# So I drank peanut butter last night. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058 "2010-10-23T01:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/21 "2010-10-23T04:12:32Z")
You are a man, after my own heart. I have drunk peanut butter before, exactly as you described. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/22 "2010-10-23T04:28:39Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > You are a man, after my own heart. I have drunk peanut butter before, exactly as you described. I would say, “Be still my heart!”, but with my diet it will be still soon enough without encouragement. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/23 "2010-10-23T05:03:25Z")
You need [the peanut butter stirrer](http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=natural+peanut+butter+stirrer&hl=en&prmd=ivs&resnum=1&wrapid=tlif12878100213231&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=11361683650002944716&ei=82vCTLqcBs6s8Aahw-WkBg&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEoQ8wIwAA#). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/24 "2010-10-23T20:28:03Z")
I’ve drunk tahini. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/25 "2010-10-23T20:58:09Z")
Turning the jar over won’t prevent separation, but it \*will \*make stirring the oil back in a bit easier. The oil will separate to the “top”, which is now the bottom of the jar. Flip to open, and it stays there. With the pool of oil on the bottom of the jar when you open it, it can’t slop all over the edge and down the sides and all over your counter when you’re trying to stir it back in. You need to cut down with your knife through the solid part and lift the oil up (which is the direction it wants to go anyhow), instead of trying to force the oil down. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/26 "2010-10-23T21:07:50Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Turning the jar over won’t prevent separation, but it \*will \*make stirring the oil back in a bit easier. The oil will separate to the “top”, which is now the bottom of the jar. Flip to open, and it stays there. With the pool of oil on the bottom of the jar when you open it, it can’t slop all over the edge and down the sides and all over your counter when you’re trying to stir it back in. You need to cut down with your knife through the solid part and lift the oil up (which is the direction it wants to go anyhow), instead of trying to force the oil down. In my experience this makes it worse. The oil does indeed end up on the bottom of the jar, but when you stick your knife down into the block of peanut to stir, the oil squirts up around the edges under pressure. Best to leave the oil on top, so it will sink into the slashes you make with your knife. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/27 "2010-10-23T21:56:29Z")
> [@emmaliminal](#): > > Often homogenized or stabilized, yes. Non-old-fashioned or hippie-natural peanut butter has a lot in it besides peanuts. Because peanuts contain a lot of oil.Yeah, I have. The “other stuff” (ground peanut solids) is stiff and unspreadable unless you heat it, and it REALLY sticks to the roof of your mouth. You need **twice as much milk** to go with your sandwich. I agreed with this post until I got to the bolded part… then I kind of went **hurk** ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/28 "2010-10-23T21:59:07Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > I agreed with this post until I got to the bolded part… then I kind of went **hurk** I’m sorry, ma’am, I’ll have to bring you in; it’s a federal offense not to drink milk with a PB&J. Also, it’s unAmerican, ya commie. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/29 "2010-10-23T23:12:32Z")
I can’t drink milk. It makes me want to hurl. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/30 "2010-10-24T00:52:05Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > In my experience this makes it worse. The oil does indeed end up on the bottom of the jar, but when you stick your knife down into the block of peanut to stir, the oil squirts up around the edges under pressure. > > Best to leave the oil on top, so it will sink into the slashes you make with your knife. > > YMMV Instead of a knife, try using a carving fork. Longer handle, plus the two tines make dual slashes in the peanut butter. And, as a bonus, you can lick the peanut butter off the carving fork, whereas you will get scolded by little children for licking the knife. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/31 "2010-10-24T00:58:35Z")
I am lucky enough to have no children to exchange scoldings with. And I would have to buy a carving fork, because stirring peanut butter is about as close as I get to carving. Though I do have bigger and sharper knives. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058/32 "2010-10-24T01:17:31Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I am lucky enough to have no children to exchange scoldings with. And I would have to buy a carving fork, because stirring peanut butter is about as close as I get to carving. Though I do have bigger and sharper knives. I’m not even sure where the carving fork came from, but I’ve never called it that. It’s always been the peanut butter fork. As in, “Hey, Kiddo, get me the big knife and the peanut butter fork so I can carve up this roast.” Plus it’s used a lot more often for peanut butter than for roast. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-drank-peanut-butter-last-night/558058.md?page=1)