and southeast Asia, tend to go more of a saucy direction with their peanuts, or chopped and crushed.
Having had the gamut of different peanut butters, I really don’t think the small amount of oil and molasses used to keep everything integrated is bringing down the quality. Needing to stir it doesn’t make it better for me.
I like that stirring means it’s not hydrogenated oil, it doesn’t have added sugar (probably salt, idk, I just like it), no added sweetness unless I add honey. Stirring it is a lot of work, but it is worth the better flavor and consistency, for my preferences. That said, right now I have some off brand, and an Aldi brand of natural (must stir) almond butter in my staple pantry.
ETA: oh yes, pad Thai is delicious.
I put some peanut butter on each slice, to “waterproof” it before applying the jelly. That way, the bread doesn’t get soggy and gross.
That’s as advanced as I get with my PB&J engineering. Forget this mixing nonsense.
I’ve found that gets rid of the gentle softness that I’m wanting out of a PBJ.
Grilled peanut butter sandwich is great though, but jelly demands soft and cold.
I love a grilled PB+Banana. Like a grilled cheese, fried in butter. They’re fantastic!
You don’t have to fully toast it. The bread doesn’t even have to brown. You just want to dry out the top layer a tiny bit.
Put 2 slices in the same side of the toaster. Then spread everything ont the toasted side. Melty goodness with soft outside.
You gotta let it sit on the windowsill for at least one to two weeks before eating it.
Every day we stray further from jod.
My biggest problem is that bottle of supposed jelly.
Artificial grape flavor is just the worst… And that’s from somebody who likes black licorice.
I take it you’re from the UK?
It’s jam, the spread for toast, not the wobbly dessert that shouldn’t go on toast.
It’s a liquid when it’s hot and it thickens into a spreadable gloop when it cools.
This is a cheaper brand meant for quick kids lunches, not a “high end” one. There’s nothing stopping anyone from putting a “good” one in a bottle, beyond it just Not Being Done.
