Peanut butter and butter poll

[ceejay]

How do you like your peanut butter? "Normal"/sugary (aka Jif) or natural (aka peanut paste per ironbaby)

How do you store your butter? #Counterbutter or #fridgebutter

We want to know!!!!

[mustloveerica]

I don't mind the taste of natural but I hate peanut butter I have to stir before eating. So I prefer Jif.

Cupboard butter 4lyfe!!!

[butlerfan]

So if I keep one stick out but rest in the fridge is that considered counter butter than?

[ceejay]

No special snowflakes here.

If you had to only store your butter in the fridge or on the counter (and had to pick ONE location only), what would you pick?

[♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪]

Aug 25, 2016 10:57:01 GMT -5 butlerfan said:

So if I keep one stick out but rest in the fridge is that considered counter butter than?

Yes. No one keeps 6 sticks of butter on their counter.

[ohinvrtedworld]

Regular PB, counter butter.

#murrica

[♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪]

[Deleted]

Regular pb and fridge butter. We don't buy sticks, only tubs so that might be why we're fridge people.

[PirateCat]

Natural peanut butter and refrigerated (unsalted) butter.

[daisy818]

Question: I assume counter butter people use salted butter? 95% of what I use stick butter for is baking, so I only get unsalted, and unsalted counter butter seems like a recipe for food poisoning. But maybe it's not?

[doodler]

Regular PB and fridge butter. The real debate in my household is chunky vs. smooth.

[PirateCat]

Aug 25, 2016 11:39:57 GMT -5 daisy818 said:

Question: I assume counter butter people use salted butter? 95% of what I use stick butter for is baking, so I only get unsalted, and unsalted counter butter seems like a recipe for food poisoning. But maybe it's not?

I believe it is mainly the high fat content that prevents bacterial growth, although the salt content probably also plays a role. 

[emilie]

I think the real question is - where do you store your peanut butter? I keep mine in the fridge (along with my butter-butter) and a friend told me that was weird.

[♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪]

Aug 25, 2016 13:40:10 GMT -5 @pineappleoranges said:

Aug 25, 2016 10:58:52 GMT -5 ♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪ said:

Yes. No one keeps 6 sticks of butter on their counter.

Except when I'm making a cake be like to start with room temperature butter

Yes, that's for prepping.

[icedtea]

Natural and fridge butter.

I also hate stirring, but they do make no-stir naturals. And there's a special stirrer you can get on Amazon that makes it easier.

[BabyStandish]

[Rama]

Dudes, just give me peanut butter and no one gets hurt.

[agm04]

emilie if i buy the kind that separates, i keep it in the fridge so i don't have to re-stir it every time.

for the record, i buy the natural skippy, so i guess i'm hybrid? i voted natural but the kind that needs stirring = sloshing oil on the container/my counter = anger = hulk. no good.

[marshian]

I also voted natural but I get the natural JIF. Does that count?

Per the FDA and other food websites, butter is fine on the counter for a "limited time" which most interpret as a few days. I don't go through it fast enough to leave it out without worrying about contamination or bacterial growth.

Different story if I'm baking, and then it's always amusing to have my H come home and ask if all the butter softening on the counter is going in one cake. Yes, yes it is.

[Deleted]

Kraft peanut butter, and counter butter. DH likes to have real butter for his bagels, so we keep a half stick in a covered dish on the counter on week days.

[ceejay]

Well, this super scientific poll is now over! The vast majority of us are normal PB, fridge butter people. Within both types of peanut butter, the percentage of counter butter people are between 20-30% (29% counter butter for normal PB, 21% counter butter for natural PB). There isn't a correlation between natural PB and counter butter.

I'm tempted to analyze the data further in my statistical software, but then everyone would know what I nerd I am...