Like 57% of those who eat peanut butter, I prefer creamy peanut butter to crunchy. So imagine my horror when I opened a new jar of peanut butter to find that I had mistakenly bought crunchy! I don’t believe in returning things to the grocery store once they’re opened (if the mistake is mine, that is), so I resolved to slowly consume the vile substance over time.
This resolution proved to be too much for me, even for this Lenten season, so I started to consider alternatives. I could not give the peanut butter away (already opened) nor could I force it on my family, so I wondered, would it be possible to turn crunchy peanut butter into creamy? According to the Internet, the answer is yes — just a matter of running it through a blender or food processor. We don’t own the former, but the latter we do own, a throwback to the days when we fantasized about making our own baby food. (Of course, our two youngest children steadfastly refused to eat baby food when they were ready for it; the older of the two might have starved if not for avocados. But I digress.)
I can report that yes, the Internet is correct — you can turn crunchy peanut butter into creamy with a food processor. To say that it worked like a champ is an understatement — the oversized peanut chunks were swiftly crushed into nothingness. And the whole process only took about five minutes, three of which were spent spooning the peanut butter out of the jar and into the food processor.
Another public service announcement from the Peregrinator.