# Peanut Butter **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 15, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545 "2022-02-15T17:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545/21 "2022-02-15T22:36:07Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Buttered toast with peanut butter is one thing, the melted butter on the toast loses some of it’s creamy flavor. But lots of cold butter on bread with peanut butter is another experience entirely! The creamy sweet unctuousness of the butter contrasts with the sticky salty heft of the peanut butter. put the peanut butter on the toast first, (I prefer toasted english muffin) and you get a mix of melted butter/melted peanut butter swirled with unmelted butter/unmelted peanut butter. Best of all worlds for me! ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545/22 "2022-02-15T22:42:23Z")
PB with salted butter on a toasted English muffin. PB with mayo and some crisp iceberg lettuce Ham and cheese with butter/lard when a random Grandma would make us sandwiches to take fishing. It was always a Grandma and it was always weird. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545/23 "2022-02-15T22:44:57Z")
I never dare to do this, but yeah, there’s something magical about butter + another fatty spread. See also: buttered (toasted) bagels with cream cheese. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545/24 "2022-02-15T22:49:31Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > to me, peanut butter and butter is a great combo. > > Even better to put it on toast. Yep. You have to be quick, though, so the butter and peanut butter both melt. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545/25 "2022-02-15T22:50:23Z")
5 seconds in the microwave after spreading assures decent but not excess melt ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545/26 "2022-02-15T22:53:10Z")
I was thinking air fryer to keep the crunch of the toast ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545/27 "2022-02-15T23:08:06Z")
Yucch. If you’re gonna do this why not mayonnaise? Or schmaltz? Peanut butter on toasted cinnamon brioche. Nothing more or less is needed. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545/28 "2022-02-16T04:47:49Z")
By default, I’m a PB (no jam, occasionally honey) on toasted, sliced bread - a hearty honey wheat by choice. I -have- had buttered toasted PB sandwiches, but only when I’m toasting bread on a skillet, at which time I’m using the melted butter to brown the toast more than as an additional flavor. To me, the extra flavor comes as much from the extra salt in my salted butter as the butter itself. And I’ve done the same thing with bagels which were then served with cream cheese. So I find it a small, minor flavor addition but one generally not worth the effort. Now if I’m browning the cut surface of a bagel in a skillet that I just cooked bacon in, prior to adding cream cheese, that’s a hell yes. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545/29 "2022-02-16T14:46:18Z")
My mom would put butter and then peanut butter and jelly on the bread for our sandwiches. I HATED it. I couldn’t stand how I could see the butter swirled under the peanut butter. I don’t remember what it tasted like, it was just how it looked that made me squeamish. I finally told her I didn’t like it. Now that I’ve been making my own sandwiches for about 50 years, I do not use butter on a peanut butter sandwich. I’ll put butter and peanut butter together on toast, English muffin or bagel. But the butter has to be melted into the bread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-butter/959545.md?page=1)